On-Line Training

Coming Soon!

We are starting to transition our on-site learning programs into on-line learning programs for agencies to use individually on an as-needed-basis.

Phone Consulting

The call is free! If you have a question about New Business, Client Retention, Management Concerns, or on any marketing firm topic, give us a call!

800.899.1538

Some recent engagements include:

Transformed prestigious West Coast design firm into brand consultancy resulting in a 300% growth in two years during region’s worst economic conditions.  

Helped small regional Mid-Atlantic advertising firm in a very dark-horse role up against national competitors win a prestigious national brand that doubled the firm’s size.  

Re-named, re-branded and re-positioned a Southwest media firm into a national powerhouse with triple its revenue and staff in six months.

Helped large fast-growing Southeast agency in two days clarify its brand and create an agency tour that brings the brand to life for large Fortune 500 prospects and search consultants.   

Engaged by trade association in a neighboring country to retrain the country’s entire agency account management staff in two days.  

Hired by large agency in Great Britain to restart its growth program and re-brand it so it gets in step with new industry realities.

Helped national direct response firm win $100 million account, the second one that size we helped win for the firm in three months.

Helped regional ad agency fast close three accounts, each one within 48-hours of the initial visit, and this series of wins doubled
the firm’s size within four weeks.

Trained international public relations firm on ways to avoid the need to prepare new business proposals for prospects.  

Worked with large New England agency to train its entire staff on client personality profiling in one day to boost retention.

Engaged to restructure one of the industry’s largest specialty advertising companies into self-directed teams to improve margins, speed work and aid client satisfaction.

Led management team for a multinational agency at off-site retreat to rebuild its new business program from start to finish.

Trained Southeast firm on how to revamp its account management team to operate at lower costs with project managers and
account strategists focused on delivering business-building ideas to every key client every month.  

Hired by multinational agency network to train its member presidents from around the world on best practices for making new
business pitches run by search consultants to large clients.

Helped Midwest agency settle ownership issues in one day that had caused problems and resentment for five years.

Full Service Marketing Firm Consultants

New Business: It Isn’t the Heartbeat of a Marketing Firm. It’s More Important.

One of the things Sanders Consulting Group is best known for is our new business prowess. Over the years we have taught more marketing communication people around the world more about new business than anyone else. If your firm needs more new business, you're at are at the right spot.

Strategic Direction: It's Tough to Know Where You're Going When You Don't Know What Direction To Head!

Over the last twenty years, of all the help we've provided marketing communications firms, it's our strategic advice and counsel they find most valuable.

Client Retention: Don’t Be a Revolving-Door Agency

There’s a better alternative.  Work to keep clients longer than the industry averages of 2-3 years.  To do that, you need to do three things:  1) Build a client retention culture.  2) Make sure your management team knows how to maintain a strong bond with clients.  3) Upgrade your account team and help them manage the relationship with clients, not try to control clients. We’re proud of the many agencies that have used our learning programs to keep clients much longer than industry averages.  

Management Concerns: If It Keeps You Awake At Night, We Can Help

In our work with many agency managers over the past 20 years, we have come in contact with many critical issues that make agency life more difficult than it has to be. The marketing communication business is so different and so wired up in ways different from traditional businesses, the usual business advisors that CEOs use don’t grasp the gravity of a particular situation. Lawyers, business advisors, counselors, coaches, mentors, and many others end up offering help or suggesting alternatives that you know will only make the situation worse. So the first step is to call us and talk about it.  We get it.  We understand it. And the phone call costs nothing. 

Custom Programs: Let Us Design a Custom Training Program for You

Building a custom training program for your firm isn’t that difficult or that expensive. In many cases, you can use one of our existing programs as a model and essentially customize the program to your needs. That means your firm’s name is used throughout. Your own case histories are used. The customized training program becomes part of your firm’s culture. And every new person joining the firm goes through the training as part of orientation with the training done by one of your own staff members who has been taught in a train-the-trainer program conducted by Sanders Consulting Group.

Speaking: Let Us Energize Your Next Meeting.

Over the years our best new business tool has been our public speaking at conferences, open houses, ad club meetings and more. This doesn’t mean we shill from your podium which is in very poor taste. What it means is that people hear us present solutions, how
to solve difficult problems that trouble their organizations, and then they want to use us to help their firm grow, keep clients, or improve operations in some way. And that’s the way it works. So if you’ve got an audience and a time slot, then give us a call. You’ll find that we’ll be most helpful in getting you audience energized at a rate you can afford. And I’ll personally be very disappointed if my part of your program isn’t judged most helpful and most fun.