“In one of Mumbrella360’s most unusual sessions, 4 CMOs reveal what they love and loathe about their agencies – while hidden behind a screen. Mr Travel, Mr Retail, Ms Finance & Mr Alcohol revealed with session convenor and founder of New Business Methodology Julia Vargiu candid views and observations about dodgy practices, lazy work and supreme levels of services. Many in the audience wondering if it was them being talked about.”

1. Julia Vargiu, founder of New Business Methodology presents…
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2. Combined these four CMOs have…
years in marketing million budget
average age

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Brand Strategy Agencies Media Agencies
Creative Agencies PR Agencies
Design Agencies Recruitment Agencies
Digital Agencies Sales Promotion Agencies
Direct Agencies Sampling & Demonstration Agencies
Experiential Agencies Shopper Marketing Agencies
Event Agencies Social Media Agencies
Fulfilment Agencies Sponsorship Agencies
Full Service Agencies Tradeshow Producers & Wholesale Exhibitors
Market Research Agencies Web Development Agencies
Power to hire these types of agencies:

4. #1
Mr Retail

5. #1
Mr Retail
#2
Ms Finance

6. #1
Mr Retail
#2
Ms Finance
#3
Mr Alcohol

7. #1
Mr Retail
#2
Ms Finance
#3
Mr Alcohol
#4
Mr Travel

8. Do all agencies sound the same?
How can an agency truly be distinctive
from their competitors or peers?
#CMOtruth

10. What’s the best way for an agency
you’ve never heard of to persuade you
to meet with them, when you don’t
need them and you’re not looking?
#CMOtruth

12. What did an agency do to win a piece of
your business without having to pitch?
#CMOtruth

14. When should CMOs and CEOs have a
relationship with media owners?
What are the benefits or pitfalls?
#CMOtruth

16. What’s the most clever win-win
remuneration package an agency
has ever approached you with?
Did you take it?
#CMOtruth

18. Do they understand how you spend
your time and do they help you be more
efficient, or are they just making more
work for you?
What can agencies do to help elevate
the credibility of the CMO at the
executive table?
#CMOtruth

20. What do you know about what your
agencies are doing that they think
you don’t know?
#CMOtruth

22. What are the key things that make
an agency’s relationship with you
go stale?
#CMOtruth

24. What are some of the simple stupid
things you wish agencies would stop
doing?
Or has an agency done something so
stupid it jeopardised your relationship
or made you have to fire them?
#CMOtruth

26. Do marketers really want their
agencies to make money?
And why?
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28. How many of the agencies you have
worked with in your career have really
understood your business, and its
commercial realities at a depth that
you would have expected or wished?
#CMOtruth

30. What’s the one thing you wish all of
your agencies would start doing?
#CMOtruth

31. Thank You!

32. #CMOtruth | +61 408 860 471 | win@newbusiness.com.au