Hank is Mr New Business in the USA. He’s worked with anyone who’s anyone in the North American agency scene – on both sides of the face, as a client and as someone trying to win business.

Hank has agreed to be a regular feature on the show, giving our listeners a unique insight into how the agency new business scene is recovering post-pandemic.
If you’re looking for tips on areas that have responded well, then look no further and wrap your ears around this.

In this show, we cover the first 3 acts of the first phase of the shut-down:

  • Initial Reactions to the shutdown
  • How the US ad industry responded and regrouped
  • What does the short-term normal look like for agency folk.

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Don’t think he takes new business lightly. Jeremy Davies is one of the UK’s most accomplished new business practitioners and it should be noted he’s also a gifted comedian too. Is there a link? Jeremy gives us all a lesson in how to improve our pitching.

Also Jeremy Davies explains the link between punchlines and benefits.

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John Pummell literally helped create the new business industry we all know and love to day. He’s been running his own consultancy, with his son Jack since the early 90s and he’s seen it grow, contract, grow and grow again and along the way, he’s picked up a few wrinkles to his brain that he’d like to share with us.

It’s always worth listening to John because he a stalwart of the industry but he chose this moment to come on the show and reveal some major news..

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A textbook approach to big company hibernation, disaster planning and agility. Lynnette tells us about how Barratts scrambled to react to the pandemic and came out ahead of the competition. She details the company’s brand ethos, its new working model, virtual house tours, Proptech and advice for young Mums returning to the workforce.

In addition, Jeremy Davies finds new business opportunities on the log flume.

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So you think you’ve got it tough at the moment? Try launching a trade body in a foreign country in a different hemisphere in the middle of a pandemic while maintaining one of the most positive attitudes in business. PRCA Director of The Americas Isobel Arrowsmith on the newly formed Latin American division has her work cut out, but she’s up for the challenge.

Public Relations, new business, culture, social distancing. This show has it all and more.

Also, Jeremy Davies spots distant ship smoke on the horizon.

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A superb prophecy from the CEO of agency Nokamo, Ian Humphris on what’s going to sort the wheat from the chaff as we emerge into a world that needs to lean to cooperate with a virus.

Ian gives his predictions on who’s going to win and who’s going to lose. Why 81% of CEO think their marketing is different, while only 7% of their customers agree.

Why are CEOs so misled? They need a copy of Kansas, the 10 new commandments of marketing.

Plus Jeremy Davies takes his medicine like a real new business hero: straight up and no sugar.

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Show Notes:

Ian Humphris LinkedIn

Nokamo’s web site

Bill Wallsgrove NED of Studio Blup comes on to discuss some BIG news for the agency as well as giving reasons why it shouldn’t be all doom and gloom for retail if you’re as brilliantly cool as this agency, which has been winning major business while others have not and is literally bursting with talent and fresh ideas.

Bill tells Keith Smith how retailers can save their future through the creation of in-store theatre and we discuss how Blup could potentially add some grime to the US hip-hop design market.

Also our resident dry wit Jeremy Davies gets buried in paperwork responding to tenders.

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Show notes

Here’s Blup!

Blup’s Instagram

Bill Wallsgrove’s LinkedIn profile

Phil’s back with a controversial talking point; why CMOs make bad CEOs. Phil outlines the top five reasons why CMOs often fall short of making the CEO position. It’s not anything to do with intelligence but more of lack of fluency in boardroom-ese.

Plus – why we’re wrong to think the Coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented; how to out-think and out-manoeuvre the competition; how marketing thinking is perfect for lifting companies out of the doldrums and how it can be applied more broadly across the business.

And our resident new business trailblazer Jeremy Davies tackles the thorny matter of agency processes.

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Phil’s LinkedIn profile

Corporate Punk web site

Neil Bentley had a prolific career in radio as a DJ and presenter on a host of popular national radio stations. He now runs a highly successful digital production company that solves many of the broadcasting problems that companies face when producing their own digital content.

WebVid is a digital, creative agency based in Oval with its own dedicated podcast studio and green screen room, as well as remote production facilities.

Neil came on the show to debut his latest innovation Camflare – a clever service that gives companies the ability to send and receive digital content seamlessly for their own podcast and Vlogging production needs.

Meanwhile the funniest man on LinkedIn – Jeremy Davies has a little trouble networking.

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John Ashton wasn’t really expecting to be seen as a visionary businessman when he set up Write Arm – a coterie of skilled business to business writers, ready to deploy at a moment’s notice to help elevate boring jargon-heavy marketing copy to celestial quality, but he is now.

So many marketing departments are starved of the kind of literal excellence that Write Arm supplies but now, never more in need.

In the episode, John explains how he conceived the idea of Write Arm, why engaging copy is more important than ever and covers the five influences of inspiration.

Our in-house wit Jeremy Davies recounts an amusing new business brief encounter.

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John’s LinkedIn profile

Write Arm’s web site