Insights and Articles
More than a blog, this is where you'll find our latest insights, case studies and other useful information. We aim to help you to transform your marketing and sales, and add enduring value to your business.
Stuart Poignand
Stuart Poignand loves marketing and the impact it has on business growth. His career includes GM Consumer Marketing of imaging powerhouse, Canon and Sydney MD of the global digital agency SapinetNitro. Today he helps business to unlock customer value with strategically focused inbound marketing and sales enablement.
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- July 21, 2022
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- strategic marketing
10 marketing tips to grow your business
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Stuart Poignand
It’s time to get thinking about your digital sales and marketing ecosystem to help ensure that your strategy and program are fit for today’s buyers. It should excite and inspire your target audience, ...
We’ve all dabbled in the world of social media, but how should you use social media marketing as a tool for your business? It can be challenging to know where to start. Our latest blog post walks you ...
- March 9, 2021
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- video content marketing
Why video is #1 in content marketing
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Stuart Poignand
Video is now the vital content pillar. The multi-sensory nature of video makes it highly engaging and memorable. In 2019, video became the most commonly used format in content marketing, overtaking bl...
Get your ducks in a row Today, running an inbound marketing program is all about attracting the right people to your website, converting interested visitors to leads, then nurturing each lead to the m...
- July 28, 2020
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- strategic sales
Sales process: Defining your business approach to effective sales
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Stuart Poignand
If we look at sales management historically, the conventional wisdom was that sales results are the measure of the sales function. It makes perfect sense, of course, because revenue is the top-line bu...
- July 2, 2020
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- strategic marketing
Content Marketing: Marketing like your buyers want you to
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Stuart Poignand
If you stop and think about how you buy important new things today, you’re likely to think of how you’ve changed over time.
- May 28, 2020
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- strategic marketing
How to create a marketing organisation: Choices, traps and value
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Stuart Poignand
After a long career in marketing, both within and providing business services, I’ve seen many iterations of the marketing function. Getting it right will directly correlate with business success. Gett...
- May 28, 2020
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Automation: A better experience for customers and business
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Stuart Poignand
Nirvana for marketing and sales effectiveness has always been saying the right thing to the right person at the right time. In other words, to be relevant. The continuing rise of AI-driven automation ...
- April 17, 2020
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- strategic marketing
The changing customer + strategic frameworks for a post-COVID-19 world
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Stuart Poignand
The Coronavirus pandemic and its associated health, social and economic crises will change the world. At the very least, they will shape large swathes of our way of life over the next decade. The impl...
- March 30, 2020
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- Coronavirus impact on retail
How will the Coronavirus crisis change retail in Australia?
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Stuart Poignand
In Australia, we are now just a little over two weeks into the far-reaching social, lifestyle, business and economic impacts of COVID-19. From a health standpoint, it is our society’s number one prior...