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The difference between an effective client / agency relationship and an average one is huge.

Yet being a great marketer, doesn’t always mean you are a great procurer of agencies. The selection process – which starts before you go to market and ends when you sign off the agreements – can be complex, time consuming, and oddly emotional. Sometimes you need an outsider, someone who intimately understands the other side, to work across silos and get the job done.

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I guide your team through strategic choices before you go to market, then put those decisions into action.

Expertise

Working Together

I work best as an embedded consultant. This allows me to keep an outsider perspective and to run complex programs inside your team.

 

For search and selection, I also offer a training program so you can benefit from my expertise without committing to a full consulting engagement.

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We begin working together before you go to market.

 

Engagements end:​

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  1.  when the CMO has confidence (THE MODEL)

  2.  when fees are negotiated and SOWs signed (THE PARTNERS)

  3.  when your team and partners are integrated and the work is approved for production (THE OPERATIONS) 

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Rachel is a consultant to senior marketers evolving their agency model and partners. She is also a new business leader for agencies. Before founding Ray Mays, she designed and led the new business department at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam.

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