Elevate Your Agency Credentials
Elevate Your Agency Credentials Elevate your agency credentials as they are often the gateway to building relationships with potential clients. Yet, like a neglected pair of shoes, they sometimes fail to shine. In the competitive world of agency business development, standing out requires more than the same old presentation. Here’s a fresh, four-step approach to[...]
Lead Generation Myths
Lead Generation Myths Your Agency Should Ignore Lead generation is critical for agency business development, but misinformation and lead generation myths can often hold teams back from taking effective action. Let’s debunk some common myths and help your creative agency, PR agency, or digital marketing team approach new business outreach with confidence. Myth #1: Prospects[...]
Perfect Your Agency Pitch
Perfect Your Agency Pitch: Proven Strategies for New Business Success In the competitive world of agency business development, being able to perfect your agency pitch is essential to standing out, building relationships, and converting prospects into long-term clients. Whether you’re in creative agency business development, PR new business development, or working within shopper marketing, these[...]
How to Write New Business Emails
How to Write New Business Emails That Get Responses: It’s All About the Research When sending cold emails to introduce your agency to potential clients, the quality of your research can significantly boost your response rate. That crucial first email sets the tone for your relationship—either presenting you as an informed, knowledgeable professional or as[...]
The Art of Asking Effective Questions
In the realm of agency business development, particularly within creative, digital, PR, experiential, and shopper marketing sectors, mastering the art of asking effective questions during new business meetings is crucial. Manifest, a renowned new business agency, offers valuable insights on this topic. 1. Conduct Thorough Research Before any new business meeting, it’s imperative to delve[...]
Maintaining a Robust New Business Pipeline
As we step into 2025, maintaining a robust new business pipeline is crucial for sustained growth. Here are actionable strategies to enhance your pipeline: 1. Develop and Share Case Studies Reflect on recent successes and craft detailed case studies that highlight the challenges faced and solutions provided. Share these on your website, social media, and[...]
Strategies to Help Your Agency Win New Business
Here are some proven strategies to help your agency win new business. Securing new clients is the lifeblood of any agency of course. Whether you specialise in marketing, design, PR, or tech solutions, the ability to attract and win new business is what keeps your agency thriving. While every agency has its own approach, some[...]
Chemistry to Pitch
We tell our clients that they should expect 25% of meetings to convert from a chemistry to pitch opportunity but there is a huge discrepancy between the best and the worst. So here are some tips on how to get the most from the chemistry meetings we can fix for you. How to Secure That[...]
Re-engaging With a Potential Client
After a promising initial meeting it’s common for communication to wane and re-engaging with a potential client can be challenging, especially when there’s no new information to share. However, maintaining contact is crucial for nurturing these relationships. Here are strategies to stay connected with prospects, even when updates are scarce: 1. Conduct Thorough Research Before[...]
Recruiting a Business Development Director
Many agency owners shy away from the term “sales,” viewing it as a necessary evil they’d rather avoid which leads to them recruiting a Business Development Director (BDD) to handle sales, allowing them to focus on agency operations. However, securing the ideal candidate can be challenging, time-consuming, and doesn’t always yield the desired outcomes. Contrary[...]