• A Step Ahead

    01/07/07, Advertising Age reports Timberland Co. to be reviewing its $10m global advertising account. Pearlfinders detailed this review exclusively to subscribers 12/04/07.

    10/18/07, The Wall Street Journal reports Coca-Cola to be innovating packaging and POS equipment. Pearlfinders reported this exclusively to subscribers a month earlier on 09/21/07.

  • Pearlfinders US

    We carefully monitor every story in the financial and marketing trade press, then expertly interview the decision-makers involved to identify new business opportunities.

How we do it

Testimonial

"We used to subscribe to The List but have found Pearlfinders’ contact data much more accurate - so much so that we don’t now need another data subscription."

Our team spends many hours every day carefully filtering the press, identifying the relevant decision-makers, and then contacting them to ask the questions you need answered to inform your activity in response.
Our impartial stance and our experience and technique, means we obtain unrivalled access to US brand decision-makers (4000+ interviews a year). Our knowledge of best practice with proactive new business means we guide you in the right direction to exploit each opportunity.
Look at other products in this market and you’ll see ‘interviews’ with company spokespersons passed off as ‘new business intelligence’. However, as any experienced business developer will tell you, it’s only access to real decision-makers and knowing what to ask them and how that drives effective new business prospecting.

In conversation with real decision-makers we find out: -

  • Who else is involved with the decision-making process and for which brands/divisions?
  • What pressures or challenges prompt them to change or add to agency arrangements?
  • What kind of budget is available for marketing services and how will this evolve?
  • What decision-makers look for personally in an agency - including tone of approach, case studies, reputation in the marketplace, style of collateral/DM, awards etc.?
  • Whether the company is receptive to hearing from smaller agencies, traditionalists, innovators, specialists, generalists or those outside the geographical region?
  • What are the company’s strategic priorities – i.e. to increase brand awareness in a particular demographic, launching new products, expansion into a new territory, acquire, retain, up-sell, cross-sell etc.? 

And when a new decision-maker comes on board: -

  • If the person's appointment/promotion will have any immediate or long-term effect on current agency arrangements?
  • Their business objectives ahead – what their particular focus will be and what channels are likely to be most relevant?
  • The best way for agencies to get in touch

In short, all the information you need to pick up the phone or write a letter or email – and proactively begin winning the business.