We all stand together (sung in a frog chorus style)

I wish agencies would form some kind of union.

A charter, if you will, and only agencies who have signed up to the behaviors agreed in the charter are invited to awards and are mentioned in the trade press etc. etc.

And then agencies could stand strong against clients who treat agencies, consitently, like shit.

I don't know how it would work. But the idea that a client can fuck agencies over simply because another agency will do it for less, or quicker or whatever seems wrong.

Agencies should be prouder. Plumbers are more proud than agencies.

I guess, I'm back on this again: http://http://i-write-letters.blogspot.com/2008/07/following-client-servicing-through-to.html

If a client wants an agency, they should be bound by conduct. Or they should do their work themselves.

One example, if a client asks agencies to pitch and doesn't give the business to any of them. But takes an idea from one of the presentatiosn...BOOM!...blackballed. No agency should touch them. Fuck off. Learn some manners.

This might be a bollocks idea. But I'd like to hear the argument against.

Dave Trott

I love Dave Trott. I think he's one of the industry greats

He has a blog on his agency's website.

I think it should be on the curriculum for everyone vaguely connected with any business.

Here, he talks of planners:

http://cstadvertising.com/blog/2008/10/10/what-went-wrong/

And I agree with him. It's a good blog though. Definitely worth a daily view. It will give you a competivive edge

(Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I've been on the 70 hour week train_)