Time to pitch your agency or not? And when it is the only answer

Pitch or not

That indeed is the question many marketers ask themselves when agencies aren’t performing. Given one of our services at TrinityP3 is Pitch Consultancy, and I get paid to be a Pitch Consultant, one might think I would answer: “Pitch of course!” But alas, you would be mistaken to think I would say that without asking a few very pointed questions first.

Technology vendor selection for marketing and IT managers – who to trust?

technology vendor

Market Research firm, Vanson Bourne, and PR Group, Hotwire, have released “The Changing Face of Influence” Report. The Report is based on surveying 1000 decision makers to help make sense of the way marketing and IT departments engage with media sources when choosing external technology vendors – exploring their habits, preferred channels and the ways they make use of different sources of information to make purchasing decisions. Whilst most of the Report is pretty generic in terms of utilising social media as channels for vendor research and influence, there were two stats that stood out for me.