How to grow an advertising
agency edwardboches.com @edwardboches Hey Whipple, Squeeze This

Creative Director, Writer, Maker, Professor
of Advertising, Advisor to Brands, Ad Agencies and The Next Generation. Boston University, Mullen and Beyond. @edwardboches

Digital isn’t a thing; it’s
everything Change the mindset, the brief, the team The art of earning attention How customers become customers today Surviving the tsunami Social media is the new creative playground

Q: How does an agency
grow from 12 people in a house, in Wenham, Massachusetts to an Ad-Age A list global creative force? population: 4356* *Mullen/Lowe has 6000 + employees

1983 16 people print $2
million

1983 16 people print $2
million 2014 650 people digital, mobile, tv, social $125 million

Vision

Culture
Vision

Reinvention
Culture
Vision

Vision

what a brand strives to
be and live up to: its optimal and ultimate goal. Vision

what a brand strives to
be and live up to: its optimal and ultimate goal. Vision what the brand does every day to achieve that vision. Mission

be one of the world’s
best agencies: admired by employees, respected by peers, sought out by great brands. Vision 1983

be one of the world’s
best agencies: admired by employees, respected by peers, sought out by great brands. Vision 1983

be one of the world’s
best agencies: admired by employees, respected by peers, sought out by great brands. Vision create and produce work that will win awards regionally and nationally and build our clients’ business. Mission 1983

the world’s most creative and
innovative agency: admired by employees, respected by peers, sought out by great brands. Vision 2008

the world’s most creative and
innovative agency: admired by employees, respected by peers, sought out by great brands. Vision 2008

the world’s most creative and
innovative agency: admired by employees, respected by peers, sought out by great brands. Vision hire and invest in digital talent, web expertise, social media, new technology; win national and international awards. Mission 2008

three years later

5 4 3 2 1
The brands will be ranked based on a composite score, derived from the number of tweets about a brand as well as the sentiment of those tweets. The ranking of brands will be constantly updated. Rolling over any brand will show its composite score, the number of tweets about the brand, and the popularitythe number of tweets about the brand, and the popularity of the brand. Log in using your Twitter ID and tweet directly from the site. (We’ll automatically include the #brandbowl hashtag.) View and control the stream of tweets from everyone using the #brandbowl hashtag. You’ll also be able to see in-depth details on any brand: a spark line, a sentiment index, and a word cloud ofa spark line, a sentiment index, and a word cloud of the most popular terms in the brand’s tweets. 1 2 3 4 5 HOW

IT

WORKS

Without a vision embraced by
partners and leaders, you don’t know what you are trying achieve.

If you don’t have a
vision committed to ink, ask your key team to write down what they think it is.

Lesson Aspire to the seemingly
unattainable. Make it a stretch. Write it down. Start doing it. Stay focused and relentless.

Culture

Shared values, attitudes, standards, and
beliefs that characterize a company and inform its behavior.

It’s also something you can
feel.

“Here’s your share of last
quarter’s profits.” Jim Mullen as he handed me a check for $5000 after my first two months.

Collective Entrepreneurialism

Everyone is an owner

Everyone is an owner We
succeed together

No separate profit centers Everyone
is an owner We succeed together

No separate profit centers Everyone
is an owner We succeed together Total transparency

No separate profit centers Everyone
is an owner We succeed together Total transparency Aggressive profit sharing

Rights and responsibilities

Rights and responsibilities Open and
honest engagement

Willingness to embrace change Rights
and responsibilities Open and honest engagement

Willingness to embrace change Rights
and responsibilities Open and honest engagement Passion for winning

Willingness to embrace change Rights
and responsibilities Open and honest engagement Passion for winning Work that mattered

“Our most valuable assets go
down in the elevator at the end of every day.”

…spreads the proceeds of the
sale to nearly all of Mullen’s 200 employees.

Lessons Better to own 50
percent of something big than 100 percent of something small.

Lessons Don’t just create a
place to work; inspire a company that people actually believe in.

Lessons Nourish your culture. It’s
not a motivational email. It’s the way you behave and what employees and clients know to be true.

