This document provides survival tips for publishers looking to offer creative services to clients. It discusses how the billing models for creative services have become more complex as new marketing disciplines have emerged. It recommends defining goals and metrics in a creative brief to help manage client expectations and projects. The document also discusses how publishers can set up an affordable marketing technology infrastructure using tools like The Marketing Manager, Zapier, and Google Analytics to help centralize data and show marketing ROI to clients without large budgets.