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Developing Your Agency talent – talk at Leeds Digital Festival

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019

I’m talking at Leeds Digital Festival on 26th April, alongside Darren, top-flight recruiter and the man behind Character Creative. The (free) tickets to our event are here: Finding and developing your agency’s talent. Here’s the theme for the talk in a nutshell: The Agency space is more competitive than ever (there are c. 20,000 in the UK alone) and everyone …

Promoting your agency. Or, the agency’s children have no shoes..

February 26, 2019

Leeds Agency report with photo of Leeds city

The title for this post is a corruption of the old (from the 1500’s, apparently) proverb along the lines of “The Cobbler’s children have no shoes”. At the back end of last year, Data Hive examined marketing and creative agencies in Leeds and looked at how they were marketing themselves (as opposed to their clients). Robin and team assessed 243 …

Walk and Workshop service

January 31, 2019January 31, 2019

I had great feedback from an agency growth ‘Walk and Workshop’ day that I ran a couple of weeks ago for Jenni, the owner of Social Rocks: “Excellent day of business planning with agency coach Mark Kelly on Friday.” If you are an agency in the Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Liverpool corridor (or further afield: there are some great places to …

Board Advisor with Greater Connected Amplify

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019

I’m really pleased to be supporting the Greater Connected Amplify programme as one of the Board Advisors to the initiative. #AgencyGrowth in action. Amplify sits within the Business Growth Hub’s ‘Greater Connected’ programme, focusing on Manchester / Greater Manchester based digital, creative and tech agencies and businesses. The BA team and the guys behind Form, who are delivering the whole …