Marketing Procurement

3 Steps to Benchmarking Advertising Agency Fees

For many advertisers, their expenditure on Marketing Agency Fees represents a significant investment. They, and other stakeholders like procurement and finance, want to know that they are paying a fair.

Do You Need Help With Your Agency Reviews?

Are you thinking of running an agency review? You already know that it can be a lot of work, and high risk without the right templates, tools, and even harder.

Entering 2021 Do Marketers Have To Choose Between Cost Savings and Efficiency?

The answer is no. You can choose to deliver both to your marketing organization. Let’s face it, 2020 has been a brutal year for marketers and there’s no sign heading.

Are you having trouble with your Agency fee negotiations?

Its that time of the year when you are probably scoping for your agency’s next year’s fees or at least thinking about it. We know what that can feel like,.

Flockology: Tips for riding the technology wave

Your essential monthly guide to the latest insights and trends in the world of marketing. FLOCK. NEW. WEBSITE See what’s new from our services and tools to our Flock thinking.

How to Ask the Right Questions of Your Agency

It’s fascinating how bad we are at asking for what we want.  I mean directly, boldly and clearly asking for what we want.  Here are some examples that might resonate.

How to scope your agency really badly – 5 top tips

Bad Agency scoping leads to bad relationships and bad work. Bad Scoping is bad for business (both yours and your agency). So, how come when there is $264billion in Agency.

Flock Launches Scoping Tool To Transform Agency Fee Transparency

Flock Associates – The Marketing Transformation Company – launches a new agency scoping tool to help brands better control their agency fees, promoting transparency, trust, efficiency and agility. [ London,.

Lost sight of how your agency can and does add value?

In terms of marketing, the biggest opportunity that most organisations of any size miss is the implementation of an effective supplier relationship management system. I know the “yawn” … But,.

Four Key Marketing Eco-System Trends

Flock Associates has had a busy fall season of attending and presenting at various Marketing Conferences around the world. In this brief update, we will share the key findings from.

Hot marketing procurement trends

Flock attended the Procurecon conference in San Diego, California on 12-14th November. Over 300 attendees were discussing the now, and the future of marketing procurement. Here are some of the.

Duracell Kicks Off Creative Agency Review – Flock to handle end-to-end review process

After having found its permanent home within the Berkshire Hathaway group in early 2016, the infamous Bunny brand has sent out a request-for-information to prospective creative agencies and the review.