Consider the plight of media agency executive today: The holding company that owns the place is hell-bent on replacing your team with an automated trading desk. Your clients (when they’re not taking dinners with the shop that wants to unseat you) are holding you responsible for getting them great deals on only the best websites. In the next 18 months, many of the people on your team are going to (a) get poached by another shop, (b) take a job with a media sales organization, or (c) finally realize that grad school is where they belong. There are 14 messages on your voice mail and 62 in your e-mail inbox from reps who just want to “check in” on this or that account or brief you on their new site redesign. And all the while, friends and relatives who watch Mad Men think you’re doing nothing but gourmet dinners and courtside seats.
Madison Avenue needs a friend right about now.
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Some media sellers might think this is the perfect time to turn their backs on the agency. They would be sorely mistaken, and they’d be leaving tremendous opportunity – and money – on the table if they did. Now is the time for a new creative level of engagement with the media agency. It’s something that the sales leader and the sales rep can commit to, measure and execute. And if pursued consistently and well, it will lead to good things. Here’s the roadmap:
- Focus on the Agency’s Relationship with its Clients. Every shop is trying to differentiate itself; every media exec wants a personal victory with her client. Constantly challenge your team to consider whether and how you’re making a difference in these relationships. But before you can do that, you have to…..
- Cultivate Those who Actually Talk to the Client. Most digital sales teams spend countless hours and entertainment dollars currying favor with media buyers and RFP jockeys. We don’t get to see the people at agencies who really own the client relationships because we don’t….
- Have a Point of View on Creating Value and Growing Budget. Face it: Most of us are simply focused on helping agencies spend budgets. We’re just a bunch of birds in the nest, all crying for the same worm. All we usually ask senior agency executives is “help us get more.” Instead we should be focused on how we can….
- Give the Agency a Strategy and Resource Boost. “We want to grow our relationship with this agency, help you extend your services and help you grow the budgets you touch by generating and fostering ideas. But we can’t do that until you help us….”
- Get Off the RFP Crack Pipe and Get Greater Visibility. I know, this is bitter medicine. Working the RFP machine was a good strategy for many years, but it’s just not any more. Many reps and sales teams are victims of their own past success, and can’t envision an immediate future where enterprise selling skills and long-term relationship incubation are needed. The faint ringing you hear is your wake up call.
Take responsibility for your own behavior in the agency relationship. Operate from a place of generosity and vision. Teach your people to be 70% of the relationship that they want with the agency. The shops you call on will define themselves based on how they respond. Those that reject the fresh approach I’ve outlined above may indeed not be worth the effort. But if you reject it yourself, than you’ve got no one to blame.
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Despite the fact that President Obama was born in Hawaii, Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller lets frequent Caller columnist and "Fox News Forum Contributor" Tommy De Seno go birther in a column headlined "The birther movement is President Obama’s fault":
I’ve long maintained that the existence of the "birther movement" is President Obama’s fault. He could dispel the rumors about his birth by simply showing everyone his 1961 birth certificate. By doing so, he would also save a lot in legal fees. Yet, no one has ever asked Obama why he’d rather lose money than show his birth certificate. It’s time to ask that question.
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If he really wants the birthers to shut up, he has the power to do so by releasing the 1961 document. Why not just do it then? It’s a simple task.
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I call shenanigans on the straw-man argument that "the birthers still won’t believe him." Yes, they will. And so too will others who just don’t know where he was born, not because they are kooks, but because Obama himself acts kooky in spending money to win lawsuits he could win for free by showing his birth certificate.
By defending the lawsuits and not showing the 1961 document, Obama feeds the suspicion of those who already think he is lying. That’s why this issue has the power to linger, and that’s Obama’s fault alone. I hope the birthers continue to bite his ankles until he releases the records. He deserves nothing less for making this issue stay with us.
That blame-the-victim birther nonsense won Tommy De Seno a spot on the Daily Caller’s front page:
On July 29, 2009, FoxNews.com published a similar piece by De Seno, as Media Matters noted at the time. That piece was headlined "Obama’s to Blame for the Birther Movement" and, contained many of the same lines he uses in the current Daily Caller piece. Both quote Ronald Reagan’s "trust but verify" line, for example. Both contain the lines "Sure his grammar school records show that he was enrolled as an Indonesian Muslim, but some people will say anything to get their kid in the right school. It doesn't really answer the question." Both ask of Obama’s purported failure to prove his birthplace, "Why not get rid of a conversation that has been with America since the campaign"? Both reference John Kerry’s Yale records.
So here’s what we’ve learned today: The way to get a piece published on the Daily Caller’s front page is to recycle an 18th-month-old FoxNews.com column peddling birther conspiracy theories.
Remember when Tucker Carlson insisted the Daily Caller wouldn't be a right-wing site?
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