New Pilot Program from Agency SOS

A faster, better way for brand leaders to get smart strategy and great creative ideas

If you saw our recent agency update, you know that we’ve been working hard to unravel a riddle:

“How can we deliver high-quality marketing help to brand leaders FAST with less hassle…for us and our clients?”

It’s a deceptively tricky question. One I’ve wrestled with since we opened the agency last year.

After all, most of my past experience is inside the full-service agency model — bespoke engagements, high-touch with lots of bodies on every account, a zillion meetings, and a huge variety of deliverables.

Clients get great work…BUT, it takes a long time, a lot of people, and it’s expensive as hell, for both the client and the agency.

One of the mistakes new creative agencies make is trying to be a mini version of the big boys. But when you scale down those operations to a smaller footprint, you just end up with a few people wearing a million hats and clocking longer hours.

It can work for a while, but it’s not a sustainable, scalable model for the long term.

Time To Focus

We spent a good chunk the summer taking a look at our approach.

Long story short: after years of telling clients to simplify and focus, I’m taking my own advice.

Agency SOS is launching a pilot program in September for two new core offerings — a 6-Week Brand Strategy Bootcamp and a 30-Day Creative Campaign Accelerator.

Born from lots of client listening and a deep unpacking of our process and expertise, we’re excited to launch a faster, better way to get smart strategy and great creative ideas.

You can read all about it here. Or watch the two-minute overview:

And if you REALLY want a deep dive, you can watch a longer breakdown of each of the programs:

Read more about our Brand Strategy Bootcamp

Read more about our Creative Campaign Accelerator

Feedback and questions are welcome!

And if you know of brand leaders that might benefit from our approach, point ’em our way. We hope to enroll 2–3 brands to be part of our pilot program in the weeks ahead.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Kovacevich is a creative director and the founder of Agency SOS. He writes a weekly newsletter with three bits of creative inspiration for modern marketers. You should subscribe; it’s good.