- Quick, run out and sign up for a Facebook, Twitter & Youtube account. Hurry!
- Disjointed Marketing Efforts & Dead-End Websites
- Tough Times - Tough Marketing. Invest in Your Customer, be Creative and Do More with Less.
- Beware of the RFP! Get over your giddyness and take a closer look at your RFP’s
- Get Paid to Think - not task.
- We are looking to appoint a marketing firm. Could you put together a proposal?
- The Communication Process - Importance of Educating the Client
- Introducing New Concepts:Communicating Value to Clients
- Kenny Rogers and His Marketing Genius
- Marketing & Creative Consultants - Are We Doing Our Job?
- Helping Your Cause | Helping Clients Prepare for their Marketing Project
- Dealing With Client Delays and Extended Timelines
- Top Eight People to Watch Out For in Creative Projects
- Maintaining the Upper Hand: Don’t Send That Email!
- Tone of Voice | Make Like a Pilot, Speak Easy and Gain Trust
- Customer Service, Attitudes and THE Recession
- The Fire Under your Ass and Creativity - They Go Together like Peas and Carrots
- Pondering Inbound Projects - A quick study for an Agency
- The Website is Down! All interactive agencies will love this one.
- How to NOT be a Jack-ass during the client-agency introduction process
- Clients, contractors, designers & developers…will always busier than you
- 2+2=3 | Scoping Projects and Compensation - Tales from the Dark Side
- Internet Marketing | Design Industry Truisms meets Murphy’s Laws
- Need a Design Quote ASAP!
- Bad Client Stories From the Front Lines
Ok, so if you’ve read the posts in others sections you may think that we have it out for all clients. This is certainly not the case. Amidst the many bad clients, there are also good clients that allow us to form a healthy, long-term relationship with the services we provide. The ’Villains‘ section will hopefully help educate prospective clients on how to approach an agency - the things you should know, suggestions that we can give you that might make the overall process much easier for both parties.
The most important requirement that you need to be a good client is that you must let the service provider do their job (assuming that you have chosen someone other than your neice, or son, or close friend to tackle your marketing efforts). You know your business, we know ours. But this does not mean that you know how to properly shoot a commercial, or design a logo, create a brochure or get people to sign up or purchase your product online. If you are looking to hire someone to produce your ideas, your way, this is ok, but you’ll need communicate this. Also, if this is the case, you should not be hiring an agency - but an independent contractor to do this.
There are many tid bits of information that we few, we happy few, can bequeath to you. Check back with SP and we’ll try to post some good information for you.





