Medium Article – Rob King of The Client Key On How To Be Great At Sales Without Seeming Salesy Timing is everything in sales. Go too hard, too early and you’ll lose. Too late and the moment has passed. You’ve got to find the right balance between proactivity and giving people space. As a part of my series about how to be great at closing sales without seeming pushy, obnoxious, or salesy, I had the pleasure of interviewing Rob King. Rob King is the founder […]
Creative Agencies, there is no better time to be winning work There is no better time for creative agencies to be winning work. Either here in the UK, or in International Markets. The barriers to entry are lower than ever before and agencies can access new clients and new markets with minimal costs and time investment. Understanding your market: Picking the right market is critical, whether it is Tech, Retail etc; there is no point trying […]
Turn Conversations into Fee Paying Clients The 7 step method to convert ‘conversations’ to clients. You probably have many conversations with potential clients in your agency. Perhaps on a daily basis? How many of them progress to become actual fee paying clients? How many of them end up being just ‘good conversations’? There is a process that you can take people through that is so effective it will give you a […]
Agency New Business Workshop Last week we had the pleasure of hosting a workshop in Soho, alongside EVCOM. The topic of the session was “New Year, New Business, A New Way”, hitting the ground running with solutions to real life business development issues and setting 2022 off to a successful start! We tackled real world agency growth challenges and worked through them to give attendees suggestions to implement in […]
A New Year – A New Way for New Business The creative sector is currently experiencing a huge shift in the way clients engage with agencies. This presents many challenges, and opportunities, for agencies. How can creative companies gain an advantage to succeed in this changing landscape? Is there now a way for your agency to grow more effectively? A New Way, for New Business is an approach to consistently win you new work, more […]
The Truth about Agency Sales There are many misconceptions on the best ways to grow agencies and creative businesses. Most of them are inaccurate and very unhelpful for small to mid-sized agency owners. The Client Key has decades of experience in successfully growing agencies, production companies and creative organisations. So, in this article, we’re going to share some of our core ‘truths’ in agency new business. We hope that you’ll […]
Agencies: How to thrive and find new clients during a downturn? (And a lockdown!) Agencies and creative businesses are very much under pressure in today’s Covid affected world. The world (for now at least) has stopped travelling, meeting and interacting. Temporarily everything has changed the way we do business. Video calls have suddenly become the new normal and there are many questions about the long term effects of the disruption to creative businesses. This new way of operating is […]
Mayor of London’s – Business Growth Programme I am delighted to announce that we have been chosen as business mentors for the Mayor of London’s Business Growth Programme. The programme is overseen and delivered by London & Partners which is the Mayor of London’s official promotional agency. It exists to support the Mayor’s priorities by promoting London internationally as a leading world city in which to invest, work, study and visit. The […]