Advertising Stories

Peter Levitan’s Advertising Stories delivers unvarnished, funny, even battle sagas from glib advertising agency creative directors, account managers, media geniuses, and even big brand client marketers. We’ll talk about creating ads; trying to sell them; not selling them; making the logo bigger; my dad likes his idea better; how I lost that account; how I got that ad job; plus ad agency expense account hijinks across six continents. Peter’s friends are a globe’s worth of glib, over-educated storytellers that have delivered really important cultural messages like, “Taste The Rainbow”, “What’s In Your Wallet”, “Where’s The Beef” and Uzbekistan Airlines' comforting, “Good Luck.” Join Advertising Stories every week for an off-the-rails conversation with the advertising and marketing world’s experts.

How To Be A Brilliant Podcast Guest | EP: 42

Thomas Schwab and Interview Valet - The Best System To Help You To Become A Podcast GuestA podcast guest that is on the ideal show, with the right message, the right interview technique, and effective podcast marketing wins more awareness, friends, and wonderful personal and business branding. Being a podcast guest also helps you sell more of what you are selling - ideas, products, and services. You like that. Right?So, take a listen and find out how to get rich and famous. Faster. OH, Interv...

09-20
32:37

How To Get More Advertising Agency New Business Leads. | EP: 41

Steve Ratti And The Ratti Report - Advertising Agency New Business Leads Served Up DailyAs Steve Ratti, the Managing Editor of The Ratti Report says: "Ratti Report is the leading digital newspaper for ad agencies aggressively seeking pitchable new business intel. Celebrating 10 years in publication, we continue to track down great clients for our great agency membership."The bottom line for The Ratti Report is that it delivers 1,000 or so new business leads per year - a few new ones eac...

02-24
33:54

Virtual Pitching #4 - Neuroscientist Patrick Renvoisé On Your Sales Brain On Zoom | EP: 40

Patrick Renvoisé of Sales Brain On How To Manage A Brain On ZoomJust listen to this neuroscientist on how to sell using a virtual system like Zoom.What is Patrick's Sales Brain? .... "SalesBrain is the first neuromarketing agency with a scientific persuasion model that helps companies achieve scientific growth, rapid growth and proven growth. SalesBrain increases marketing and sales performance by targeting the decision making part of your customer’s brain with a unique, award-win...

12-01
40:29

Virtual Pitching #3 - How To Control A Very Important Large Meeting. Yes, You Can Do It. | EP: 39

True Story's Elicia Putnam On Managing Large & Critical Group Retreats -- VirtuallyNo way we are going to be able to do a retreat online. Impossible. Right? Wrong.Elicia tells y'all how to guide a group that needs to get aligned, to meet their potential to talk with each other. The right way to get stuff done.This is especially important when people in the same company are hanging out faaaar apart.Elicia Putnam on Linkedin.True Story on the virtual meeting. "How to lead a retreat over Zoo...

11-18
29:26

Virtual Pitching Series #2 - How To Win A Dating App Advertising Client | EP: 38

An Advertising Agency CEO On How To Win A Virtual PitchLinda Lane Gonzalez, CEO of Miami's Viva Multicultural agency on how to win a virtual pitch. Combine Zoom + love + hooking up + a very smart advertising agency + video + influencers + interviews + keeping the ball rolling down the virtual field to go get a new client connection. This is a how-to get past not being in the same room BUT still exciting the client and winning. # 2 in this virtual pitch series. Go listen to #1 with the leading...

11-09
25:45

How To Win A Virtual Agency Pitch With Lisa Colantuono of AAR Partners. | EP: 37

The #1 Advertising Agency Search Consultant On How To Win A Virtual Advertising Agency New Business Pitch.AAR Partners' Lisa Colantuono covers the good, bad, and ugly of virtual selling. This might just be the most compelling interview I have done on Advertising Stories. 37 since June.Lisa covers how to manage the virtual "Brady Bunch room"; how to be human; the art of managing body language; what to do in advance of the session; creating creative brand differentiation; backgrounds; and even,...

10-29
01:05:23

GO: Listen To The Smartest Person In Advertising. | EP: 36

OK, The Smartest? Well, This Is, In Fact, Arguably The Truth. And, Michael Moszynski Does Have An English Accent To Boot.Michael and his Creative Director business partner Alan Jarvie built what is arguably the world's greatest global ad agency out of, get this, just one office in London. Oh, and they named it London Advertising.People, this is a learning experience. Put the headphones on and go for a walk and a listen.London AdvertisingThe London Advertising Adve...

10-22
43:16

Hi. This Is Your Bank. Give Me Your Account Number and Password | EP: 35

Malvertising Is Hijacking Your User Experience And The Advertising World. "Hello. This is Wells Fargo Bank please open this important message by sending us your account number and password. Oh, and while you are at it, how about sending us your social security number?"OK, a no go? Really? How about you send President Mugabe $25,000 for his startup in Papua New Guinea? Or, we can all just go to Amazon and buy a new Apple watch? I'll need all of your screen names, passwords, credit card, ...

10-10
37:01

How To Build A More Profitable Advertising & Digital Agency. | EP: 34

Michael Farmer... The Man Who Drives Advertising Agency ProfitabilityWant to make more bucks and smile lots running a really smart advertising or digital agency? You know what I am talkin about. WPP's founder Sir Martin Sorrell knows.Michael is the man that wrote the book: "Madison Avenue Manslaughter: An inside view of fee-cutting clients, profit-hungry owners and declining ad agencies."Plus... "Farmer & Company is the acknowledged expert on Scope of Work (SOW) management problems and ot...

