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The Marketing Agency Roadmap for Turning IP into Money – Part 2: Cover Your Assets

In previous posts here and here, I reviewed methods for discovery and auditing your marketing agency’s intellectual property, with a view toward capitalizing on those assets to enhance the Agency’s value or create additional revenue streams. In Part 1 of this series, I also posed some questions the Agency can ask to help prioritize its […]

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The Marketing Agency Roadmap for Turning IP into Money – Part 1: Review Your Assets

In my last post, I discussed the places where ad and marketing agencies might find their intellectual capital, some of which might be converted into additional revenue streams, higher professional fees, or enhanced value to a potential purchaser of the Agency. Once the Agency has decided to evaluate its intellectual capital, it needs an easy

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Agency IP? What Agency IP? Five Places to Find Intellectual Property in Your Marketing Agency

Marketing and ad agency leaders are frequently surprised when I tell them that they are probably sitting on a large pile of intellectual property, a lot of it underutilized and most of it unprotected. Agencies are typically so focused on the ideation and creativity they employ for their clients that they rarely take a breather

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Trademark Protection in the New Age of Top Level Domains – 4 Things Branding Experts Need to Know

Brandholders (and the agencies that help them with branding work) are about to experience a new, “wild west”-style age of trademark clearance and protection issues with the release of new Top Level Domains (TLD’s) by ICANN, the U.S. registrar or internet domain names. In light of its plans to release hundreds of new TLD’s in

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