Reinvention

small

small big

small big
print

small big print digital and
more

small big print digital and
more advertising

small big print digital and
more advertising pr, social media, products

small big print digital and
more advertising pr, social media, products suburbs

small big print digital and
more advertising pr, social media, products suburbs city

small big print digital and
more advertising pr, social media, products suburbs city independent

small big print digital and
more advertising pr, social media, products suburbs city independent holding company

small big print digital and
more advertising pr, social media, products suburbs city independent holding company mullen

small big print digital and
more advertising pr, social media, products suburbs city independent holding company mullen mullen/lowe

Change is hard. Usually we
are our own worst enemy. DNA, muscle memory, processes and people hold us back. Vision and culture make it easier.

Most companies talk about change
but don’t.

Senior people, often creatives, resist.

They are fearful of being
newbies, of being shown up by the kids, of not being the expert.

You can’t talk about change.
You have to do it.

the brief

the brief
the team

the brief the team the
space

the brief the team the
space the process

Acme Agency Brief Client Name
Product Job Description Business Problem Target Audience What Do We Want Them To Think Or Feel? What Is THE ONE THING The Advertising Has To Say? What Are The Support Points? Tone Of Voice Mandatories Due: Approvals: Job Number:

Acme Agency Brief Client Name
Product Job Description Business Problem Target Audience What Do We Want Them To Think Or Feel? What Is THE ONE THING The Advertising Has To Say? What Are The Support Points? Tone Of Voice Mandatories Due: Approvals: Job Number:

Acme Agency Brief Client Name
Product Job Description Business Problem Target Audience What Do We Want Them To Think Or Feel? What Is THE ONE THING The Advertising Has To Say? What Are The Support Points? Tone Of Voice Mandatories Due: Approvals: Job Number: Acme New Agency Brief Client Name Product Job Description What problem are we trying to solve for our user? Who is having this problem? What is the best way to help them solve it? What could we do or make? What would make people share it? How can they participate in the experience? What is the context (where and when) for engaging? Due: Approvals: Job Number:

Acme Agency Brief Client Name
Product Job Description Business Problem Target Audience What Do We Want Them To Think Or Feel? What Is THE ONE THING The Advertising Has To Say? What Are The Support Points? Tone Of Voice Mandatories Due: Approvals: Job Number: Acme New Agency Brief Client Name Product Job Description What problem are we trying to solve for our user? Who is having this problem? What is the best way to help them solve it? What could we do or make? What would make people share it? How can they participate in the experience? What is the context (where and when) for engaging? Due: Approvals: Job Number:

Acme Agency Brief Client Name
Product Job Description Business Problem Target Audience What Do We Want Them To Think Or Feel? What Is THE ONE THING The Advertising Has To Say? What Are The Support Points? Tone Of Voice Mandatories Due: Approvals: Job Number: Acme New Agency Brief Client Name Product Job Description What problem are we trying to solve for our user? Who is having this problem? What is the best way to help them solve it? What could we do or make? What would make people share it? How can they participate in the experience? What is the context (where and when) for engaging? Due: Approvals: Job Number:

art and copy

art and copy art, copy
and code

Problem: Help people get comfortable
using Twitter. To gauge public opinion of Super Bowl ads, we created Brand Bowl. By monitoring Twitter on Super Bowl Sunday, we were able to identify the most and least liked spots. And in doing so, we made a statement about the power of social media, conversation and community participation. Led to winning Zappos, Timberland, Olympus, Jet Blue

Make: An interactive experience to
augment a broadcast. For National Geographic Channel’s TV special “Live From Space,” we created an interactive experience unlike any other. LiveFromSpace.com synced up with the International Space Station and allowed visitors to see exactly what was happening down on Earth. Visitors could explore the top iTunes songs, YouTube videos, Twitter trends, Foursquare check- ins and more in any country around the world. Explore a world with no boundaries and no borders – just like the astronauts. Emmy Award Winner

Context/Experience: Tie into media event;
make it experiential. To get people talking about Century 21, we created a Craigslist “for sale” post for the home of Breaking Bad character Walter White. We peppered the property description with subtle, insider plot details, and included a working phone number that connected interested parties with an outgoing message from CENTURY 21. Cannes gold lion; One Show gold pencil

Developers, social media strategists, UX
designers, digital animation, art and copy all working together, sitting near each other, being equals.

