Small Agency Diary

You Can't Get New Business if Prospective Clients Can't Find You

You Can't Get New Business if Prospective Clients Can't Find You

Your agency has to decide: Continue to chase business the old-fashioned way, or embrace the idea of getting known in Internet searches by prospective clients.

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What's a Speaker to Do When the Audience Is Tuned Out on Twitter?

What's a Speaker to Do When the Audience Is Tuned Out on Twitter?

Speakers and meeting planners need to create content and conditions adapted for audiences distracted by mobile devices.

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Final Deadline for Small Agency Awards: May 15

Advertising Age's is accepting entries for its 2013 Small Agency Awards. Now in its fifth year, the awards recognize the power of being small and independent.

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Do You Really Know What It's Like to Join Your Own Shop?

Do You Really Know What It's Like to Join Your Own Shop?

To give new hires the best chance for success at your agency, know its culture and give fast feedback.

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New Deadline for Ad Age's Small Agency Awards: May 8th

Advertising Age's is accepting entries for its 2013 Small Agency Awards. Now in its fifth year, the awards recognize the power of being small and independent.

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Loving Your Dream Job? Delivering at the Top of Your Game? Leave.

Loving Your Dream Job? Delivering at the Top of Your Game? Leave.

A creative career offers a chance to realize personal and professional dreams, but getting there can demand you take a great leap of faith.

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Being Small Agency of the Year Means Sometimes Having to Say 'We're Sorry'

Being Small Agency of the Year Means Sometimes Having to Say 'We're Sorry'

Being named Small Agency of the Year presented a lot of opportunities to pitch -- many of which we said no to.

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Across the Hudson, at Least the Lunatics Don't Run the Asylum

Across the Hudson, at Least the Lunatics Don't Run the Asylum

A Big Apple advertising veteran shifts to New Jersey, and finds agencies kinder and gentler, but still fun.

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Dan Wieden to Deliver Keynote at Small Agency Conference in Portland

Dan Wieden to Deliver Keynote at Small Agency Conference in Portland

Co-founder of Wieden & Kennedy joins Ad Age's Small Agency Awards and Conference this summer.

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When Start Up Means Start Over: Chucking the Cushy for the Cramped

When Start Up Means Start Over: Chucking the Cushy for the Cramped

Jumping to a small start-up, an ad-agency veteran once again gets to do the hands-on creative work he loves.

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Savvy PR Firms Could Soon Rule Native Ads and Social Campaigns

Savvy PR Firms Could Soon Rule Native Ads and Social Campaigns

Some have already decided that "native ads" are conceptually the same as press releases that look like news stories. It's a natural fit.

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Small Agency Awards 2013: Ad Age Is Accepting Entries

The call for entries for Advertising Age's 2013 Small Agency Awards is open. Now in its fifth year, the Small Agency Awards recognize the power of being small and independent.

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Who Cares What Coca-Cola Has Learned?

Who Cares What Coca-Cola Has Learned?

Just because Coca-Cola hasn't found a correlation between social buzz and short-term sales doesn't mean you won't.

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A Word From the Slopes: Push Past the Comfortable Trail

A Word From the Slopes: Push Past the Comfortable Trail

To grow and evolve, ad agency leaders have to push their shops to places they've never been.

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Nobody Really Cares About Your Brand

Nobody Really Cares About Your Brand

A brand will succeed if it can get to the gut of the consumer -- not with product details, but by proving it's culturally relevant.

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How Much Time Can You Really Devote to the Latest Social App?

How Much Time Can You Really Devote to the Latest Social App?

I've already maxed out on personal time I can devote to content creation without endangering my work or relationships.

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What Drives Ad-Agency CEOs Crazy

What Drives Ad-Agency CEOs Crazy

What bugs you most? Six agency CEOs reveal their particular obsessions and pet peeves about their business.

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If You've Got Agency Goals, the Staff Needs to Know What They Are

If You've Got Agency Goals, the Staff Needs to Know What They Are

How many agencies share annual goals with the entire staff? It's a big help if you do.

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A Spy in the Agency-Review Process

An agency chief joins a committee to select an agency for a nonprofit initiative. You'd be shocked at what factors tip the hiring decision.

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When You're Brainstorming, Know the Two Kinds of Silence

Brainstorming works best when quiet moments aren't awkward silences, but become a time to think.

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