10-06
42:34

How To Sell Your Digital Or Advertising Agency | EP: 33

Sooner Or Later You Will Sell Or Buy A Digital Or Advertising AgencyAdvertising Stories delivers the how-to sell and buy. Media Advisory Partners' Mark Holdreith, a specialist in M&A services for small and mid-sized marketing services and media companies, covers all the buy/sell bases. It takes planning (months if not years), understanding your motivations, building company value, and seeking smart outside guidance from guys like Mark. Hire him, and you'll make a better deal.Media Advisor...

09-24
35:59

The In House Advertising Agency - A Good Idea? | EP: 32

What Is Up With The In House Agency?Advertising Stories talked with uber-experienced Steve Morvay (Ogilvy, Saatchi, HBO and on) about the why and why should a marketer go in-house with their marketing and advertising and content development and even media buying. Seems like a good idea. Is it?Steven Morvay on LinkedInYO - Hypnotism coming: Remember to subscribe to Advertising Stories. Remember to subscribe to Advertising Stories. Remember...A nice thing for me… Feedspot has recognized Adverti...

09-17
36:45

A Most Experienced Executive Creative Director | EP: 31

Most Experienced ECD? OK, One Of Them,Of course, you can argue with my description of Patrick (Pat) Peduto. But go ahead and argue with the following...ECD on accounts like Burger King, Toyota, AT&T, Nabisco. See the list at the bottom.Author of "I Wrote The Book On Advertising"Member of the Directors Guild & commercial director.Actor.Professor.Owner of the agency RocketScience Creative.YO - Hypnotism coming: Remember to subscribe to Advertising Stories. Remember to subscribe to Adver...

09-11
37:18

The Art & Science Of Smart M&A | EP: 30

M&A Expert Dominic Rinaldi Of Sun Acquisitions On How To Buy And Sell That Special BusinessI've bought and sold and created a few businesses. I know that there is a real art to M&A and Dominic Rinaldi of Sun Acquisitions is both an artist and an advisor. These deals do not result in success without a smart consultant and that is just what Dominic brings to the table. Take a listen and get ready to learn how to do the mergers and acquisitions hustle. or is it rumble. Sun AcquisitionsDo...

08-31
30:05

A Client Search Consultant Master On How To Win Advertising Agency New Business | EP: 29

Brilliant, Actionable Thinking From A leading Advertising Agency Search ConsultantI had the great pleasure of working with Michael Keeshan who was President, COO of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising New York, global Cheif Strategic Officer of Saatchi and managing director of the agency search firm MagikBox. MagikBox managed Fortune 50 agency searches. um, like AT&T and Novartis.Michael was always the smartest and funniest guy in the room.I did this interview in 2006. It covers how adverti...

08-25
42:52

Wil Power | The Most Powerful Man In African American Marketing | EP: 28

Totally Unignorable African-American Ad Agency. L.A. Style.Wil Shelton runs L.A.'s Wil Power Integrated Marketing, a major force in African-American advertising and marketing. Here is just one not-ordinary thing that they do:"Wil Power Integrated Marketing is positioned in more than 40 urban markets nationwide with well-established business relationships with over 100,000 African American salons and barbershop nationwide and the ability to reach over 100 million consumers annually."How many a...

08-19
19:32

Kamala Harris Could Not Get A Job In Advertising | EP: 27

Who better to discuss the appalling lack of diversity within advertising and marketing universe than Wil Shelton, the CEO/Founder of L.A.'s advertising agency Wil Power Integrated Marketing. Wil Power is a unique independent African-American market expert agency. The power of Wil Power comes from its work at "Harnessing the power of word of mouth in the African American market through Urban Beauty Salon and Barbershop marketing." In this interview, I asked Wil for his thoughts on what I...

08-12
19:11

Expert Advice On How To Grow Your Marketing & Advertising Agency | EP: 26

So, You Want To Grow Your Advertising Agency - Much Faster.This just might be one of the smarter interviews about how to grow your business I've listened to (and I am less than 1/2 of the conversation). I interview Joe Koufman of Setup an Atlanta based marketing consultancy that is all about marketing client to communications marketing agency matchmaking. The kind of dating that that leads to love that every agency should want.Lots of detail in this show that will help you to get out there an...

08-09
29:37

Should You Podcast? Critical Podcasting Information From Podnews | EP: 25

Podcasting News - Some Go or No Go Podcast Information.Hi, I am Sara, Peter's AI assistant. I want to share some podcasting information from Podnews, the leading podcast news resource, and its author James Cridland.Critical questions you should be asking... Should you (podcast? Why should you podcast? What are the opportunities and issues? How many podcasts are there? How many episodes? Best length? What is 'pod fade'?That's it. Oh, to help you, I will put a link to a great podcast interview ...

08-09
02:55

Jon MacDonald | How To Sell More Stuff On The Internet. How To Use Your Noodle To Get The Job Done. | EP: 24

Jon MacDonald Of the CRO Consultancy The Good On How To Sell More Stuff By Using Science, Data, And Some Common Sense.The Good are masters at conversion rate optimization. Need a definition of conversion rate optimization? Here you go: conversion rate optimization (CRO) is a system for increasing the percentage of visitors to a website that convert into customers.Jon talks about the problems facing Internet retailers and his company's solutions. He also gets into what's up with Shopify, the m...

08-05
24:50

Advertising and Marketing School | Find That Groovy Life After Advertising | EP: 23

Is There Life After Advertising? Yes. Many.Here are some thought starters to get those next stage juices flowing.Head over here to read how Tim Ferris and Noah Kagan think that you can start a million-dollar business. LOL, yes this weekend. Want to run a "passive income" business? Well, Pat Flynn is the master who can get you started and rocking. Go to his Smart Passive Income blog for years of how to.Want a comprehensive list of online businesses that you can buy? The well-named Empire Flipp...

08-03
02:40

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