The days of having a
creative idea then throwing it over the wall to the dev and asking them to make it digital are over.

Ask: Do you have the
right people?

BTW: You can’t hire change;
but you can hire great.

Ask: Has this person touched
up against famous work?

Ask: Where is tech, UX,
social, digital production located in your agency?

art
developer
copy
social
ux

Ask: Who is at the
kickoff session and where do they sit?

Ask: What defines a creative
idea?

Shut up and write.

Ask: Do you have the
right clients?

clients
services

existing
existing
clients
services

existing existing clients services new
existing

existing existing clients services new
existing existing new

existing existing clients services new
existing existing new new new

existing existing clients services new
existing existing new innovation

What about you?

Instead of absorbing basic knowledge
about all the other skills beyond your area of expertise, find one or two and become an expert at those as well. It will help you become more of a recombinant thinker and increase your value to any action oriented creative organization. Go learn about drones, augmented reality, wearable technology or personal robots. Become an expert at something other than art and copy. You’ll make better contributions to open ended assignments and be more sought out as a member of the new team.

Be the person; set the
examples; take some chances.

What, me digital?

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survey explores how orgs create growth strategies and prepare for disruption. Participate here » Live Conf. Calls Nov. 10th & 16th Join our live conversations with Gap's Dean of Global Innovation Michael Perman and General Mills innovation exec Jim Kirkwood. Gap call details » | GenMills call details » Benchmarking 2015 Do you need data to help justify, shape, and upgrade your innovation program? Download our 40-page PDF report » Four lessons from Mullen’s first Chief Innovation Officer Back in June 2009, Edward Boches became the first Chief Innovation Officer at Mullen, a Boston-based ad agency that works with household names like JetBlue, Adidas, Google, and Zappos. Immediately, like every new CINO, he set about figuring out how he could have the most impact. (Worth a read is his post on that topic, “What does it mean to be a chief innovation officer?“) We asked Boches to distill a few of the lessons he learned; he’d previously been the agency’s Chief Creative Officer, reporting to CEO. When he shifted over to the CINO role, he still reported to the CEO, Joe Grimaldi. Cajole & inspire. “My initial objective was to get the company to pull its head out of its ass with regard to digital and social media, encouraging people to use Twitter, and trying to inspire people to get inventive with new platforms. We needed to make sure we had a leadership perspective on what these things could do for our clients.” His team created Brand Bowl, a way to capture the public opinion expressed on Twitter about Super Bowl ads. He circulated experiments like the music video that Google made with the band Arcade Fire, to get the agency’s creatives to “understand what was possible with these new technologies.” Engage the young ones. Boches looked for ways to give younger employees a louder voice and higher profile within the agency, since they tended to be the most enthusiastic adopter of new social and mobile technologies. He created a public site called The Next Great Generation, edited by a twenty-something Mullen employee and focused on the interests and concerns of the Millennials. All of its textual and video content was crowdsourced from a network for college students and young bloggers. A 2011 philanthropic project, Good Belly, was conceived almost entirely by the agency’s twenty-somethings. The project invited diners at participating restaurants to snap a photo of their meal using the Instagram mobile app, and mention where they were eating it. Every time they did that, the restaurant would donate $1 to Unicef’s famine relief efforts in East Africa. “When you put the 25-year olds in a room, and don’t let their senior managers in, there’s much more experimentation and courage and collaboration,” he says. “They were fearless.” Acknowledge reality. “At every company, you are going to have people who are afraid, or who are actively obstructionist. And that’s because in every business, your self worth is defined by being an authority, the size of your office, your title, and knowing more about what you do than anyone else.” So introducing new social media tools and technologies, Boches says, involved plenty of one-on-one coaching — “making it un-intimidating, showing them how to log in, how to use a hash tag.” Generate business. “There were really no metrics that we adopted” to illustrate whether Mullen’s innovation initiatives were bearing fruit. “It was more about changing the culture and mindset.” But Boches helped create new materials that spotlighted the agency’s growing digital capabilities when its partners went out to pitch new business. “We ended up winning seven or eight new clients as a result of that,” he says. “Our social media activities were one of the reasons we were on JetBlue’s radar, and my own blogging and tweeting helped us get in the door with Google.” As in every business, it never hurts to show that the innovation team can move the needle on revenue. FOR CORPORATE INNOVATION, STRATEGY, AND R&D EXECUTIVES Contact | 855-585-0800 Subscriber Login About Subscribe Innovation Programs Accelerators & Labs Leadership Ideation & Prototyping Metrics & ROI Trends & Startups Corporate Venturing Workspace Design 2015 Benchmarking More Research Resource Center Field Studies Live Call-In Show Custom Events Calendar MemberConnect Subscriber Q&A Thought Leadership Bookstore Innovation Firms Job Listings Home Best Practices Reports Events Peer Advice Resources Listings Subscriber Benefits Search: interviews and pov

