2Bobs—with David C. Baker and Blair Enns

By David C. Baker and Blair Enns

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Peter
 Feb 12, 2022
If you work in a digital or creative agency this is a top podcast. Don't miss the back catalogue - there is so much valuable sales advice.

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Conversations on the art of creative entrepreneurship with David C. Baker and Blair Enns

Episode Date
The Barbell of Pricing Risk
Dec 18, 2024
Selling Your Professional Services Firm
Dec 04, 2024
Questions, Not Answers
Nov 20, 2024
Assume an Advantaged Player
Nov 06, 2024
The Four Conversations: A New Model for Selling Expertise
Oct 23, 2024
200th Episode Special
Oct 09, 2024
How Account Managers Deliver Strategy
Sep 25, 2024
How to Avoid Commodifying Your Offering
Sep 11, 2024
Are Email Newsletter Even Viable Anymore?
Aug 28, 2024
How to Make Horizontal Positioning Work
Aug 14, 2024
Are You Fishing in the Right Pond?
Jul 31, 2024
Leading in a Chaotic World
Jul 17, 2024
Creating a Premium Pricing Culture
Jul 03, 2024
Building a Scalable Sales Strategy
Jun 19, 2024
Have We Hit Peak Strategy?
Jun 05, 2024
What Tech Bros Get Right...and Wrong
May 22, 2024
Turning Your Delivery Team Into a Sales Team
May 08, 2024
Advising Clients Ethically
Apr 24, 2024
Just Stop Talking
Apr 10, 2024
Working With a Maverick
Mar 27, 2024
The Dichotomy of the Expert Salesperson
Mar 13, 2024
Maximizing Pro Bono Opportunities
Feb 28, 2024
Attending the Way
Feb 14, 2024
A 7-part Theory of Principal Compensation
Jan 31, 2024
The Time Value of Knowledge
Jan 17, 2024
Revisiting Remote Work
Jan 03, 2024
Ditch the (Sales) Script
Dec 20, 2023
Constrained by Artificial Boundaries
Dec 06, 2023
A Theory of Leisure
Nov 22, 2023
The Death Throes of the Pitch
Nov 08, 2023
How Much Should You Spend on Your Own Marketing?
Oct 25, 2023
The Conflicting Ethics of Selling and Negotiating
Oct 11, 2023
Doing Employee Orientation Right
Sep 27, 2023
The War on Payment Terms
Sep 13, 2023
What Your Team Wants From You
Aug 30, 2023
How to Ask for Referrals
Aug 16, 2023
How to Make Referrals
Aug 02, 2023
Do You Even Need New Business People?
Jul 19, 2023
Predictive Traits of Successful Owners
Jul 05, 2023
Six Barriers to New Business Success
Jun 21, 2023
Ten Questions I Want to Ask You
Jun 07, 2023
Qualities of the World’s Best Project Managers
May 24, 2023
CRM and the Mistakes to Avoid
May 10, 2023
Why We Suck at Negotiating
Apr 26, 2023
Developing a Client Conflict Strategy
Apr 12, 2023
Inbound, Outbound, and In Between
Mar 29, 2023
The Perils of "Good/Better/Best" Pricing
Mar 15, 2023
Reverse Trojan Horse Syndrome
Mar 01, 2023
Is Your Firm Addicted to New Business?
Feb 15, 2023
Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors
Feb 01, 2023
Innoficiency in Your Agency
Jan 18, 2023
Churn, Baby, Churn
Jan 04, 2023
Reboot Your Culture Through New Business
Dec 21, 2022
Who Should Be Promoted?
Dec 07, 2022
Maintaining the Expert Position...After the Sale
Nov 23, 2022
When Your Engagement Level Drops
Nov 09, 2022
The Marketing Procurement Problem
Oct 26, 2022
The Agency Gatekeeper
Oct 12, 2022
Prostitutes and Scope Creep
Sep 28, 2022
How Would You Prepare for a Downturn?
