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Improving Client Relationships is Easier than You Think
April 18, 2016
Regular interaction with clients is a reality for most creative professionals. (They pay our bills, after all!) Yet, according to a recent industry poll, client engagement is a challenge for nearly three-quarters of creative teams. So how can you improve your client relationships? Here are three …
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Pop into Coca-Cola
April 04, 2016
By now you probably know that our next major event is the IHAF Leadership Summit, hosted by The Coca-Cola Company on April 21 in Atlanta. What you may not know is that in addition to an impressive lineup of sessions and speakers, the Summit includes an exclusive, guided VIP tour of Coca-Cola …
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A Meeting of the Minds
March 07, 2016
Next month marks a unique meeting of the minds—minds that run some of the most prestigious in-house agencies in the country, assembling for a national summit of in-house agency leaders.
Hosted by The Coca-Cola Company on April 21 in Atlanta, the IHAF Leadership Summit centers on what in-house …
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Learning from the Leaders
February 08, 2016
Throughout the year, IHAF offers a steady stream of events—our webinar series, IHAF Huddle regional discussion groups, and IHAF Annual Conference & Awards Show. In 2016, we’ve added a new event to our rotation, the IHAF Leadership Summit.
Held on April 21 at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, the …
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Three Ps to Enable Team Success
August 24, 2015
The overused and somewhat cliché phrase “doing more with less” has never been truer. Clients are demanding quality output in a lot less time and at a much lower cost than ever before. As an in-house agency, this means balancing who you say “yes” to and who you avoid in the lunchroom. With proper …
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Lessons from Four Harmonious Friends
August 10, 2015
When we were younger, team building happened all the time—without us even realizing it. As children, we learned how to get along in the sandbox, to share and play nicely with other kids. I’m reminded of an old folktale: The Four Harmonious Friends—Bird plants a seed; Rabbit waters it; Monkey …
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Collaboration Inside & Out
May 26, 2015
If orange is the new black, collaboration is the new integration.
Remember when agency integration was all the rage? Just a few years back, clients and agencies focused heavily on the importance of strategically communicating across multiple channels. While still important, integration has been …
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(25 Ways to) Love the One You’re With
May 18, 2015
When 1970’s folk rocker Stephen Stills released his break-away hit single Love the One You’re With, we’re pretty sure he wasn’t talking about internal/external agency collaboration. Regardless, Stills’ lyrics are prolific calling us to live in harmony with one another, “If you can't be with the one …
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On the Road Again
April 27, 2015
Every spring the IHAF team hits the road to host one of our most popular annual events—the IHAF Huddle traveling discussion group series. This year, we’re adding another stop to our upcoming travel calendar, the ANA Financial Management Conference in Phoenix, AZ on April 26-29th.
This four-day …
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Your Mission? Value!
February 09, 2015
IHAF is taking vision and mission one step further with this week’s webinar on proving the value of your in-house agency. The dawn of in-house agencies was prompted in large part by a desire for cost containment in the development of marketing communications. In recent years, business impact and …