boches Orange Falls to No.
17 Florida State, 45-21 Orange to Host Wolfpack in ACC Tournament First Round Wednesday Syracuse Splits Weekend Pair With 2-0 Loss To Colonials Mindful Monday Meditation 2016 Benefits Open Enrollment Information Session - Webinar 'Trade Liberalization and Sales Firm Volatility: Evidence from India' EA and SAC presents: Dimitar Gueorguiev Move It Monday Fitness Class: Fitness Fusion Mullen chief innovation officer Edward Boches to visit Newhouse Oct. 26 How do we resolve the need and desire to control brands and messages with the equal need to let go and invite participation? The ramifications affect how we change our mindsets, our company cultures, teams, briefs and creative output. Ask Edward Boches (@edwardboches), chief innovation officer with Mullen, who will visit Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday, Oct. 26, as a guest of the Newhouse Global Leaders in Digital and Social Media Speaker Series. He will speak on “The End of Us and Them” at 6 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. His talk is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU pay lots. Follow the talk on Twitter at #NewhouseGLDSM. Boches is one of Mullen’s four original partners. Over the last 28 years he has helped define the agency’s creative standards, established its public relations group, integrated digital design and production into all of its operations and launched its growing social influence practice. In 2010, he gave up his long-held position as chief creative officer to become chief innovation officer. In his new role he focuses on emerging technologies, social platforms and changing consumer media habits to develop innovative ideas for clients and to influence the agency’s ongoing transformation. Mullen is ranked third on Advertising Age’s “Agency A-List” and has created innovative integrated digital and social campaigns for clients like JetBlue, Zappos, Google, Barnes & Noble and Olympus. Boches is a frequent speaker on industry and consumer trends. His blog, Creativity_Unbound, is part of Advertising Age’s “Power 150.” He is a member of the board of Boulder Digital Works and Spring Partners. He incubated and continues to support http://thenextgreatgeneration.com, a crowd-sourced Gen-Y blog. The Newhouse Global Leaders in Digital and Social Media Speaker Series explores innovative digital and social media engagement from around the world. Speakers represent leadership in thought and innovation in their fields. For more information about Boches’ talk, contact Betsy Feeley at (315) 443-7401 or eafeeley@syr.edu. Share this story SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY NEWS MENU ≡ speaking gigs

Lessons The difference between doing
it and not doing it is… doing it.

Lessons You can’t hire the
solution. Change, innovation, reinvention needs leaders from the top. And instigators from the bottom.

Lessons Identify the people inside
your organization who want to change and create a small army to infiltrate and spread new ideas.

Lessons Find opportunities where no
one is paying attention: small clients, side projects, tiny budgets.

Lessons Identify the resisters; convert
them or lose them.

Lessons Understand momentum and inject
all three points on the wheel.

Work
Talent
Clients

Lessons Fake it ’til you
make it.