Are you the ideal Mears Ash client?

At Mears Ash, we know we get the best results when we have a great relationship with our clients.

Take this quick and easy 10-question, multiple choice Relationship Test to find out if you’d be an ideal client for Mears Ash. Have a laugh, have some fun and see how you shape up!

Mostly As: Congratulations! This is nothing less than a meeting of minds. You’re obviously an ideal client for Mears Ash and we’re the agency for you – call us now on 020 7736 6408, email us or use our contact form.

Mostly Bs: We’ve come across your type before! With the right training, we’re certain you could soon become a perfectly acceptable Mears Ash client! Take the plunge by calling us today on 020 7736 6408, email us or use our contact form.

Mostly Cs: We know what brought you here – your previous agency has obviously given you the old heave-ho. Not to worry, we’re plucky and adventurous enough take up the challenge of knocking you into shape. It’s now or never – 020 7736 6408, email us or use our contact form.

	1. When you provide a logo, do you: A. Send an Illustrator vector file? B. Email a low-res version dragged off your website? C. Tell the agency you can’t find it and ask them to redraw it?
	2. When briefing an agency, do you: A. Let the agency choose the most suitable colours? B. Give the agency the Pantone references for your corporate colours? C. Forget to tell the agency that the Chairman detests purple as it was his ex-wife’s favourite colour?
	3. If you supply copy to a designer, do you: A. Wait patiently until it has been fully signed off then send it to them? B. Let the designer set it and then run it by compliance? C. Have the designer typeset it perfectly before you’ve even read through it?
	4. When discussing pictures with the agency, do you: A. Give the agency an enormous budget and tell them to go and shoot an award-winner? B. Give them access to your slightly dull, in-house picture library? C. Ask the agency to provide 20 pictures of realistic-looking 70 year old British couples holding hands on a beach for free?
	5. With regards to timing, do you: A. Give the agency two weeks to provide visuals? B. Book short-term space and then ask the agency very nicely to turn the ad around in a day? C. Tell the agency that the project is “screamingly urgent” and then sit on the visuals for weeks?

	6. With costings, do you: A. Appreciate the creative process and find the extra money for long brainstorms in the pub? B. Appreciate that the solution provided by the agency is bang on budget? C. See the visuals and then confess that the MD has halved the budget?
	7. When you’ve asked for a creative solution and see the visuals, do you: A. Gaze in awe at the creative genius of the agency and sign it off immediately? B. Go for the middle-of-the-road solution as it is just right for the corporate image? C. Insist that the agency uses Times New Roman and doubles the size of the logo?
	8. When you see white space on a visual, do you: A. Spontaneously break into applause and shout “Yes!”? B. Appreciate that it’s easier on the eye for the reader? C. Ask for it all to be filled in with another 500 words?
	9. When you get the invoice, do you: A. Pay it immediately? B. Pay within 30 days? C. Only pay up when you receive a duplicate invoice as apparently the dog ate the original?
	10. Finally, when a project is finished, do you: A. Take the agency out for a slap-up lunch at a swanky eatery? B. Send an email saying “Thanks, love your style, great job!”? C. Do precisely nothing.

Are you the ideal Mears Ash client?

1. When you provide a logo, do you:

2. When briefing an agency, do you:

3. If you supply copy to a designer, do you:

4. When discussing pictures with the agency, do you:

5. With regards to timing, do you:

6. With costings, do you:

7. When you’ve asked for a creative solution and see the visuals, do you:

8. When you see white space on a visual, do you:

9. When you get the invoice, do you:

10. Finally, when a project is finished, do you:

Mears Ash, 28 Ashington Road, London SW6 3QJ. Tel: 020 7736 6408. Email: ideas@mearsash.com