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Sales
An agency is nothing without clients, and interesting and worthwhile things to do for them.
Without that you have an expensive and tiring hobby rather than a business.
Most agencies have a caveman-like approach to finding clients though — get hungry, hunt, eat, sleep, repeat.
This can lead to hard, stressful, or dangerous, times when the hunting is poor and you have a lot of mouths to feed.
Healthy agencies design an approach that provides a constant flow of clients and work.
They have a farmer’s approach to feeding their business. Sow, nurture, harvest.
In this section of the playbook, we’ll cover everything it takes to nurture a reliable and sustainable flow of clients and income.
This includes: developing your offer, presenting yourselves to your market, gaining attention, building relationships, winning new business, and building ongoing client relationships.
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Know your audience
Healthy creative agencies realise they have a lot in common with other creative industries — movies, music, theatre, art and so on.
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Serve to be famously useful
Serve your audiences usefully and you create a smooth on ramp into doing business with you.
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Nurture valuable connections
Build selected relationships that deliver real value both ways, including giving you a chance to shape future sales for success.
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Present a compelling offer
Showing your ideal clients what you can do for them and why they need that.
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Generate opportunity flow
Making your sales process reliable and rewarding.
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Convert ideal opportunities
Turn great opportunities into ideal ones during the sales process, and lead clients to saying yes with excitement.
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Launch new sales to suceed
There's plenty you can do between closing a sale and starting work, in order to give your work the best chance of success.
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Multiply opportunities
Whether you win or lose an opportunity, you can use your work on it to generate other opportunities.