Happy Anniversary

A year ago today, I left an amazing company where I managed a talented group of leaders and marketers. We represented one of the great American brands with a remarkable experiential marketing program that I wrote with an extremely brilliant Account Director. I loved the work, and those around me did too. Then the agency life got in the way. While our program offered the best possible results and return for the client, the SVP…

Starting the Conversation and Building Relationships

Starting the Conversation and Building Relationships

Experiential Marketing, we start the conversation that continues in the digital space. We build the foundations for a relationship and create consideration. We create memories, thoughts, feelings, and emotion associated with your brand. We give you more things to talk about online vs. your product or service. We create real, genuine and authentic content; true engagements. Spero Patricios defined “experiential” as “engaging your prospect’s senses to understand the essence of your brand.” It’s using the…

Case Study – Lead Program

Case Study – Lead Program

Any lead-driven business, with a sales force (internal or independent), wants to grow and see a dramatic Return on Investment in all marketing efforts.  Well, The Rocking Star (TRS) has solutions… Most business is written by working the phones, from a walk in, referrals, or by paying some random online service to send you leads. And we all know there are problems with buying leads: The same leads go for 30 different sales people or…

Big Trouble for Big Conglomerate Agencies

Big Trouble for Big Conglomerate Agencies

Big trouble for big conglomerate agencies with Big Brands leaving for privately held firms that specialized in specific areas of marketing. The era of being the end all be all, 360 degrees, we can produce everything approach is going out the window. The revolution has begun, and privately held firms get ready to start capturing more market share as the Agency of Record models gets tossed to the wayside. Big agencies More concerned with agencies…