Limited time and resources or perhaps you are just seeking further confidence in your selection?
Whatever your search or marketing broking service needs are relatively straight forward or complex we are here to assist and delighted to help you in finding your best fit solution partner.
Drawing on a curated register of over 700 ‘best in class ‘ providers and experts across 22 specialism disciplines and a rigorous and disciplined methodology to match-making we are extremely well placed to simplify the search process for you and in doing so also reduce the risks that are typically associated with poor selection practices whilst securing valued service terms and performance outcomes .
Our provider searches and marketing broking services start from the premise that business owners and marketers need to partner with the best and on the best-valued terms and that engaging average is now the enemy and will no longer get you noticed.
Complete and submit a search or broking brief as denoted below and we will get back to your shortly regarding how we can best assist you.
Through investing time and energy into the search or tender process upfront and applying a rigorous and detailed approach to briefing and qualifying best fit options we help businesses avoid the delays, cost blowouts and poor performance outcomes that are typically associated with poor search and selection practices.
As your marketing broker, we provide you with the expertise and insight to select your ‘best fit ‘ solutions and the independence and objective guidance you need to identify the wheat from the chaff and negotiate great service outcomes.
Finding a marketing provider is easy for most businesses, the hard part is in finding your ‘Best Fit’ options from across increasingly dynamic and diverse solutions and consumer landscape.
At Marketing Search we start from the premise that most business owners and marketers want to partner with the providers that are best equipped to exceed their needs and execute cost-effectively.
The fragmented media landscape today demands businesses require expertise in multiple channels. This adds to complexity and challenges in ensuring consistency in brand communications.
Dealing with multiple expert providers can be hard, however, whilst the full service integrated model approach, in theory, makes good sense the reality in practice is that it is only as good as an agency’s ability to provide the scale, breadth of resources required to provide above-average performance outcomes. It also requires considerable capital investment to build and maintain.
At Marketing Search our supplier model is premised on making sure, we not only provide individual channel and discipline expertise but when warranted can also deliver an integrated solutions approach that does not compromise on the depth of specialism, consistency in communications and process efficiencies needed.
We facilitate this through a curated and collective network of best in class marketing specialists from across multiple disciplines whom we manage through our platform engage individually and collectively as and when required to achieve the best fit solution for our clients.
Through investing time and energy into the search process upfront and applying a rigorous and detailed approach to qualifying best fit options businesses can avoid the delays, cost blowouts and poor performance outcomes that are typically associated with poor search and selection practices.
Relying on referrals from well-intended peers or friends or sticking with the same old agency you’ve always dealt with has limitations and potential risks. Search engines likewise are limiting and provide little to no comfort regarding the quality or compatibility of the agencies listed.
For RFPs, Marketing Search’s search brokers will help you get the right fit agencies engaged on your next RFP or simply promote an open RFP on your behalf to relevant agencies or design firms.
We can also asist you in improving your brief and the RFI/RFP process to increase your response rate and the quality of engagement you get with our experts.
Firstly we request you submit an introductory high-level project brief online which upon receipt is followed up with a call from one of our search brokers to further understand and validate your marketing broking search needs.
Following an initial briefing with you, we confirm whether or not the nature and scope of assignment warrants any additional service costs to you as a member client and then upon agreement proceed to set selection criteria for a preliminary long-list of six potential ‘Best Fit’ providers.
The ‘Best Fit’ selection process we apply encompasses us undertaking a rigorous evaluation of each potential provider and rating them against our own proprietary 20 point check selection criteria.
Following the confidential distribution of the initial project brief to our long list providers we then follow through and discuss with their respective account project managers their preliminary response and levels of interest with the objective of further qualifying down to a shortlist of 3 providers, who are then requested to submit their preliminary proposal and costings.
The shortlisted proposals are then forwarded to the requesting client contact and further to discussion with ourselves a determination is made by the client as to any further steps they wish to take before final selection and appointment for the provider to proceed.
Before settling on any final selection we always recommend a personal visit to at least two of the shortlisted provider offices, to enable you to test and further validate in person their cultural and communication fit with your business team.
Why use Marketing Search’s broking service
It pays to have a marketing broker on your side.
Our Marketing Search Broker works for you, not the marketing providers and its free for registered premium members. We take the time to understand your current business and associated growth challenges and through the joint formulation of a project brief ( marketing slip ) broke your requirements and needs to the broader solutions market.
Finding the right partner and securing performance and value is what Marketing Search’s brokers specialise in. So you can get on with doing what really matters.
Your Marketing Search broker can help you navigate the marketing services market to help you find your ‘best ‘fit’ solution. Marketing Search brokers have access to an ever-growing register of ‘best in class’ specialist providers across 22 disciplines.
The Marketing Search broker difference
Save time
Our brokers take the time to understand your business growth challenges and tailor a solution to match – taking the hard work out of getting the right partner. We do the research, arrange it all and manage the coordination and administration for requests for proposals and costings quotes. So you can focus on what’s important.
Ensure solution service proposals are market competitive
Through our insights and exposure to the broader services marketplace, we can ensure provider proposals and services are in accord with good market practice and objectively evaluated to ensure they are competitive and value for money.
Reduce selection and project risks
Through our rigorous and disciplined approach to search and selection, we can assure our members on finding their ‘best fit’ solutions and delivering on the quality, compatibility, and above-average performance outcomes and returns they seek.
Basic broking services – for registered business members are generally provided freely , however only undertaken after completion and submission of an initial brief .
Request for more involved and complex marketing broking services such as preparation of briefs, requests for proposals, or attendance in final shortlisting evaluations may incur additional fees. Any additional fee to be charged would be confirmed at the time of inquiry.
All member requests for broking searches require submission of an initial search brief as displayed in the lower section of this page.
Failing to identify the right partner of course could very well cost you a lot more, so consider any fee a form of risk minimisation insurance.
Naturally, it is dependent upon the breath of assignment and timeliness of supporting information being made available by clients.
Basic provider search requests are generally completed within 5 to 10 working days from instruction with more involved and detailed searches between 10 to 30 working days as a guide.