New Business

We’re proud to support our member agencies in all areas of business development, including prospect assessment, prospecting, virtual pitching, relationship management, agency search consultant interaction and more.

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Virtual Pitching Learn More Virtual Pitching
Relationship Management Learn More Relationship Management
Agency Search Consultants learn more Agency Search Consultants
Procurement & Finance-Related Learn more Procurement & Finance-Related
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New Business – All Materials

The Real ROI of Business Development (And Why It Really Matters)

Why should you care about ROI specifically in terms of Business Development? Bob Wiesner and Jackie Bird of The Artemis Partnership take us through the importance of smart Business Development practices that will ultimately earn your agency more money. He makes a case for “less is more” when it comes to pitching and, when you […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – August, 2021

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

Fuel Lines |

View Fuel Lines, a blog by Michael Gass, for ideas on the use of social media, content, and inbound marketing strategies to fuel agency new business.

R3 New Business League Global and US – July, 2021

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – June 2021

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

Webinar: Casey Burnett, The Burnett Collective – “What’s On Marketers’ Minds” |

This presentation was delivered to the 4A’s National New Business Committee on July 20th, 2021 by Casey Burnett of The Burnett Collective. Download the presentation here: Burnett Collective + 4A’s Presentation July 2021  

R3 New Business League Global and US – May, 2021

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – April, 2021

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – March, 2021

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – February, 2021

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – January, 2021

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

13 Questions to Help You Write a Compelling Creative Brief

Hubspot provides a guide to writing the great creative brief for ad agencies.

R3 New Business League Global and US – December, 2020

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – November, 2020

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – October, 2020

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – September, 2020

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

“Prospecting Is Not Optional” 4A’s National New Business Committee Meeting (10-29-20) |

“Prospecting Is Not Optional” with Zach Rosenberg of Zach Rosenberg Consulting, was recorded on October 29, 2020, during the 4A’s National New Business Committee meeting. View the webinar and deck here. View the webinar deck here.  

Project Management Series: Breakout Session #1 – Annual Scope of Work

This session, held on October 21, 2020, picks up from the October 6th discussion “The Annual Scope of Work Process” and responds to topics that were determined and prioritized through a poll of 4A’s Project Management and Finance Community Members. This breakout session was moderated by Jeff Thaler, a consultant to a number of organizations […]

4A’s Project Management Operations: Annual Scope of Work Process |

This is a joint meeting of the 4A’s Project Management and Regional Finance Communities held on October 6, 2020. The session was moderated by Jeff Thaler, a consultant to a number of organizations on Agency and Client-side Service Delivery, Project Management, and Operations. Jeff most recently served as the head of Program Management and Operations […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – August, 2020

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel Summary document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New […]

2020 ANA 4A’s Business Case for Relationship Management Program

“The Business Case for Relationship Management,” survey was conducted jointly by the ANA and the 4A’s and serves as a follow-up to an April 2019 4A’s report, “Relationship Management Best Practices Guidance.” The report revealed that both marketers and agencies are aligned on the benefits of a relationship management program and employ a variety of […]

R3 New Business League Global and US – July, 2020

Updated monthly, R3’s New Business League reports highlight the Creative and Media Agency new business activity on an ongoing basis. The PDFs are available for all users to view, while the Excel document, available only to 4A’s Members, includes detail related to identified wins, including the incumbent agency and the new successful agency. New Business […]

4As COVID-19 RTO Virtual Conference – How to Build Your Action Plan for Return to Office |

On Wednesday, August 12th from 3:00-4:30 pm EDT the 4A’s held their Covid-19 RTO Virtual Conference along with Bo Mitchell, President of 911 Consulting, a leading expert in the field of Emergency Response which proved to be an extremely enlightening and beneficial virtual conference for all that attended.    When the 4A’s met with our […]

4As and ANA 2020 Best Practice Guidelines for Agency Search Consultants Paper

Given the important role agency search consultants play in helping clients and agencies find the right partner, the 4A’s is pleased to have partnered with the ANA on 2020 Best Practice Guidelines for Agency Search Consultants. These guidelines are intended to align the interests of marketers and agencies around agency searches and make the process […]