You must treat the relationship with your new agency as a partnership. It is together, working as true partners focused on the same big goals that you will win both now and in the future.

How you kickoff the relationship with your social media agency from day one, all the way to final and detailed execution of strategies and tactics are critical to success.

Have you considered hiring a social media agency but not sure where to start? Or maybe you have already hired a social media marketing agency, yet you are not seeing the return on investment you had anticipated?

If you have struggled with seeing measurable results in hiring an agency there are many factors that could be contributing to the lack of results including:

• You hired the wrong agency
• You are not committed to the agency or the process
• You do not trust the agency and it is impacting the relationship with the agency as well as the outcomes
• You don’t have well defined and documented business goals and objectives for which to align social media
• You don’t have the internal infrastructure to support social media or the agency
• You have not been 100% honest with the agency on your internal and /or external challenges
• You have unrealistic expectations given the budget allocated to social media and the agency
• You have slowed down the process due to holding back information, or not giving your agency access to all data and channels requested
• You are forcing your agency to work in a silo of Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn vs letting them help you integrate social media into the DNA of your business
• Although you hired the agency as the “expert” to help you achieve success, you are now leading the project and calling the shots on a daily basis (even though you lack experience in the area for which you hired the agency for)

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