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Mark Sneider
Mark is a 30-year veteran of the consumer packaged goods, advertising, and marketing service industry. Mark started his career at DDB Needham in Chicago prior to earning his MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Business School at Northwestern where he majored in Marketing and Economics. Prior to starting RSW/US in 2005, Mark was General Manager for AcuPOLL, a global research consultancy. Sneider worked in Marketing for S.C. Johnson and KAO Brands. Sneider has been invited to speak at numerous Agency events and network conferences domestically and internationally including the 4A’s, Magnet, NAMA, TAAN, and MCAN. Sneider has been featured in prominent industry publications including Adweek, Media Post, e-Marketer, and Forbes. When not working (which often seems like not often), Mark likes to run miles, go to church, and just chill with a hard copy issue of Fast Company.
Now is the time for your agency to make a difference in your world. In a recent Adweek article, the author discusses the things brands need to be thinking about and doing now, given the situation we are in. It...
Welcome to the second episode of RSW/AgencySearch’s “A Look Under the Agency Hood,” a video series in which we bring perspective unmatched in the industry to help YOU find better marketing agency partners. In this episode, founder/principal Mark Sneider discusses...
You don’t need us to tell you that in-house agencies are on the rise. As a marketer, you’ve either seen this trend all around your industry, or you’ve become part of it. Whatever your vantage point, it won’t surprise you...
Clear historical trends indicate a movement to consolidate the number of agencies a marketer uses (on a regular basis), which is very different than it has been in the past. Pre-2017, marketers were on more of a path of expansion...
Welcome to the inaugural episode of RSW/AgencySearch’s “A Look Under the Agency Hood,” a video series in which we bring perspective unmatched in the industry to help YOU find better marketing agency partners. In this episode, founder/principal Mark Sneider recounts...
If you’ve been in the marketing world for more than a few years, as I’m sure most of you have, you know that our world of advertising is almost entirely cyclical. This year’s trends are wholly different than last year’s,...
Just finished up a search for a client in the entertainment/hospitality space. It always amazes me that when you put the same ask in front of 3-4 agencies, you get very different approaches to how they address the challenge document...
The New Year is upon us, and with the holiday, of course, comes the resolutions that many of you have made (and hopefully none of you have broken yet!). Whether it’s shedding a few pounds, reading a few more books,...
Too often, marketers or traditional search consultants, don’t take the time to ask agencies the tough questions upfront in a search. There’s a tendency to focus on the functional elements associated with an agency versus diving into the degree to...
You may have heard some buzz recently about “the disappearing CMO”. In case you haven’t, the sentiment is that the term “marketing” is outdated as a catch-all term. In addition, the responsibilities that once fell to the CMO are now...