- Not enough marketing mentors. So whose teaching marketing craft?
- Ads that win awards don’t necessarily sell more products.
- The ad industry is not investing in any self improvement. Research is non-existent. So we are all guessing.
- Tactics trump strategy. With most clients and most agencies.
- Agencies are not often enough seen as partners in the clients’ mission to build brands and drive sales.
- For too many agencies and clients, marketing equals advertising.
- Agencies (including pepper) do pitches for free.
- Everyone, and I mean everyone, has an opinion that counts on an advertisement.
- The time-frames agencies get to develop campaigns are patently inadequate. And we accept it.
- Agencies not investing enough in our people.