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How to Work With a Creative Agency - Startup Marketing
Created 10 years ago in Sales & Marketing / Advertising

Most founders have never worked with a creative agency. I will teach you how to evaluate potential agency partners, and how to ensure you get great work. I have been on both sides of the aisle: running global strategy for big brands, and running my own startup. You honestly wouldn't think this is that important, but I can't tell you how many startups get this wrong!
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Josh Chambers
Brooklyn, NY
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Founder of http://moonmarch.com , a storytelling & fundraising agency. Previously: Founder of Earmark, CNNs 'Top 15 Financial Products' of 2013-2014. Global Strategy Advertising lead on Reebok at Tribal DDB NYC.
Reviews (13)
Just one hour talking with Josh, and I have an action plan for bringing my startup to market. Between his super-relevant expertise and his friendly approach, I know I'll be leaning on Josh again in the future. Our conversation was an enormous help that both gave me a dose of reality and completely fired me up!
Source: Clarity Colleen Koch Jul 16, 2015Incredibly valuable feedback about pitching to investors. Really dug into investor psychology and how to frame various aspects of our startup vision into an investable opportunity. Two thumbs up, highly recommend for idea/beta stage startups.
Source: Clarity Michael Park Jun 30, 2015Josh is the absolute perfect fit to guide Bountiful Schools to success. He reviewed our material before the call and provided specific steps to building out a pitch plan which will work!
Source: Clarity Kelly Hansen Apr 28, 2015Josh is a tremendous strategic thinker, planner, and collaborator. He has a proven track record of assembling teams of great talent, and he couples that with an ability to motivate, rally, and spirit those around him. Clients and partners love to work with him for the same reason. His day-to-day honesty and integrity are a startlingly rare trait in this industry. Give him a challenge, give him a team, and let him get to work.
Source: LinkedIn Josh Rhode Apr 2, 2015I had the pleasure of working with Josh. He is a well versed strategist and planner who earned the respect of both our clients and our employees. Collaborative but with clear point of view, he contributed greatly to the success of all projects he led.
Source: LinkedIn Rob Rasmussen Apr 2, 2015Josh has done great work in helping clients communicate more effectively through branding, marketing and measuring (he is the master of analytics). What you might not know about Josh from his resume is that he has a super friendly personality and brings a positive energy to the team that is contagious. I enjoyed working with Josh not only because he is good at what he does, but because he makes it fun. He engages both his clients and coworkers with his creative ideas and witty sense of humor.
Source: LinkedIn Keith Muth Apr 2, 2015Josh volunteered at The Reading Connection to helpp us develop social networking strategies and leveraging platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, Chipin, and Flicker.
Josh helped us conceptualize how to manage a successful social media strategy that will help enhance TRC's external communications .
Source: LinkedIn Courtney Kissell Apr 2, 2015Passionate people like Josh stand out from those ordinary, "Just doing my job" kind of folks. He does remarkable work -- from high-level web strategy to marketing and social media exploration to measuring goal conversion and recommending improvements.
His ideas in brainstorming meetings have made every discussion/solution stronger, and clients appreciate his solid knowledge, sense of humor, and naturally approachable personality.
In short, working with Josh is a pleasure.
Source: LinkedIn Stephanie Hay Apr 2, 2015Josh came to my rescue, plain and simple. I was in the final stretch of updating my blog to Wordpress.org, wanted to upload my fancy new header....and realized that I had no clue what I was doing. I'd heard that Josh was becoming a bit of a maverick on the blogging back end, and after I checked out HIS blog I knew things would be magical. Not only that, but he was able to come through last-minute and make a super quick turnaround. He got the job done but also offered tips that I hadn't thought of, which left me with a finished look more beautiful than I intended. You can check it out at www.evange-list.com. Gracias Josh!
Source: LinkedIn Quitrina Moede Apr 2, 2015Josh’s combination of client focus, up-to-date web marketing/social networking knowledge, and keen eye for design make him a valuable asset in the area of web design. By asking key questions and listening attentively he is able to create a web-based solution which fits the needs of the client in both an aesthetically pleasing and strategic way. He is efficient and communicates clearly, patiently and effectively. I highly recommend both Josh’s work and Josh as a person.
Source: LinkedIn Jen Miller Apr 2, 2015the startups.com platform
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