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The Bedford Group

Atlanta, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

Philosophie & Wettbewerbsvorteile

Agency Search and Selection

Searching for a new, compatible marketing partner can be extremely time-consuming and disrupt current marketing initiatives. The Bedford Group's goal is to simplify the search and selection process to create the most strategic match of partners while minimizing any disruption of daily business. Based on a comprehensive evaluation of the client’s needs, we "prescreen" candidate firms and present our client with a set of candidates that are both compatible and qualified. Our intervention minimizes the duration of the search and ensures the partner selected is aligned with our client’s objectives and culture. This alignment, across a wide range of dimensions, is the foundation of a successful alliance.

We can help assess and select any number of marketing partners including:

Client-Agency Relationship Evaluation

Inevitably, many relationships encounter rough terrain. Poor leadership or strategic advice, diminished creative quality, bottlenecks, and management restructuring are a few of the issues that contribute to the deterioration of a partnership. Some relationships will not endure. But, difficulty does not necessarily mean the partnership must be abandoned. Sometimes, it is in the best interest of all parties to terminate the relationship. If necessary, we can assist in negotiating terms of the termination. More importantly, we help you select a new, more compatible marketing partner and provide transition tools to be used in the move from old partner to new. We can help evaluate and improve your client-agency relationships through:

Marketing Communications Strategy

Strategically focused communication is vital to the success of any organization. Over time, the internal and/or external communications efforts may become unfocused, internally focused or simply poorly executed. The Bedford Group can provide an objective, independent analysis of the impact, consistency, and appropriateness of your internal and external messages. In addition, we can evaluate the staff, structures, processes, and agencies you rely on to create your communications messages and materials.

Services include:

Marketing Organization Design

Your marketing structure directly impacts the ability to respond quickly to the unique dynamics of your industry, marketplace, and corporate objectives. Far too often, marketing organizations find themselves less effective because they are disconnected from the business they are supporting, are structured to meet yesterday’s demands, or have experienced a talent-drain. Over time, the function can lose touch with the marketing knowledge and skill levels needed by the company, becoming distanced from those driving the business in sales, the market and executive management. Many companies struggle with the balance of centralized vs. decentralized marketing resources and the reporting relationship between the two. Unresolved, these issues can lead to inefficiencies that influence the overall corporate structure. Noticeable gaps and redundancies may propagate throughout the company.

Our areas of expertise include: Marketing organization assessment and design

Marketing Resource Assessment

The Bedford Group’s review of Internal Marketing Resources provides an evaluation of your internal marketing department against Best Practices of other corporate organizations.

Our assessment includes:

The Bedford Group is experienced at extrapolating assessment data into both snapshot and expanded analyses and strategic plans, developing a more focused and higher performing organization. Our firm provides direction on process improvements, training sessions, competency models and job descriptions.