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how many creatives?
pros:
- more connection to the work
- more expectation to be scrappy and creative with the available budget
- tighter culture
- more effect and input on the agency
- wearing more hats because of small departments, helps you learn more
cons:
- smaller budgets = less freedom on what you can execute
- more uncertainty, unless there’s a stable client
- usually less pay, but that varies
- smaller departments, so less management experience and more weight put on individuals
Yes. I have a couple times and loved it and would gladly do it again.
We were tighter as a team, we all got to work on good stuff, and we had more fun than we did at a 150+ person agency.
I'd take what Jeremy Carson said with a grain of salt. Smaller agency doesn't mean smaller or less reliable budgets.
Coach
true, not always smaller budgets, just more than often is what i’ve found at a 40-person agency. sometimes they’re built for a specific client, and they have the budget to pay for all of them, so it’s a good sized client. and then sometimes it’s a project with some cool budget they grab from the AOR. so you’re right, good call.
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I did it and loved it. It was a great learning experience. I touched all projects.. If I worked at a large agency I would have been confined to 2-3 accounts maybe.