I’ve been working on a pitch that continues to get delayed and it’s poorly managed. The RFI was due in July. Then days AFTER submission I received an email from the consultant saying we now had until August. End of September rolls around and frankly I had forgotten about this 100-page beast. They want a meet and greet….the following week. The day before the meet and greet we get a list of questions (that aren’t easy softballs). Now 2 weeks later and nothing. What a gross feeling this process is

What has your marketing goal been for this month? How far along are you to meeting your goal?

Does anyone have benchmarks they can share on the right ratio of software developers in an organization? For example, software developers in ratio to other employees, or per a certain revenue total? Anything you have would be helpful thanks

Hi All , I have an offer from CTS BANGALORE . Office location not mentioned in offer letter. Any idea what will be the exact work location in bangalore . Tech : SAP MM. HR WHO HIRED ME IS FROM PUNE HE IS NOT SURE ABOUT BANGALORE LOCATIONS

Hi TCS Peeps!! Got offer form TCS : 39l with 16 yoe. Currently getting 33l. Variable component mentioned by TCS is 6 l. Any suggestions please! It's for Consulting division.

Has anyone ever had their bonus negatively impacted because of late time entries? Asking for a frenemy.

Office policy is if you’re fully vaxxed and have close contact with a person with COVID, you can still come in the office but have to be masked. Then you must test 5 days later. My husband tested positive after having symptoms 4 days prior that he thought were allergies. I was negative. My supervising atty says I’m fine for in office but I ended up staying home a day to make sure hubby is okay. Do you think this will be frowned upon? We had someone in the hospital with COVID recently. Paranoid

Did someone do a green card process with IBM? Can you share some lights please? I was told I’d get started right when I join.

I haven’t really been enjoying being an industry accountant. After 4 years in B4 audit and 1.5 in industry I’m really starting to think about going back to maybe a GT, RSM, or BDO type firm

Accenture or Deloitte?

I am holding a few call options of GE. Any thoughts after the $200M fine

The COVID age brought a new wave of innovation in academic writing. What's your favorite change from the past 3 years?

Hey there folks.
There’s a great opportunity with Cisco as a Tech Writer! My wife and I have our 3rd&last child coming this July. Any idea on the starting pay?
Thanks

All I can say is wow. I am teaching remotely for the entire year and we had our first day today. I feel so incredibly grateful for the students that I have and the paraprofessional that I have. Honestly this might be my favorite year of teaching!

Anyone tuning into AdColor?

Anyone in Chicago here who wants to meet up?

Would you jump from Big4 to TCS (Tata) to join their “strategy consulting” practice? Recruiter said large management consulting firm and you can imagine my reaction once I heard TCS. At what price would you consider the switch? Currently making 150k for reference.

How’s WLB and comp in EVR’s PCA group?

Hey! First timer. I’m moving over into biz dev and am trying to get a better handle on how you all do this thing!
Is there anything you wish you knew earlier on? Any tips for this new comer is very appreciated

What are you doing to drive inbound? How are you marketing your agency? Or do you?

Quick Q - how are your comp plans structured ? Not the amounts but more how do you handle recognizing revenue of multi year deals?

What is working for people to drive intro meeting opportunity. ? How are you breaking thru and getting someone to agree to an exploratory meeting?

Hi! Has anyone gone to one of the GDS group CMO Insight Summits? Is it worth the large price tag?

10 days to turn around a RFP.
Agency: request schedule Q&A session
Client: Let me check schedules. Wednesday next week works for our team... (day 6 of RFP) 🤦‍♂️

How do other agencies structure salaries and commissions for new business directors? What commission rate?

We've focused on networking and self promotion through a monthly newsletter for our new business process; sprinkled in with a tiny bit of RFPs. We're considering doing a mailing to targets. Thoughts?

Anybody care to share tactics for negotiating rates with procurement? Know they’re bluffing to drive all competing agencies down, but not sure what leverage we have to push back.

I find myself looking for a new role in agency / production company biz dev. I co-founded a creative production agency back in 2010. Grew it to a staff of 80 FTE, creating strategic content-driven campaigns for brands, tv networks, streamers, platforms, publishers etc. We developed and produced original TV as well. Around 2016 we positioned the company for sale and then sold in Jan 2019. After going over to the acquirer in 2020, I’m now free for the first time in a long time. What to do?

Any major NB decisions coming down the pike between now and end of year?

Any McCann NY new business fish in here? I see you have an opening and would love to get the inside scoop.

Hi all! First : shout out to the folks who sold the super bowl clients! Question for all. What tools are you using for biz dev? For finding clients specifically. We are a video production house so our needs may be different but we want to grow direct to client work as well. I know of winmo, agency access and agency source. Any other online tools you are using? Thanks!

Hi all! Just introducing myself. I’ve become a Bowl Leader here in the new biz bowl. Looking forward to it! This bowl helped me tremendously when I switched from prod co sales to full service agency biz dev. Great group! I’m now biz dev director for a production/post/animation facility. Please comment with a bit about you and your role. Thanks!

How much is an ANA membership (small firm)?

What is the pandemic version of "let's grab coffee". as a biz dev person I am struggling with how to make that initial connection. I offer up calls and/or zooms. Let us know if you have a good tip on how to break the ice with new biz/ get new potential clients interested.

Fishies, I am hiring a partner in crime to help me introduce PETERMAYER to the national stage. This isn't your typical biz dev role - it's designed to be a hybrid/cross-discipline role for someone who wants to use their full creative, strategic brain and most definitely NOT stay in their lane. Know anyone that sounds like that, send them my way! (Agency is full-time flex/hybrid, but a desire to be NOLA-based is strongly preferred; however remote may be negotiable.)

Anyone know of great junior talent looking to get into New Biz? We’re hiring

Say we’ve got a pitch in 3 weeks. What’s a typical fee for a freelance strategist to lead the strategy and work with the team to build the deck? How much would they make in that gig?

Hello! Curious if anyone has any thoughts on new year new business resolutions. Maybe it’s the fact that 2020 sucks but I’m already planning for the new year. I’m going to try and schedule time better for outreach and social media marketing. I tend to be too reactionary with my time.