I just started an agency with a strategy partner. We are looking for good examples of small agencies that are positioning themselves around strategy, brand, and advertising capabilities in clear and interesting ways. Who’s standing out and doing it right?

Is there a special title at your company for a Project Manager that works on product development and not an IT project manager?

An example might include launching a new product from conception through form writing, rating, filing, programming, training, and implementation, or the transfer of products from an acquisitions writing company to ours.

Anyone here from the DMV? Looking for bars or a crowd to watch sports with - Ravens, wizards, caps, and UMD basketball

Hiring for an agile coach at a global tech company, fully remote if that strikes your fancy but we have offices all over, would be supporting the CIO (Trust & Technology org). Amazing opportunity to make a big impact and room for growth. DM me if interested.

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McK 🐠 can you work in PEPI practice in any office? Anyone in PEPI in the Midwest offices willing to chat? I’m currently in a T2 firm PE practice.

Salary range for lead analyst (band 28) non tech?

For a SAP BODS consultant with 7 years of experience, what should be the package in current market?

Those of you who have left a firm, do you still keep in touch with any of your former supervisors, via email, happy hour, or otherwise? How long did you wait to re establish contact? I’m in a small market and worry about perception at my current firm. TIA

Any best tips/ step by step practices to grooming a product roadmap? I inherited one and it’s been difficult grooming it. Also a new PM. Do I start by looking at epics’ urgency and then dependencies? I know what needs to be done.. I just haven’t gotten down a good system to do it. Any advice helps!

What is everyone’s salary and what do you guys do?

Does Globant terminates the employment of certain trainees after their probation(3 Months) based on their performance in the training period? Some of the fresher trainees were laid off this morning without giving a notice or reason.

We were told that the probation period is a training period & not an elimination one. It was shocking as a few of those trainees were actually good.

Anyone have any killer quotes / resources / thoughts for framing the role of a creative brief to a client who has a tendency to get lost in details and soften language?

I’m a senior planner leading one brand and there’s a new strategist on the team working on a sister brand. They’ve been asking for every strategy deck I’ve made on that brand as an example to go by to inform the thinking/flow on the sister brand. Also because I mentioned it went well with client when they ask. All for sharing thinking w/ the team & I know we feel imposter syndrome to varying degrees, but I also feel like it’s good for planners to find their own voice/style/flow. Thoughts?

Hello fishes. I'm shocked that we do not have a bowl until now. But I'm glad you're here now. Lets keep the excitement going 🥳

Drop in your questions around amazon joining

Have a connection through Salt Lake City on Thursday. How well does the airport perform during snow showers? How much delay should I mentally prepare for?

When do you know that it's time to get off of an internal project? I dont want to let my team and network go but I simply dont have the capacity or energy to do a great job anymore

I started a one-person run branding studio in Oct 2020, I’ve had 5 organic reach outs from potential clients since, and all have ghosted me after the first email. I know this kinda stuff happens but is the rate of it happening normal?

How do you determine equity amount for key employees or strategic hires? Is there an ideal way to do the math that is fair?

What do you do for networking/gaining exposure?It seems like most networking events are for drinking, and the speaking gigs are impossible to find.

How do you explain the size of your agency to clients who ask?
Number of staff? Who your clients are? Revenue figures?

Looking for a freelance account exec for a possible 6 month gig. Car experience a must, 10+yrs a must, strong agency experience & references a must. Please connect or sends names of those you’d hire!

Hi All. Looking for thoughts on vertical expertise and whether it’s just a good sales tool or whether anyone has considered structuring the company in this format because it drives stronger work? I’ve always been fairly anti vertical because I think it stifles ideas and thinking, but you can always have people that specialize that you pull in when having bespoke industry knowledge can help. What do others think? Do clients want this from their partners?

Agency-consultancy that’s had a terrific first three years. We are considering buying our way into the next round of growth, but not quite sure how to put out feelers without being too forward.

Suggestions/ideas?

When building a new brand who is the real client? Who has the final say?Who should you really listen to if no one is taking the lead? The president of the company, the original owner, the financial money partner, the third party manager? Everyone seems to have a voice but the main contact is the underling gathering and offering their own opinion which strangely seems to be the most on point. How do you handle this type of situation?

Who in the agency would you say has the ultimate responsibility to come up with the agency’s pricing & services model? Biz Dev? Finance? Ops? Project Management? Other? (Context: we have an ongoing issue where a biz dev / accounts person will eagerly be coming up with half-baked solutions for a prospective client, and it always feels like a cluster F when they want to know what resources, budget, and time we need in order to execute said service - which they thought of in the first place!)

I get an email or a LinkedIn post from a company that promises to fill my pipeline with leads probably three times a week. I’m wondering if anyone has used one of these services and can provide a recommendation? I have a pretty narrow niche and have figured out what my ideal client looks like, so I assume that these services will fill my inbox, but with leads that are not quite right. Anyone have a good experience?

When a project is taking longer because of client delays, what have you done to motivate them back on track so the agency isn’t burning hrs/money waiting on decisions? Looking for contract details, conversation motivators, money/percentage threats, recommend moving to hourly after a certain time etc. any advice welcome.

Hey everyone, I'm looking for some resources that can help me to determine my pricing and business model for a new agency. Does anyone have suggestions?

All of us who have decided to leave the big stage and carve out a piece of the pie for ourselves this is where we join efforts and help each other with what we’ve learned and how to be better