02/12/2025

Make your agency the obvious choice with Roland Gurney

Stop blending in. Start standing out.

Most agencies struggle not because of capability, but because their positioning is fuzzy and their messaging is generic. If your agency sounds just like everyone else’s, prospects will have no reason to pick you.

In this masterclass, agency positioning expert Roland Gurney will show you how to cut through the noise, make the tough decisions that define your niche, and build messaging that gets you chosen. Plain-speaking, practical, and immediately actionable, this session will give you the clarity and confidence to sharpen your story and win more of the right work.

You will learn:
- A simple system for nailing your positioning
- Ways to make big strategic decisions
- A structure for presenting your positioning

Agenda
1. Why most agency problems stem from poor positioning
2. The Treacle positioning triangle (WHO, WHAT, HOW)
3. Using AI to test and validate ideas
4. Presenting your positioning (Landing page copy structure)
5. Messaging tips and techniques to tell and sell your new positioning

Access the slides here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yoI9iLE4jCzUFYRD31EC7ODzQcg8VZuE/view?usp=sharing


Masterclass host:
Roland Gurney is a specialist in helping agencies stand out, sharpen up and sell their unique expertise. Through Treacle, he works with creative, digital and marketing agencies to strip away the fluff, uncover what truly makes them different and turn it into positioning and messaging that wins clients.

Roland’s approach is plain-speaking, commercially minded and unafraid to challenge beige thinking. He believes positioning isn’t about clever slogans or superficial claims. It’s about making big and often difficult business decisions about WHO to work with, WHAT to offer them, and HOW to uniquely deliver success.

Having helped hundreds of agencies worldwide nail their new positioning and messaging, Roland has seen all the common mistakes that hamper sales and make marketing a hassle. So when shops are tired of sounding like everyone else, they come to Treacle to sharpen their edge.

https://www.treacle.agency/

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