by Joel Cohen | Jul 8, 2018 | Insights
In a recent CEO Stars session, every ad agency CEO had noticed a trend towards more clients wanting to pay their invoice with a credit card. This is a real challenge that has the potential to erode into your bottom line, especially if you end up eating the fees. If...
by Joel Cohen | Jul 6, 2018 | Insights
For ad and digital agencies, one of the biggest challenges today is retaining their millennial employees. Almost like clockwork, at the 3-year mark, they want to move on. We certainly can’t blame them; part of their DNA is to find new challenges at this young...
by Joel Cohen | Jul 1, 2018 | Insights
I’m always asked to describe the ad agency leaders who are CEO Stars’ members. Posing for pictures after our annual ‘2-Day Intensive’ in Denver, you can tell by their shoes. They’re sharp, detailed, knowledgeable, successful and...
by Joel Cohen | Jun 25, 2018 | Insights
I was asked for some advice from a veteran in the business who had seen his business cycle fluctuate to frustration. It was obviously taking a toll on him and he needed someone to talk to and some re-assuring because no matter how long you’ve been in the business,...
by Joel Cohen | Jun 18, 2018 | Insights
In June, we had our Red Zone Agency Roundtable, sponsored by CEO Stars. Attended by agency leaders, there were over 22 insights in one-hour and every one of them capable of making an enormous impact on any agency’s business and take you from the Red Zone to the...
by Joel Cohen | Jun 5, 2018 | Insights
I was a successful ad agency owner. And like you, I was running the show. A show that I thought I knew all about, (don’t we all) but was really never quite sure. Despite success, I made some bad decisions, wasted a lot of money – all the things other agency owners...