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Guest Jennifer McGinley

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A look back at some of the worst PR blunders of 2019 and the often simple steps companies could have taken to avoid them.

Guest Randall Dobbins

Guest Sean Driscoll

For the past decade, Rohit Bhargava has written about non-obvious trends in an annual book series. He recently capped it off with a final volume: Non-Obvious Mega Trends. A self-described "reluctant futurist," Rohit went from working in agencies to examining the trends that impact business and society. In this episode, he and Chip discuss some of the observations, as well as an approach to looking...

Agencies are fundamentally a people business, but managing people is always a challenge. How do you get the best performance and the right results for clients? And what do you do when an individual falls short? That's topic that Chip and Gini explore on this week's episode. It all stemmed from a post on Reddit asking about "consequences" for agency employees. While the hosts don't like that term,...

Guest Professor M.S. Rao

Guest Richard Shuster

Guest Jeff Butler

Guest Neysha Arcelay

Guest Luni Libes

Guest Beth Barany

Guest Ted Santos

Guest Ed Brenegar

Guest Sylvia Puentes

Interview with Kerry O'Shea Gorgone from MarketingProfs about updates to the FTC guidelines for working with influencers. Kerry O'Shea Gorgone designs premium MarketingProfs training products for individual marketers and corporations at MarketingProfs. She's also a speaker, writer, attorney, and educator. She holds an MBA from Bentley University, and graduated first in her class from Suffolk Unive...

Guest Evan Hackel

A recent post on Reddit featured an agency employee venting about his experience working at his firm. The individual wrote: "I'm basically the whole editorial team (it's a small agency) and the sole account manager now. I told the boss I didn't think this was sustainable in the long run, I was just told to 'stop being negative and get on with it, or leave.'" Chip and Gini explore what it takes to...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sell your agency to one of the big holding companies? How does the dream compare to reality? What should you know before you make that decision? Mitch Joel shares the perspective of someone who has done just that. He and his partners sold Twist Image to WPP. After remaining with the firm for several years after the acquisition, Mitch is now a prolifi...

Nobody likes to think about lawyers until they need one. Agency owners are no different, but planning ahead can make a world of difference in the outcome when it comes to legal matters. Sharon Toerek, founder of Toerek Law and host of The Innovative Agency podcast brings a wealth of knowledge and experience on agency legal issues to the latest episode of Chats with Chip. She shares her experience...

Guest Holly Green

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