Notes on agency growth, profitability, board leadership, exit preparation, and MarTech strategy.
The traditional non-executive director model was never built for agency founders. Here is why we rebuilt AgencyNXD around on-demand, board-level advice.
In 2015 I left Latitude, an agency I’d been a part of for twelve and a half years. In fact, my entire career at that point was in the agency world.
I’ve judged a number of awards in the digital sector over the years and thought I’d share one of the over-arching challenges encountered in the process.
While recently discussing ideal profit margins, I was reminded of this simple doodle from Comms professional Stephen Waddington:
Over the years I’ve noticed a few agencies that created tech products and then span them out as a separate business. Last week I took to Linkedin to see how wide-scale an occurrence this actually was.
I’ve recently found myself talking about focus, again and again, like the proverbial broken record, so I thought I’d capture three ways that you can increase the focus in your business.
Two and a half years ago I signed on for my first Non Exec Director (NED, or NXD if you’re cool…I’m not) position, as Chairman of Ruler Analytics. Since then I’ve worked with a number of agencies…
I had the pleasure of catching up with Channel Marketing expert, Stewart Townsend, last week and thought I’d share some of my/our takeaways.
While not as popular as my “ greener grass” post, this month’s pondering about the need for an office drew a fair amount of commentary.
Following a number of conversations with agency owners and tech companies, where the subject of junior staff retention came up repeatedly, I took to LinkedIn with the following post:
Most business leaders know that lifelong learning is an essential habit for personal development but in an industry where the majority of our learning will most likely come from online sources, I…