July 25, 2016
Last week, IHAF’s Associate Director, Emily Foster, and Business Development Manager, Kate O’Callaghan, facilitated a webinar on “Optimizing Your Membership.” This 40-minute session gave members and non-members a closer look at all of the programming and benefits IHAF has to offer.
IHAF members …
July 11, 2016
“The best way to stand out is by blending in.” That’s just one of many quotables imparted by this year’s IHAF Huddle facilitator, ChRiS Gomersall, as our regional discussion group series came to a close last month. In fact, ChRiS had the hundred or so people who attended our Huddles in Boston, …
July 01, 2016
By now, most in-house agencies have looked for ways to leverage workflow and DAM systems to help them run more efficiently. Many are even on their second- or third-generation solutions. At the same time, others could benefit from taking a step back and thinking more-broadly about how these tools …
June 13, 2016
Tomorrow marks the first of our Huddle regional discussion groups—facilitated by leading expert and former Instagram and Facebook executive ChRiS Gomersall, CEO of ATOMIZED.
ChRiS is a problem solver. In fact, shortly into his tenure at Facebook, he spotted a problem his clients were having …
June 06, 2016
This month marks the start of our annual Huddle discussion group series—one of IHAF’s most popular events. These half-day sessions are ideal for in-house agency leaders and individual contributors alike. This year’s Huddle focuses on the rise of Omni-Channel Marketing and the challenge of keeping …
May 23, 2016
Over the years, we have seen the inevitable—rising fluctuations in ad spending across online and offline media. And just when we seem to have digital figured out, we are confronted by more programmatic, bots, non-viewability, and fraud reporting.
Well, this is not a silver bullet blog post on …
April 25, 2016
To say that attending last week’s IHAF Leadership Summit was exactly what I needed is an understatement. You see, over the last three years, my in-house agency has reached our max ability to do projects quickly in large quantities. Projects that have the potential to be great, but rarely are. And …
April 18, 2016
Regular interaction with clients is a reality for most creative professionals. (They pay our bills, after all!) Yet, according to a recent industry poll, client engagement is a challenge for nearly three-quarters of creative teams. So how can you improve your client relationships? Here are three …
December 28, 2015
“If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.” –Steve Pavlina, personal-development blogger, book author, and motivational speaker
Falling in love with hard work isn’t hard to do at IHAF—and boy, have we accomplished much in the …
October 19, 2015
We have all undoubtedly experienced a mixed bag of client/agency relationships over the years—from the rich, rewarding experiences we fondly remember to those indifferent, demotivating relationships. There may even be one or two we would rather forget. It’s the glue that bonds us to our clients and …