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Don’t quit. Just say, “I’m not doing nights and weekends anymore for the next six months. My wife will divorce me otherwise. If you have a problem with this, fire me.”
👆set boundaries. If you have a good percent of winning… they gotta listen
If you aren’t winning pitches the old way, maybe it’s time for a new pitch process within the agency? If people are burnt out they won’t be doing their best work which just means more loses and more wasted time.
Hey Im not fighting. Just throwing some thoughts.
I mean, I kind of think this is the job of the ECD? If your shop does not have enough business to keep the lights on, you have to go full court press to try to get that revenue. Or they will have to lay people off or close. It’s not something the lower ranks can do, and they don’t even have the visibility into the finances, as you should*. And you have to do the heavy lifting since you make 2x, 3x or even more than they do.
*if they are saying they can’t hire, and you doubt this, sit down with the CFO and understand the numbers. What revenue do you need. What’s the timeline. What are the goals. Are they realistic? You are leadership, you should understand the plan of how to move forward so that you can lead your team out of this.
Holding co owned agency or ?