The New Business Dingo

With each new client and consulting workshop we undertake, I inevitably get asked who the leading ad agency search consultants are, and how to contact them. Over the past several years the consultants below (listed below simply in alphabetical order) have run the majority of searches that our clients have either been involved in, or would have liked to been considered for. A larger list can be found on the 4A's website here.

 In reaching out to the consultants, a few words of advice following this year's Mirren New Business Conference;

 - "Be relevant and demonstrate an expertise"

 - "Keep us posted on your agency news, it's our job to know who's doing what and how in the industry"

 - "Create a profile or fill out the online forms rather than send us physical packages"

 - "If you do send a package, we expect you to follow up"

And my favorite;

 - "Please don't send 'living' packages such as butterflys and flowers - if I'm out of town they'll not have the 'pop' you'd hope for"

An asterisk (*) indicates those search consultants who have singed the AAAA/ANA jointly endorsed “Rules of the Road” for search consultants.

1. *AAR Partners
Leslie Winthrop
155 East 55th Street, Suite 5C
New York, NY 10022
Tele #: 212.644.0790
Fax #: 212.644.0919
Direct Line: 212.400.1480
winthrop@aarpartners.com
www.aarpartners.com

2. *Ark Advisors, LLC
Russel Wohlwerth
7848 West 80th Street, 2nd Floor
Playa del Rey, CA 90293
Tele #: 310.841.4502
Fax #: 310.841.4597
russelw@ark-advisors.com
www.ark-advisors.com

3. *The Bedford Group, Inc.
Jane Bedford
3343 Peachtree Road NE, Ste 333
Atlanta, GA 30326
Tele #: 404.237.4565 x225
Fax #: 404.846.2172
bedford@bedfordgroupconsulting.com
www.bedfordgroupconsulting.com

4. *Hasan + Co.
Hasan Ramusevic
4700 Falls of Neuse Road, Suite 130
Raleigh, NC 27609
Tele #: 919.713.0700
Fax #: 919.713.0703
Mobile #: 919.264.6198
hasan@hasanandco.com
www.hasanandco.com

5. *Joanne Davis Consulting
Joanne Davis
325 East 57th Street, #7D
New York, NY 10022
Tele #: 212.935.0320
Fax #: 212.223.2932
joanne@joannedavisconsulting.com
www.joannedavisconsulting.com

6. *Jones Lundin Beals
Brian Goodall, General Mgr.
15 West 53rd Street, #9J
New York, NY 10019
Tele #: 212.956.9799
brian@jlbeals.com
www.jlbeals.com

7. *Mercer Island Group
Stephen Boehler
8321 41th Street SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040
Tele #: 206.236.0447 x105
Fax #: 206.236.1147
steveb@migroup.com
www.migroup.com

8. *Pile & Company
Judy Neer, President
800 Boylston Street, 14th Floor
Boston, MA 02199
Tele #: 617.267.5000
Fax #: 617.421.1899
jneer@pilenet.com
www.pileandcompany.com

9. *The Rojek Consulting Group, Inc.
Lorraine Rojek, President
CrownCenter –Suite 600
5005 Rockside Road
Cleveland, OH 44131
Tele #: 216.573.3780
Fax #: 216.573.3796
lrojek@rcgconsulting.com
www.rcgconsulting.com

10. *Roth Associates
Richard Roth
120 East 79th Street, Suite 5C
New York, NY 10021
Tele #: 212.861.9420
Fax #: 212.861.9425
rroth@askroth.com
www.askroth.com

11. *Select Resources International
Catherine Bension
3000 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite 3000
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Tele #: 310.450.5777
Fax #: 310.450.9097
catherine@selectr.com
www.selectresources.com

A full list of ad agency search consultants:
http://www2.aaaa.org/pubs/resources/consultants/Documents/agency_search.pdf

Happy Hunting,

The New Business Dingo