Archive for the advertising Tag
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...

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...

Rules of Re-messaging

On 7 for all Mankind I found the dress of my dreams, but they didn’t have my size. After I left the site that very dress from 7FAM followed me around through display banners all over the internet saying, “BUY ME! BUY ME!”. I’d love...

Social media calendar template

It’s important that when creating a social media strategy, two things are accounted for: social media calendar and measurement metrics Both of these can be combined into the same template.  The first piece of the template is to make sure everything is there needed to...

Working together

It’s much easier to silo marketing platforms (traditional vs. digital vs. PR) and to plan them each individually, pretend the other doesn’t exist, but at the end of the day our clients still have marketing goals, which intern become campaign goals.  So if we’re all...

Manhattan by Woody Allen

Remind me… why’d I move here?

Work wise, I’m finally movin’ & a shakin’! I’ve been helping out the B2B team on a global advertising campaign.  Last week they were having issues with their budgets and couldn’t figure out why everything was so high and over budget.  I ended up staying...

Kerry Guard and her 6th Floor Walk Up

Stairs, stairs, stairs and more stairs

One month down and zero work to show for it, unless finding the best way to watch my favorite TV shows during work hours counts. Either the media planners & media supervisors are too busy to teach us or there isn’t enough work to go...

Kerry Guard Digital Media Strategist on Her First Week in NYC

Paperwork & Mouse Traps

First week down. Other then HR paperwork there wasn’t much else to do. It seems the supervisors are so super busy that they don’t have time to teach us anything at the moment.  Hopefully this was just a weird week and next week things will...