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1. How MANY suppliers do you have?
• Do you have enough SUPPLIERS for your marketing effort:
• Or do you have too many suppliers for the MARKETING team?
• How do you calculate EXACTLY the right balance for your agency network:
2. Who are your BEST suppliers?
• How do you RANK marketing supplier performance:
• Why are they valued, and how do they create VALUE for you:
• What is their EXACT expertise, and what do they do “as well”:
3. How much do you SPEND on marketing?
• How much do you spend on MARKETING:
• What else is purchased with the marketing budget:
• How is your marketing budget BALANCED:
4. How does your INVESTMENT stack up?
• Since the GFC the marketing industry has changed – structural changes in off-the-page advertising preceded the social media explosion, but not online sales channels.
• And desperate ad agencies have been finding new models for their remuneration structure: is yours new, or pre-2009?
5. Who are your suppliers WORKING for?
• Who pays your agencies, really:
• Are YOUR suppliers too QUALITY driven:
• Are your suppliers part of a global or local network:
6. How do you RANK them?
Do their CORE competencies support your core business needs?
7. How do you WORK with Marketing?
• How do you persuade the CMO that Procurement has a role:
• How do you show that you understand that an agency relationship is different:
• What can you bring:
Executive Summary
• Much has changed in the MARKETING industry in the last FIVE years:
• Budgets have been chopped since the GFC.
• Desperate agencies have been finding INNOVATIVE ways to charge.
• MARKETING money is an investment not spend:
• Payment by results is a new science.
• Search engine optimisation the new secret formula.
• The key to good marketing savings is threefold:
• Benchmarking your costs with the best-in-class marketing producers.
• Improving your marketing processes, not haggling down fees.
• Aligning your agency choices directly with your marketing STRATEGY.
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1. How MANY suppliers do you have?
• Do you have enough SUPPLIERS for your
marketing effort:
• Enough to offer variety of thought?
• Sufficient to cover every media channel in
your marketing MIX?
• Or do you have too many suppliers for the
MARKETING team?
• With overlapping expertise and competition
for BUDGET?
• With TEAM WORK quickly becoming
CONFLICT?
• How do you calculate EXACTLY the right
balance for your agency network:
• Which MUST you have, and which are
optional?
• And are they all geared to achieve a WIN/
WIN for you?
3. marketing management consultants
2. Who are your BEST suppliers?
• How do you RANK marketing supplier
performance:
• Do they have annual or quarterly reviews?
• And how exactly did you choose them in the
first place;
• …. a pitch, tender, strategic selection, trial or
mate?
• Why are they valued, and how do they create
VALUE for you:
• Are they measured by OUTPUT or INPUT?
• Are they measured by KPIs, EAVs or sales
leads created?
• What is their EXACT expertise, and what do they
do “as well”:
• Who is your LEAD AGENCY and why?
• Is their work split geographically – or
functionally?
I keep six honest serving men,
They taught me all I knew,
Their names are
What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
RUDYARD KIPLING
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3. How much do you SPEND on marketing?
• How much do you spend on MARKETING:
• What is it as a percentage of REVENUES, and
is that GOOD or BAD?
• What is the best KPI to measure your marketing
investment
• What else is purchased with the marketing budget:
• How much is spent in creative fees vs
production spend?
• And how much is spent on EXTRA STAFF as
contractors?
• How is your marketing budget BALANCED:
• What is you RATIO of production to media
spend?
• How do your agencies rate on this ratio, who
spends most? Half the money I spend
on advertising is wasted;
the trouble is I don't know
which half.”
JOHN WANAMANKER
How do your marketing spend RATIOS
compare with like advertisers?
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4. How does your INVESTMENT stack up?
• Since the GFC the marketing
industry has changed – structural
changes in off-the-page
advertising preceded the social
media explosion, but not online
sales channels.
• And desperate ad agencies have
been finding new models for their
remuneration structure: is yours
new, or pre-2009?
2008 2013
Benchmarking
Payment by
results
Social media
Online
Offline
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5. Who are your suppliers WORKING for?
• Who pays your agencies, really:
• What % of your budget goes on commission?
• What % is fee driven work?
• Are YOUR suppliers too QUALITY driven:
• Do you pay for unnecessary quality standards?
• How often do you pay for post-production
changes ?
• Are your suppliers part of a global or local network:
• Who is sharing the commission on each
campaign?
• And do you ever get free additional advertising
space?
• Are your suppliers’ innovative:
• Do they bring new ideas to the table?
• Or do they take them elsewhere?
“Do they work for
your company, or
your marketing
department?”
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6. How do you RANK them?
Troopers Stars
Problem
Children
Further
Developers
Value
Potential
Do their CORE
competencies
support your core
business needs?
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7. How do you WORK with Marketing?
• How do you persuade the CMO that
Procurement has a role:
• Attacking price is not enough, show them
you can bring business insight.
• Appreciate the difficulty of measuring
marketing effectiveness.
• How do you show that you understand that an
agency relationship is different:
• There are essential differences compared
to typical suppliers.
• And maybe rating them on VALUE even
more than performance?
• What can you bring:
1. Better business discipline improved
process management.
2. New market methodologies for agency
remuneration.
3. The chance to stretch the marketing
budget further.
Are you
compensating
your agencies
for effort –
or remunerating
them for
success?
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Executive Summary
• Much has changed in the MARKETING industry
in the last FIVE years:
• Budgets have been chopped since the
GFC.
• Desperate agencies have been finding
INNOVATIVE ways to charge.
• MARKETING money is an investment not spend:
• Payment by results is a new science.
• Search engine optimisation the new secret
formula.
• The key to good marketing savings is threefold:
1. Benchmarking your costs with the best-in-
class marketing producers.
2. Improving your marketing processes, not
haggling down fees.
3. Aligning your agency choices directly with
your marketing STRATEGY.
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EFFECTIVENESS
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Management of a
virtuous circle is the aim
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To improve your marketing EFFICIENCY
and drive greater EFFECTIVENESS,
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