Comments on: Sorrell: Free pitching – fixture of the marketing industry http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2009/10/08/sorrell-free-pitching-fixture-of-the-marketing-industry/ PR blog by Stephen Waddington Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:13:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: philip o'neal http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2009/10/08/sorrell-free-pitching-fixture-of-the-marketing-industry/#comment-5244 philip o'neal Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:28:21 +0000 http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/?p=1444#comment-5244 More horseshit out of the horse's ass. The cost of piches are built into the hourly rates of the staff just as the costs of rent, insurance, telephones and all other such costs are bulit into the rates charged the client. The problem is that the big agencies are so bloated and expensive (Sorrell is paying himself 95mm euros over the next few years) that the cost of a pitch is astronomical. More horseshit out of the horse’s ass. The cost of piches are built into the hourly rates of the staff just as the costs of rent, insurance, telephones and all other such costs are bulit into the rates charged the client.

The problem is that the big agencies are so bloated and expensive (Sorrell is paying himself 95mm euros over the next few years) that the cost of a pitch is astronomical.

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]]> By: Mark http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2009/10/08/sorrell-free-pitching-fixture-of-the-marketing-industry/#comment-5241 Mark Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:35:17 +0000 http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/?p=1444#comment-5241 "36,000 page document"?! Does he imagine that got read? “36,000 page document”?!

Does he imagine that got read?

]]> By: Blair Enns http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2009/10/08/sorrell-free-pitching-fixture-of-the-marketing-industry/#comment-5240 Blair Enns Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:44:32 +0000 http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/?p=1444#comment-5240 Nice to see an agency man correctly identify the problem: over-supply. Nice to see an agency man correctly identify the problem: over-supply.

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