RMR’S Recommendations For Increasing The Productivity of Your Agency By Robyn Sachs, President and CEO of RMR & Associates I wrote this article for companies who wanted to find ways to increase the productivity of their advertising and public relations agencies. If you have never worked with an agency before, we would like to share our recommendations with you. Rest assured, our team will also counsel and guide you to ensure our new partnership is a success. 1. Create a working partnership. The principals and executives of your advertising and public relations agency have marketing communications expertise in a wide variety of businesses and industries. In order to make the most of this valuable resource, treat agency members as part of your company, and include them in the strategic planning process. Because agency executives can play a powerful role in creating and promoting your public image, help them to understand what makes your [...]

Eight Sure-Fire Steps to Better Sales Collateral By Robyn Sachs, President and CEO of RMR & Associates   You're in a face-to-face meeting, and someone has asked for more information about your company, product, or service. This opportunity calls for good sales collateral. Forget the "nobody reads them" myth. The truth is a customer with a problem to solve will read your brochure to see if you can help. Sure, it takes a salesperson to close the deal on a big-ticket item or customized service; but powerful collateral keeps you in the running. Like websites, weak collateral can eliminate you before the first cut. So here are eight techniques guaranteed to put more selling power into your sales collateral.   Start selling on the cover. A marketing brochure must answer the prospect's number one question: "What's in this for me?" Waste no time getting to the answer. Put a marketing [...]

The RMR Rollers had a blast at the Junior Acheievment Bowl-a-thon! Our very own Matt Potter won the High Roller-Male award for highest score of all the men that night. Great time, great fundraiser, great cause. Check out some photos from the event here.  

Embarrassing and sly, how do these typos somehow always get past our eye? By Robyn Sachs, President and CEO of RMR & Associates   Ode to the Typographical Error... ’Till the forms are on the press, it is strange how still it keeps. It shrinks down in a corner, and it never stirs or peeps – That typographical error, too small for human eyes – ’Till the ink is on the paper, when it grows to mountain size. The boss, he stares with horror, then he grabs his hair and groans; The copyreader drops his head upon his hands and moans. The remainder of the issue may be clean as clean can be, But the typographical error is the only thing you see. — Anonymous   In our proofreading experience at RMR, we have seen how your "mind’s eye" corrects typographical errors. With this amazing brain, we've found that the [...]