Knowledge Centre – The Blog

Knowledge Centre – The Blog

Collection of the important insights, trends and issues we have encountered in our work with our clients.

Unlike a blog, this is not a collection of musings or things that caught our attention today.

Instead, it is a collection of the important insights, trends and issues we have encountered in our work with our clients and the solutions we have developed.

This why we call it our Knowledge Centre. It is where we share the collective knowledge of TrinityP3. We add to this regularly. We update it when and where needed. We recommend bookmarking this page and be sure to visit regularly when looking for inspiration, insight and knowledge on the world of marketing management.

Client agency behaviour

The ethics of Client / Agency behaviour: What is acceptable and what is not?

At the inaugural Mumbrella Asia 360 earlier this month Julian Barrans, Asia Business director and I curated a session on client / agency behaviour based around real life examples of dubious incidents we had either witnessed or had heard about ...
How to know if you need to pitch your agency

How to know if you need to pitch your agency

I often get asked by our clients to see them ‘about running an agency pitch’. The decision to pitch, for whatever reason, is generally already taken by the time they speak to me. Yet sometimes, based on what I hear, ...
stakeholder engagement

The Importance of (good) stakeholder engagement in any marketing transformation project

Each year at TrinityP3, we work on many large strategic marketing transformation projects. Ranging from marketing performance solutions to technology solutions to roster alignments, most of what we do will often involve a lot of people across quite complex organisation ...
Pitching for your business

What happens when the best agencies are no longer interested in pitching for your business?

Recently we have read reports from the CEO of WPP, Sir Martin Sorell and even our own Executive Chairman, Michael Farmer, talking about the almost irrational motivation of agencies to pitch for and win business at any cost. Certainly, with ...
Pitch process

How TrinityP3 helps measure the performance of marketing – Three case studies

After more than 15 years of downward pressure on marketing costs, the majority of traditional businesses are struggling to deliver growth and yet marketing provides one of the most successful drivers of business growth and performance when properly invested and ...
advertising agencies value

Can management consultants teach ‘value’ to the advertising agencies?

It is interesting to see how the advertising industry has reacted to the recent acquisition play of the management consultant firms like Accenture and PWC. Some people embrace the trend while others are sceptical as to the efficacy of the ...
working to non-working ratio

Why working / non-working ratios no longer work for advertising

This is the ninth in a series of one minute videos that address one of the many complex challenges facing marketing, media and advertising today. The Golden Minute series is an attempt to prove Albert Einstein right when he said "The definition of genius ...
Pitching your agency

The dangers of pitching your agency on a regular basis

Do you work for a company that routinely has you take your contracted agencies to pitch every three years? Is this mandated by finance or procurement? Or is this something that the marketing team believe is the best option? We ...
optimise marketing performance

How TrinityP3 is helping optimise marketing performance through technology – Three case studies

Technology platforms, both martech and adtech, provide marketers with the opportunity to be more effective and efficient in their marketing. But technology is said to be moving at click speed and the investment is significant. It is important when investing ...
Benchmark origins

Are you benchmarking or butchering your agency fees?

This is the tenth in a series of one-minute videos that address one of the many complex challenges facing marketing, media, and advertising today. The Golden Minute series is an attempt to prove Albert Einstein right when he said: "The definition of genius is ...
TV production

Is your TV production process moving forward or stuck in the old ways?

Recently I received an email from an “Institute” claiming that they were researching the current state of the global TVC production industry. They said that they had read several of my posts on the TrinityP3 site and considered me to ...
PR Partners for advertising

Engagement Agreements to align expectations and performance – Three case studies

Just as marketing is increasingly complex, so the relationships between marketers and their various agencies are increasingly complex and difficult to manage. Many of the past practices, both formal and informal, struggle to keep pace with the changes and complexity ...

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