Taking the Team Seriously

Taking the Team Seriously

David wants to know if Blair thinks it's harder for creative firms to find great prospective clients, or great employees, as they unpack how to attract the right candidates using a "lead generation" plan.

Ideas for "Lead Generation" of candidates:
  • Social media presence
  • Guest teach a single class at a known school that typically turns out a best student every semester
  • Offer your facility as a meeting place for trade/association meetings
  • Put a rotating art gallery with an open house when the display rotates
  • Quarterly webinar for prospective employees on topics they would be fascinated with, including guests (or even a podcast)
  • Skill-building workshops open to the community, bringing in expert teachers
  • Build a model that depends on a steady rotation of contractors to test them out
  • Keep a great relationship w/ employees who leave you—they are frequently your best people when they return after an interim education somewhere else

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Is AI Going to Kill Labor-based Pricing?

Is AI Going to Kill Labor-based Pricing?

Blair is stunned that he still encounters so many advisory businesses like ad agencies, consulting firms, legal and accounting practices — large and small — that are still selling time. So he and Davi...

25 Mar 27min

If I Were Starting a New Firm

If I Were Starting a New Firm

Blair interviews David about a recent article he's been receiving a lot of feedback on, in which he lists all of the things he would try to incorporate into a brand new creative agency, based on what ...

11 Mar 34min

Decoy or Anchor?

Decoy or Anchor?

Blair differentiates between decoy pricing and price anchoring, which are two different techniques that are often confused for each other, and can increase your average proposal value in multi-option ...

25 Feb 21min

We Are All Closet Socialists

We Are All Closet Socialists

Despite the fact that many entrepreneurs hate people telling them what to do, they end up running their own agencies using a "central planning" model. Instead, David encourages entrepreneurial leaders...

11 Feb 20min

Shower Your Way to Sales Success

Shower Your Way to Sales Success

David interviews Blair about his recent article in which he gives us methods to cope with our own natural emotional and physiological responses that can be triggered when unforeseen events unfold with...

28 Jan 20min

Why Entrepreneurs Are Unemployable

Why Entrepreneurs Are Unemployable

Blair interviews David about a recent article in which he argues that the very traits that make entrepreneurs successful also make it hard for them to give up being their own boss and join someone els...

14 Jan 23min

The Problem of Mechanistic Thinking

The Problem of Mechanistic Thinking

David interviews Blair about his recent article in which he explores how our businesses are not simple machines that can be tuned (or killed) with specific wrenches, but they are complex adaptive orga...

31 Des 202520min

Oppositio Singularis: The Positioner's Folly

Oppositio Singularis: The Positioner's Folly

David sees too many marketing agencies trying to attract new business by staking claims of specialness on things for which nobody is claiming the opposite, instead of building their positioning on uni...

17 Des 202513min

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