How to Build and Manage a Digital Agency or Division — An Executive Course
Intelligent Approaches to a Complex Business

Laredo Group Course Completion Certificate Digital Agency
This course provides agency executives and senior managers with in-depth information on how to successfully expand your services to include digital capabilities. In this course you will learn about the similarities, differences and nuances relating to digital staffing, processes, technology, culture, and economics.

Clients demand integrated services from their agencies, and this course will empower you with the knowledge required to create and execute a plan to develop or expand your digital capability and transform your traditional agency into a truly integrated agency.

  Who Should Attend, Agenda, Learning Objectives and Course Outline

Who Should Attend

  • CEO, CFO, Entire C-level Suite
  • General Manager
  • Owner
  • Partner
  • President
  • Vice President
  • Business Development Director
  • Business Development Executive
  • Media Director

 


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Agenda for All Courses (details subject to change)


8:30 - 9:00AM Sign-In/Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10:15AM Morning Session
10:15 - 10:30AM Morning Break/Refreshments
10:30 - 12:00PM Morning Session Continued
12:00 - 12:45PM Luncheon Served
12:45 - 2:00PM Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:15PM Early Afternoon Break/Refreshments
2:15 - 3:15PM Afternoon Session Continued
3:15 - 3:30PM Afternoon Break/Refreshments
3:30 - 4:20PM Afternoon Session Continued
4:20 - 4:30PM Wrap-Up/Q&A
   

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the digital needs of their current and prospective clients
  • Understand the traits unique to interactive and integrated agencies
  • Know how to staff their interactive agency or division
  • Know how to assign responsibilities to staff
  • Know which technologies they need to run a successful digital media division
  • Be able to forecast expenses and budgets for their interactive agency or division
  • Be able to develop a launch strategy
  • Be able to identify and hire the right talent to start or run their interactive agency or division

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Course Outline  
Overview, Market Trends
  • Digital media trends
  • The changing landscape
  • What clients expect
  • Traditional agency challenges
  • What’s the same?
  • What’s different?
  • Competitive agency landscape

Understanding Digital Services
  • Traits of successful integrated agencies
  • Unique attributes, advantages of digital media
  • Staffing: roles and responsibilities
  • Understanding the media options
  • Digital process

The Role of Digital Marketing Technologies
  • An executive’s guide to technology’s role
  • Creating efficiency amidst complex processes
  • Required marketing technologies and research

 

 

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Planning for Digital Services
  • Assessing current situation framework
  • Projecting potential revenue streams
  • Expenses and budgeting
  • Planning for a revitalized agency culture
  • Fostering integrated thinking
  • Staffing approach
  • Outsourcing
  • Planning for growth

Launching Your Digital Services
  • Compensation models
  • Pitching new business
  • Launch strategy
  • Competing with established players

Growing a Digital Department
  • Adding complementary digital services
  • Focusing on margins
  • Acquiring another agency
  • Hiring key senior talent

Discussion and Wrap-up
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All Laredo Group Courses are designed to enable students to immediately understand and engage in interactive digital media and marketing in its many forms. They are for all who need an understanding of Internet advertising best practices, ad programs, vocabulary, how ads are delivered and measured, how to differentiate and use branding versus direct response ads, and to understand the opportunities and limitations of what can be accomplished with online advertising and how this benefits advertisers. A limited number of students is allowed in each course, so each student can be assured of maximum interaction and learning and robust program presentation and curriculum, comprehensive manual and experienced instructors...in a setting that allows for greater interaction between instructors and students, providing more immediately relevant dialogue and information for each individual student.

Note: All Laredo Group courses are updated and modified frequently to reflect the rapidly evolving and changing online advertising and media industry. All course outlines are therefore subject to change without notice.

 
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