Sep 14, 2022
Selling Should Be Fun or You Aren't Doing It Right
Aug 31, 2022
Models Everywhere
Aug 17, 2022
How Categories and Positioning Options Might Change
Aug 03, 2022
The Evolution of a Marketing Firm
Jul 20, 2022
Shortcomings of the EBITDA Multiplier
Jul 06, 2022
The Emotional Journey of Buying and Selling
Jun 22, 2022
Hard Lines, Soft Lines
Jun 08, 2022
Designing Your Service Offerings
May 25, 2022
Secrets Behind the Killer Website
May 11, 2022
Why All My Content Is Ungated
Apr 27, 2022
Selling to Different Buyer Types
Apr 13, 2022
The Power of Process
Mar 30, 2022
What Would YOUR Employee Review Look Like?
Mar 16, 2022
Secrets Behind the Killer Proposal
Mar 02, 2022
Six Hidden Benefits of Client Concentration
Feb 16, 2022
Everything Can Change in One Conversation
Feb 02, 2022
Languishing
Jan 19, 2022
Your Job Is the Future—Theirs Is to Keep You Honest in the Present
Jan 05, 2022
Sales Clichés and the Damage Done
Dec 15, 2021
Ten Set Pieces
Dec 01, 2021
Collecting From Deadbeat Clients
Nov 17, 2021
Firing a Client
Nov 03, 2021
Attribution Errors
Oct 20, 2021
How to Write That Book
Oct 06, 2021
Should You Write That Book?
Sep 22, 2021
Are You Ready for a Minority Partner?
Sep 08, 2021
Approaching Normal
Aug 25, 2021
Talking About Mental Health
Aug 11, 2021
Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Jul 28, 2021
Five Levels of Pricing Success
Jul 14, 2021
Your Four Advantages Over an In-House Department
Jun 30, 2021
A Ten Year Retrospective on the Manifesto
Jun 16, 2021
What an Acquirer Will - and Will Not - Care About
Jun 02, 2021
You Contain Multitudes
May 19, 2021
The Challenges of Growing Too Quickly
May 05, 2021
The Tao of No
Apr 21, 2021
What a Normal Person Thinks of Your Creative Firm
Apr 07, 2021
Communication Components in Your Sales Toolbox
Mar 24, 2021
Performance Bands
Mar 10, 2021
Creative Bullshit Bingo
Feb 24, 2021
Is "Agency" Still the Right Word?
Feb 10, 2021
Let's Talk About Money
Jan 27, 2021
The Enemy Within
Jan 13, 2021
Holding Opposite Perspectives in a Healthy Tension
Dec 30, 2020
Slapping Down Your Childlike Glee
Dec 16, 2020
Myth of "I Just Need More Opportunities to Get in Front of Prospects"
Dec 02, 2020
Big Clients Vs Small Clients
Nov 18, 2020
The Great Migration
Nov 04, 2020
Foibles of an Executive Leadership Team
Oct 21, 2020
Transcending Timesheets
Oct 07, 2020
How Our Deepest Fears Shape Our Approach to Business
Sep 23, 2020
Objections to Specialization
Sep 09, 2020
Do Generalists Really Triumph Over Specialists?
Aug 26, 2020
The Rungs You Can Reach on the Ladder of Lead Generation
Aug 12, 2020
The Journey From Generalist to Specialist
Jul 29, 2020
How and When to Talk About Your Firm
Jul 15, 2020
Four Regrets You're About to Have
Jul 01, 2020
When to Shut Up and Listen and When to Speak Up
Jun 17, 2020
Critical Questions Your New Business Person Should Be Able to Answer
Jun 03, 2020
The Hate Sandwich You're About to Eat
May 20, 2020
Will You Be My Friend
May 06, 2020
Changes in the Agency Client Landscape
Apr 22, 2020
Business As Unusual - Managing in a Pandemic
Apr 08, 2020
When Rightsizing Makes Sense...And How to Do It
Mar 25, 2020
The Power of Options
Mar 11, 2020
How Digital Firms Are Different
Feb 26, 2020
The Impact of Agile in the Real World
Feb 12, 2020
Phase Your Client Engagements
Jan 29, 2020
Understanding Account People
Jan 15, 2020
What Leverage Do You Have With Client Contracts and MSAs?
Jan 01, 2020
When You Put Someone Else In Charge of Your Firm
Dec 18, 2019
Productized Vs Customized Services and Monthly Recurring Revenue
Dec 04, 2019
Which RFPs Should You Respond To?
