How common is being told to lie to clients about the number of current staff or about the abilities of current staff? For example, promising services that no one at the agency is able to do?

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back in normal office days, our agency used to force people (including literally random people who dont even work there) to sit at the most visible areas in the office to 'look' more busy and full when a prospective client comes to check out the office lol. its all about perception and lies.

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Another reason why I love working from home

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Are the clients asking about it specifically? Like did someone show them a scope and staff plan and they asked about a person/position that doesn't exist? I work on the new biz team and we complete a staff plan with what we have in-house and then start our resource manager on sourcing freelance as a stop gap until the project is done or we can bring someone on full time

Yes, clients are specifically asking about it! They have asked for certain services or have called out specific job titles (for instance, requesting XYZ title to be put on the project) that we don’t have at the agency.

On top of that, we’re told to always say our creative team is larger than what it is to both current and prospective clients.

Is your agency considering outside vendors to add to your numbers? Are they saying they could support the client w those roles because they will find a freelancer/team to pull in when the work materializes/gets won? I feel like that isn't too uncommon for agencies.

ehh I thought this was commonplace? just the typical "white lie"

Agree that white lies happen all the time! But what we’re lying about definitely feels beyond a white lie — the clients are asking about specific employees we simply do not have, never had and aren’t even hiring for

Hahah all the time

That’s Agency 101

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