Pile Turns 30
Friends of Pile, It’s amazing how fast 30 years go by. I’ll admit that when my friends Skip Pile and Rick Hooker left the agency world to start their own company 30 years ago, I was impressed.
The Real Question of Consultancy vs. Agency
How’s your relationship? This is the question I would ask any agency worried, or wondering if they should start worrying, about the rise of consultancies as advertising partners.
Creative, Marketing and In-House Staffing: An Update from Pile’s Divisions
You often hear from me on Pile Consulting, but I thought I might share a few industry insights from two of our divisions—Communications Collaborative, our creative and marketing staffing arm, and IHAF, our professional association for in-house agencies.
5 Questions Clients Are Asking About Their Agencies
The client-agency relationship is a funny thing. On the one hand, you have a uniquely close partnership predicated on trust, common ground and shared goals. On the other, you have a tenuous, fickle arrangement fraught with questions. And for a while, “questions” were viewed as the enemy of the client-agency relationship. If a client was asking questions, it meant something was wrong.
Meghan McDonnell Named President, Pile Consulting
As 2016 winds down, I wanted to share some exciting news. I’m thrilled to announce that Meghan McDonnell has been named President, Pile Consulting.