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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10 marketing tips to grow your business

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, ...

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Social Media Marketing

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 ...

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Why video is #1 in content marketing

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...

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Max your Google Ads

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...

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Sales process: Defining your business approach to effective sales

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...

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Content Marketing: Marketing like your buyers want you to

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.

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How to create a marketing organisation: Choices, traps and value

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...

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Automation: A better experience for customers and business

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 ...

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The changing customer + strategic frameworks for a post-COVID-19 world

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...

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How will the Coronavirus crisis change retail in Australia?

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...

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Working from home can be great. Here’s how we do it.

Poignand Consulting is a marketing consultancy with an entirely remote workforce. We started it that way as many start-ups do. We’ve stayed that way because it’s a great way for us all to work and I g...

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Childcare & Early Learning: New age marketing and enrolments

This article provides childcare and early learning centre operators insights into the most effective way to run marketing and enrolments.

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Is your marketing strategy effective?

What makes a super-compelling marketing strategy for small to medium businesses - and how do you kick-start yours?

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Do you have a compelling brand strategy?

Your brand is more than a name and a logo; it will represent you and what your business will become. A good brand strategy is important in positioning your business, not only for your clients, but als...

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How to increase sales conversion with the inbound sales approach

What is inbound sales? At its most simple, inbound sales is a method of selling that puts the customer and their needs first. It is a form of consultative sales that leverages interest and demand buil...

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Lessons learned: marketing for the future

I was recently asked a great question by a client - a clever and thoughtful young marketer on the rise; "What are the most important things you've learned?" It was a tough one to answer on the spot, p...

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Beware: Marketing mistakes to avoid

You know the story. You’ve invested a lot of time and money in building a website, establishing a social media presence and building an email database and after all that, the only result you can see i...

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Is your marketing strategically focused on your customer?

What is inbound marketing? Put simply, inbound is an approach to marketing that makes it easy for the right customer to find your business and develop the customer’s readiness to buy. It is designed t...

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Is your business helping, or selling?

Helping not selling This could be the world’s shortest blog post. You see, the headline says it all. The single most important point when producing content to generate leads is to help, not sell. This...

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