Tag: consulting
Marketing Firm Atlanta: How to Choose the Right Partner and What High Performance Looks Like
If you searched marketing firm Atlanta, you are likely not looking for a “creative vendor.” You are looking for a partner that can drive measurable growth, protect your brand and give you a clear path from strategy to execution.
Atlanta is a serious business market. It is home to global headquarters, high growth mid-market companies and ambitious owner led firms across technology, logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, professional services and retail. That means your marketing cannot be generic. It needs to be built around your category dynamics, your buyer journey, your internal capacity and your commercial targets.
This guide is designed to help you evaluate a marketing firm in Atlanta with a practical decision framework, and to show what a modern, outcomes-driven marketing program should include.
Why professional services firms are scared to stand out from the crowd
When you look at financial services firms, the first thing that comes to mind is accounting, financial planning, legal and management consulting firms. Although the breadth of professional services firms is much greater than that and includes marketing and recruitment, it’s our financial and legal counterparts that really struggle to stand out from the crowd.
Why marketers should be afraid for their jobs
Being afraid for your job can be deliberating. It can create the wrong type of mindset where marketers are afraid to make the wrong choice or stop progress due to the fear of their job becoming redundant.
After interviewing more than 30 marketers over the past few months, it has become apparent that the biggest issue that marketers are facing is their ability to keep their jobs and remain secure, when in fact, the whole industry was built on risk.
Risky marketing tactics that paid dividends made entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. Nike didn’t hold back when they called out golf courses that had bans on certain ethnic groups playing on their courses with Tiger Woods advertising campaign, and again with BLM campaigns that cut through the clutter and while they may have offended a few, the marketing campaigns paid dividends.
Sales will NOT fall into your lap by accident
But what if the results are not forthcoming? What if key people have read the strategy yet are not "making it happen"? As we near the end of January, many companies are realizing that targets are not being met, and while some may scratch their heads, the real leaders are taking action.
IT firms hang on in wake of GFC

The IT industry is buying less hardware, says Andrew Thomas
It’s been a year of mixed fortunes for IT businesses.