Lockdown presents a host of new challenges for creative agencies, the main one being that it breaks up the team. Kieran S Lawler of digital agency Hallam, outlines some of the essential collaboration hacks they use to make sure the agency stays connected and its projects stay on track.

Hallam just scooped ten, yes 10 Drum Recommends awards including the Grand Prix (for the third time), so this is advice you can trust.

While we’re all about numbers, Jeremy Davies gets a reboot with a classic tale of not one, two, or…….

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Jeff Swan who runs RevUp Sales is the consummate new business guru: smart, full of energy and enthusiasm and he creates Nurture Sequences that ramp up response rates and smash booked meeting quotas.

Jeff takes some calls from our listeners to advise them on how to maximise their outreach campaigns.

Also in the episode, Fuel’s resident gag-meister Jeremy Davies muses about badly targeted sales campaigns.

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The creative force that leads Studio Blup, the agency responsible for some of the most iconic branding work recently created for Nike, MTV, Adidas, FIFA, EA Sports and Gucci is Dines.

Dines shares some of his secrets to quite literally keeping his cool during a pandemic. His agency hasn’t stopped. In fact, they’ve turned the volume up to eleven by joining LAB Group to complete the symphony of branding tools they can now deploy for global brands. Not only that, but Dines is a wonderful guy – talented, funny and he loves his Mum, so we love him.

Meanwhile, resident laughter-maker Jeremy Davies addresses the elephant in the room from behind the eight ball on the subject of euphemisms.

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In this special edition of Fuel, Matt Brown, #1 Amazon best selling author of Your Inner Game, CEO of sales organisation Digital KungFu and  star of The Matt Brown Show, a multi-channel personal growth broadcast sits down to impart some of his gems of wisdom.

Chasing sales opportunities in the global hi-tech market, the art of live streaming, building Digital KungFu around the ideal client and turning his company into a platform technology business.

Plus: guaranteed to put a smile on your face – Jeremy Davies is practically tactical with agility ability.

All of us at The Advertist invite you to check out The Fuel Podcast, where we pull on the experience of leaders of companies in a variety of sectors with loads of fantastic interviews, tips and tales.

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Heeeeerrs Hank! He’s back with more positive news about how agencies in the US are not only recovering but are positively thriving by finding new ways to deliver value to clients.

An episode that delivers more knowledge and insight than UPS delivers parcels!

Hank outlines what steps agencies can take to help their clients by using real examples of gold old American agency common sense.

We also dissect a few of Hank’s Isms from his book Hankisms.

Also – Jeremy Davies examines the protocols of saying goodbye

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How to spot the buyers from the spyers, the Glengarry leads from the rest. Ben Potter is a new business troubleshooter and he’s ready to share his basic new business qualification principles to help your agency.

This is the episode to listen to if you’re fed up with chasing wild geese, going up blind alleys and hitting dead-ends.

Supercharge your prospecting with 3 simple rules of new business.

Also, Jeremy Davies provides a handy tip about comparing apples with Apple and making phone calls on a fish.

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Developing new business prospects these days is all about being useful and demonstrating a real understanding of the prospect’s market, competitors, threats and opportunities. Not trying to overcome issues with charm and charisma.

Predictive Black is a fintech that punches well above its weight by providing companies with financial analytics that give new business prospectors an edge. Zitah McMillan, the company’s CEO tells us why AI, Open Banking and the Open Communications initiative are going to have a massive influence on the agency world.

New business presentations need to be full of carefully crafted insights based on real-time industry and financial statistics and Predictive Black delivers this using artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

This show is a must-listen if you’re looking for persuasive, compelling and powerful data to win new business.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Davies opens up a whole new world of lockdown and isolation marketing and sales jargon.

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All you need to know about how to successfully on-board and retain new clients in the ‘New Normal’.

ORM have won a lot of business recently, so there’s no blaming a slowdown for them! Their team has adapted to make sure that clients experience the very best of the agency – even managing to improve the working strategy.

The agency’s Executive Strategy Director Andy Farmer covers the basic requirements of the remote agency office; tools for virtual meetings and brainstorming and fondly remembers what it was like to pitch and win in person!

Jeremy Davies, our resident raconteur explains why banana bread will defeat Covid-19.

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With the marketing world seeking new methods of content distribution, ex-ad agency creative and short film director and producer Nick Galanides has nothing to promote but he’s happy to talk about how film makers can play a part in the new marketing eco-system.

Talking of eco-systems, Nick vents on marketing catch phrases; how noisy tummies provide inspiration; the pointlessness of awards in advertising and the importance of storytelling, sincerity and fun in film.

Also, our resident funny man Jeremy Davies gets all hot under the collar about marketing metaphors and the wonder of referrals!

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