Category Archives: agency solutions

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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Case studies on how production assessments can add value to television advertising costs

Since 2000 we have been providing our clients with an advertising production cost assessment, cost estimates and management services. It is often a part of our business not popular with many of the agencies (as evidenced in this video introduction … 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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What’s all this bull about agency billings? – A misleading measure of agency performance

Many people in the media still use media billings to indicate the size of the account or the size of the agency. Check out Mumbrella, or AdNews, B&T or even The Australian and The Financial Review. Even overseas, Advertising Age … Continue reading

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Media complexity sees a rise in proprietory agency tools but how do you assess value?

The use, application and output of the myriad of software tools and technological aids to better media strategy and implementation has become an essential aspect of the media agency’s armoury. In new business pitches, touting these well developed and attractively … Continue reading

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Case studies on the mistakes advertisers make with their TV advertising productions

In the 12 years we have been assessing and reviewing television productions there have emerged three common ways advertisers drive up the cost of their television productions. Unfortunately, in almost every case, the advertisers concerned were unaware of the impact … Continue reading

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Value based agency remuneration considerations for direct response and retail advertisers

I had an interesting conversation with a client in early December last year as they had contacted me to discuss their media and creative requirements to meet their business growth objectives in the coming year. What made it interesting was … Continue reading

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Ten tips for managing advertising production costs more effectively

It is interesting that 12 years ago when I started TrinityP3 (Simply P3 then) that the majority of our work was in Production Benchmarking and Management. In fact some of our earliest clients still think of us as production consultants. … Continue reading

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12 trends in strategic marketing management for 2012

This first appeared as a guest blog in BizCommunity in South Africa and can be seen in full here. 2012 will be a year of solving the conundrums of marketing complexity. The world sitting in a now familiar state of uncertainty, … Continue reading

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