With over 30 years’ experience at the sharp end of business development, we have witnessed absolute talent and frankly, downright nonsense when it comes to agencies trying to win new clients. Here are just a few examples of what NOT to do: 1.    Over-promise and under-deliver. Sounds obvious but it’s actually quite difficult to put … Read More

The latest Bellwether report from the IPA has stated that marketing budget growth hit its slowest rate in three years during the third quarter of 2018. You can read the report here but one major factor seems to be uncertainty over Brexit, with marketers adopting a cautious stance. A few snippets taken from this report claim … Read More

After enjoying the hottest summer on record, it’s hard to believe that we are now entering autumn and before you know it winter will be upon us. However, before you get too depressed at the nights drawing in and settle down for evenings binge-watching box sets instead of enjoying BBQs in the garden, there is … Read More

As a well-established business development agency with a good spread of clients across the UK, we have noticed an upward trend in the success of Yorkshire based agencies winning new business. With this in mind, we decided to chat to a range of agencies based across Yorkshire, including creative, digital, integrated and specialists (like sound … Read More

This is a guest blog from our friends at WordUp who provide a range of content marketing and copywriting services for agencies. The past few years have seen brands embrace content marketing like a long lost twin, and they don’t look like letting go anytime soon. Agencies on the other hand continue devoting great effort … Read More

How will GDPR affect your agency’s new business efforts? Like it or not, the new GDPR regulations are just a few months away now. Unless you’ve been living in a cave it is almost impossible to avoid the constant bombardment of information and advice from all directions about what your business needs to do to … Read More

If you’re thinking of running your own events to generate new business, here are a few key tips to consider before starting. Successful events can build your profile, provide great content, as well as acquire new clients. Luckily, Alchemis can help you with all of them! Purpose – you need to be very clear from … Read More

The latest IPA Bellwether report makes for an interesting read, about UK marketers’ digital budgets increasing at their highest rate in a decade. All this sounds encouraging on the surface, but is tempered by words of caution from industry luminaries. It’s certainly relevant and interesting for the range of digital agencies that we help with … Read More

I’ve just celebrated my two year anniversary at Alchemis, a Business Development Agency specialising in the marketing and creative sectors. For me this is a great personal achievement, as anyone who has worked in a sales or new business environment will know that two years in a sales role is practically the equivalent of lawyer … Read More

In the “good old days” before the internet and when you could leave your front door open and nobody would rob you, you might have been forgiven for thinking that large companies with their fancy brands based in Central London wouldn’t ever consider working with a regional agency in somewhere like Bristol, Birmingham or Sheffield. There … Read More