How To Be a Good Digital Marketing Partner

And so we just keep saying yes no matter what, because we didn’t say no to begin with?” Don Draper, Mad Men Wow. How familiar is that? When working at a Big Digital Marketing Agency, as Digital Marketing Strategists we become “Yes Men”. The client...

Climbing the Digital Advertising Coporate Ladder Was Not on My Priority List

My priority was mere daily survival.   After 14 months of becoming a media planner, I jumped the traditional ship and plunged head first into the deep pool of digital without looking for sharks or checking the temperature of the water. The big agency world...

Kerry Guard's Mom, Christine DiPaulo

The Fashionista Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree

After reading a blog post from my friend, Ngoc, about how she learned her fashion sense from her mom, I decided I too should share how my mom, Christine DiPaulo, has inspired me. Most women, when needing new ideas for an outfit, turn to their...

Kerry Guard Fashion Scarf Series

Scarfing Around

In looking at Facebook and following my favorite fashionites on Twitter, I noticed a trend happening for this Fall Season, that started in the middle of the summer…  scarves! The beauty is that I have quite a few scarves as demonstrated up top.  The green...

Kerry Guard, COO & Digital Media Strategist on the Difficulty of New Business

Celebrating the Failure when Pitching Digital Marketing Business

Per yesterday’s blog post, The Heartbreak of Pitching New Business, I wanted to quickly update you on the status of the “Potential Failure” and confirm that it is an actual failure.  It has officially fallen through and we’re in the five stages of grief: denial,...

Kerry Guard, COO & Digital Media Strategist on New Business & Failure

Pitching New Digital Marketing Business

I have learned more about new business in the last year then I ever have in the four years I was working for big agencies.  When you assist on new business in big business you have a far away view of what’s going on, but...

Kerry Guard Digital Media Strategist & MKG Media Group Client Success

How to Win New Digital Marketing Business Without Pitching

In just a few short hours we had an SOW conversation with our creative partner, Ryan Partnership about helping them with a global initiative for a client of theirs, VMware extended our contract, and YouEye signed an agreement to let us own their content strategy...

an epic love story

Back to the End: My Agency Advertising Story

A few months ago I attempted to put my experience of working in the advertising industry into words.  I wanted to start from the beginning, where it all began in New York September 2007.  However it’s been months since I wrote and it’s because it’s...

Over Loading the Senses

Bing bing bing ing bing bing bing bing … I’m sitting at a train station in San Jose and there is a train behind me making endless binging sounds. It doesn’t seem to have an off switch… This morning at 7AM I was woken up...

Sales Representatives – How to Partner with a Digital Marketing Agency

Five years ago a sales representative at People magazine gave me advise on how to be a great partner to sales representatives. He said, all representatives have a job to do and their bosses are asking them questions and that’s why they’re going to lean...