Category Archives: agency remuneration / compensation

Advertising is rarely a manufacturing process, but sometimes it can be

A client’s procurement team asked me to review their current services contract to ensure it reflected current ‘best practice”. Apart from the usual problems with intellectual property, the clause that jumped out was that the agency would deliver a 5% … Continue reading

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Aligning marketing expectations to marketing budget when establishing the agency scope of work

A marketer recently provided their extensive scope of work to their preferred agency so the agency could provide a remuneration proposal. The problem was that the proposal was almost double the marketers budget for the agency fee. This budget was … Continue reading

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When marketing pitch consultants get agency remuneration wrong

Had a phone call the other day from an agency CEO. It seems that they are in negotiations with a potential client and another consultant (a competitor) is managing the process. The consultant has proposed annual billable hours of 2000 … Continue reading

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How to calculate the agency head hours required to deliver your scope of work

Many remuneration agreements, be they project fees or retainers, are based on the head hour resources required to undertake the task multiplied by an overhead and profit factor. But one of the key issues is setting a realistic scope of … Continue reading

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Adding procurement and purchasing rigour into television advertising production

When the agency present “competitive” estimates for the latest television production, are you presented with the three quotes on one page, with the three costs all within 5% to 10% of each other? Is this familiar? Does this mean that … Continue reading

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The real business cost of all of those back-to-back meetings

Over the summer (Southern hemisphere) I was checking out apps similar to the TrinityP3 Resource Rate Calculator Business App on the iTune App Store and came across this beauty from LBi, one of the hot digital shops (who in late … Continue reading

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How to use the TrinityP3 resource rate calculators iPhone Business App to get a pay rise

I was having a coffee with a friend who was a recently-redundant creative director at one of the larger agencies around town. He had decided to now go out on his own, funded by the redundancy package from the agency. … Continue reading

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Paying peanuts? – It is not the smartest advertising agency remuneration strategy

No one wants to be paying too much for their advertising. But likewise, there are downsides to paying too little. We see it all the time, advertisers call us in because they are unhappy with the performance and service levels provided … Continue reading

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Save time and money by improving your advertising approval process

Sitting with a client and their agency, I was talking about the cost in time, resources and dollars being consumed by their convoluted approval processes. You see, we had identified that for most projects there were eight people involved in … Continue reading

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Things to consider when selecting a new advertising agency

Choosing a new agency, be that creative, media, digital, experiential or any one of the many other types of service providers is not something to be taken lightly. The cost and time involved and the impact on the business is … Continue reading

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