Editor's note: This article originally appeared on the Marketing Agency Insider blog Dec. 5, 2012. See the original post here.
According to the CMO Council, only 36% of marketers are firmly committed to their agencies. So, how does your agency attract, retain and grow the right accounts?
It starts with a thorough marketing assessment of your leads and clients that enables your agency to forecast potential, align expectations and build performance-driven campaigns.
By gauging the strength of an organization’s existing brand, website, marketing mix, team,technology, processes and performance, agencies can better identify areas of impact and reduce the risk of eventual churn.
This type of information can significantly improve business development and client retention processes.
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We’ve heard some incredible feedback already from agencies that have used Marketing Score as part of their business development processes during the private beta. We’re working on plans to build an agency partner program designed to help agencies secure, retain and grow their accounts.
In the short term, marketing agencies interested in using Marketing Score to assess their leads and clients can register contacts through a Google form. While your lead/client will receive Marketing Score communications as a site member, they will be filtered out of email communications promoting other agency partners' services, including PR 20/20.
Our hope is that Marketing Score becomes a valuable tool for marketing agencies, as well as a new business resource for partners throughout the agency community (i.e. we plan to share leads with certified agency partners).
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