It seems like there are a lot of stories out these days -- about clients dumping agencies without warning, and agencies dumping clients for bigger clients without warning. It indicates to me that any notions of professional manners, respect, etc. have been willingly jettisoned from the ad biz. Oh, make all the jokes you want about ethics in our business. But when I started in this business 24 years ago, things like this didn't happen. Or if they did, people were shocked that anyone could do such a thing. Have we lost any shred of the concept of respectful relationships in this business? And does anyone else give a spit?
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When Was It That Professional Manners Died?
Posted by Jim Nichols on July 7th, 2010 at 3:10 am
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Great point Jim. Had a front row seat to one of these this week. Very disappointing.
Jim, You are on a writing roll. Well said!
I absolutely agree whit this article. In fact, there are a lot of BPO companies in the Philippines lost their clients.