Nov 20, 2019
A Podcast After-Action Review
Nov 06, 2019
Common Traits of Success
Oct 23, 2019
The Only New Business Indicator That Matters
Oct 09, 2019
Taking the Team Seriously
Sep 25, 2019
Top Ten New Business Development Myths
Sep 11, 2019
Six Staffing Blunders
Aug 28, 2019
Making Adversarial Assumptions in the Sales Process
Aug 14, 2019
Building Your Personal Brand
Jul 31, 2019
Can We Learn Anything From the Consulting Firms?
Jul 17, 2019
Be the Client You Want to See in the World
Jul 03, 2019
Size Matters
Jun 19, 2019
Different Pricing Models
Jun 05, 2019
Greatness Requires Discomfort
May 22, 2019
Selling to Clients With In-house Resources
May 08, 2019
Things Principals Should Do More Of
Apr 24, 2019
There Are NOT Seven Reasons Why Clients Hire You
Apr 10, 2019
Where Do Ideas Come From?
Mar 27, 2019
It's a Small World After All
Mar 13, 2019
Why Account People Should Close New Business
Feb 27, 2019
A Beginner's Guide to Negotiating
Feb 13, 2019
Seven Positioning Mistakes to Avoid
Jan 30, 2019
Debriefing After a New Business Call
Jan 16, 2019
Shoot - Now What Do We Do?
Jan 02, 2019
Selling in One Lesson
Dec 19, 2018
The Risk Episode
Dec 05, 2018
Open Book Management
Nov 21, 2018
Alternative Forms of Reassurance
Nov 07, 2018
Seven Strategies to Grow Accounts
Oct 24, 2018
The Best Ways to Disrespect Account People
Oct 10, 2018
The Seven Masteries of the Rainmaker
Sep 26, 2018
If I Were Starting Over
Sep 12, 2018
The X-Factor
Aug 29, 2018
Starting...Existing...Thriving
Aug 15, 2018
Replacing Presentations With Conversations
Aug 01, 2018
Reviewing the "Surveillance Footage"
Jul 18, 2018
Hacking Heuristics
Jul 04, 2018
Collaborating with Competitors
Jun 20, 2018
Four Segments of New Business
Jun 06, 2018
Using Assessment Instruments in Your Firm
May 16, 2018
Thoughts on Partnership
May 02, 2018
What Good Clients Are Really Looking For
Apr 18, 2018
Mastering the Value Conversation
Apr 04, 2018
Defining Success for Creatives
Mar 21, 2018
Words That Make Us Wince
Mar 07, 2018
Positioning Cheats
Feb 21, 2018
Words We Try to Define
Feb 07, 2018
The Business of Expertise - Part 3, Live from London
Jan 24, 2018
Pricing Creativity
Jan 10, 2018
Planning for the New Year
Dec 27, 2017
Valuing and Selling Your Firm
Dec 13, 2017
The Complexities of Commission Culture
Nov 29, 2017
The Role of Profit in a Creative Enterprise
Nov 15, 2017
Mea Culpa
Nov 01, 2017
The Science Behind Structuring Roles
Oct 18, 2017
The Business of Expertise - Part 2
Oct 04, 2017
Seven Words You Can't Say in Business Development
Sep 20, 2017
Paid Time Off or Earned Time On
Sep 06, 2017
An Introduction to Blair Enns
Aug 23, 2017
How to Drive Your Employees Bat Sh*t Crazy
Aug 09, 2017
Being Like Everyone Else
Jul 26, 2017
An Introduction to David C. Baker
Jul 12, 2017
How Much Should You Write?
Jun 28, 2017
The Business of Expertise - Part 1
Jun 14, 2017
What Happens When You're Away
May 31, 2017
Why Advertising Agencies Don't Advertise
May 17, 2017
Thriving In the Middle of the Road
May 03, 2017
A Sales Skeptic Interviews a Sales Expert
Apr 19, 2017
Five Irrational Fears
Apr 05, 2017
The New Entrepreneur
Mar 15, 2017
Truths and Myths About Money
Mar 01, 2017
Say What You Think
Feb 15, 2017
How Not to Act Like an Expert
Feb 01, 2017