Insights

Insights

  • Revisiting Account Management This Year

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Books

  • Selling Your Professional Service Firm

    A Primer

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  • Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors

    Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors

    Covert Techniques For A Remarkable Practice

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  • Financial Management of a Marketing Firm

    Financial Management of a Marketing Firm

    A Manual

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  • The Business of Expertise

    The Business of Expertise

    How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth

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Articles

  • Being “A Best Place to Work”

    I am, sadly, an underground skeptic of the “Best Place to Work” stuff, for two reasons: Yet, even though the awards may not correlate too well with the actual places […]

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  • Defining Success for Yourself

    First, if you are running a firm that makes money, does good work, with people you (usually) enjoy being around, the odds are stellar that you are a remarkable human […]

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  • When to Make Better Decisions

    tl;dr Don’t make decisions when things are great, but generally make them during normal times, with a touch of the honesty that comes from anger. Back when I was traveling […]

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Episodes

  • In Blair's experience, the most common reason a lead generation plan doesn’t get executed is it doesn’t recognize and leverage the strengths or motivations of the individuals executing.   LINKS "The Best […]
  • David describes the differences in what kind of people principals should hire during the early stage of their creative firm’s development when it’s all about “what we can afford,” the middle stage […]
  • Blair borrows a concept from finance and fitness to help creative agencies find the balance between low risk and high risk pricing strategies.
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