CORPORATE CONFUSING
• Discovery calls to discover your credit limit
• SWOT analysis: Somehow We Owe Them
• Turning your one-page brief into a ninety-slide obstacle
• Strategic alignment with our payment schedule
• Brainstorming things you already suggested
• A roadmap with no irritating arrival date
• Weekly meetings about reducing meetings
• Action items assigned exclusively to you
You bring the problem. We give it a more expensive name.
PARTNERSHIP PRETENDING
• Introductions to people we follow on LinkedIn
• Name-dropping with impressive pronunciation
• Platinum-tier access to our outbox
• Custom proposals with your logo pasted over the last one
• “Advanced discussions” with an unanswered email
• Exclusive opportunities available to absolutely anyone
• Partnership activation, pending an actual partner
• Return on imagination reporting
Our pipeline is full. Mostly of “just circling back.”
TALENT MISREPRESENTATION
• Athlete representation from the comfort of the sidelines
• Artist development into a recurring payment
• Contract negotiations against your best judgment
• Endorsement opportunities from brands we have heard of
• VIP access to the regular entrance
• Public relations, private explanations
• Career management with several convenient exits
We see your potential. More specifically, your earning potential.
MEDIA MAYBES
• Digital exposure measured in tabs we left open
• Broadcast opportunities during everyone’s bathroom break
• Naming rights to the problem we created
• Premium placement in our next proposal
• Targeted campaigns aimed directly at Accounts Payable
• Influencer outreach to our cousin with a ring light
• Impressions that are mostly our first impression
Reach millions.*
*Of pixels. On our presentation screen.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
• Logos that get bigger every time you ask why
• Pitch decks with cinematic slide transitions
• Stock photography of people appearing to collaborate
• Proposals bound so beautifully you forget to read them
• Sell sheets, buy excuses
• Website copy with “synergy” in all the right places
• Brand guidelines we will immediately disregard
• Unlimited revisions to the estimated completion date
If the strategy falls apart, at least the PDF looks expensive.