For Customer Experience Professionals (Length: 26 pages)

November 5, 2007

How To Hire The Right Interactive Design Agency

What Every Client Should Know Before Issuing An RFP For Web Design Work

by Kerry Bodine

with Harley Manning, Andrew McInnes, Steven Geller

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

The interactive agency selection process is tough. Narrowing the field from hundreds of potential players to just one partner can be a daunting task — one that can make or break a Web exec's career. Today this process is harder than ever because the Web design industry has shifted to a seller's market. Worse, prospective clients often have unrealistic expectations that stem from traditional advertising relationships and an RFP process that's hardly changed over the past 50 years. What Web execs need now is a better way to approach the hiring process. Specifically, they need to commit both time and resources to five major steps: advanced preparation, request for information (RFI) and request for proposal (RFP) creation, courtship, evaluation, and negotiation.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemHiring An Agency For Web Design Work Is Challenging

itemProspective Clients Face A New Balance Of Power

itemIt's Not All Rosy For Interactive Agencies Either

itemThe Hiring Process For Web Design Work Is Broken

itemWeb Execs Need A New Agency-Hiring Process

itemAdvanced Preparation: Reach Internal Alignment

itemRFI And RFP Creation: Whittle Down Your Choices

itemCourtship: Get To Know Your Agency Team

itemEvaluation: Focus On Strategic Thinking, Proven Results, And Chemistry

itemNegotiation: Seamlessly Seal The Deal

recommendations

itemConsider A Search Consultant

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester interviewed more than 25 interactive marketing agencies and agency clients, including: Arc Worldwide, Avenue A | Razorfish, Bank of America, The Coca-Cola Company, Critical Mass, Digitas, DraftFCB, Fry, L'Oreal, Ogilvy, Organic, R/GA, Sapient, Tribal DDB, Whirlpool, and WHITTMANHART.

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Technology: Customer Experience, Customer Experience Management, Emerging Marketing Channels, Interactive Marketing, Marketing & Advertising, Marketing Automation, Marketing Service Providers
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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