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Topic: strategic marketing
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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SEM: How to get the best value from Google Ads
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Imogen Arnold
Search Engine Marketing, otherwise known as SEM, is the process of advertising your business under carefully selected search terms to help attract the right people to your website. SEM works hand in h...
- July 2, 2020
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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.
- June 26, 2020
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SEO: Ten simple steps to get found online with Google search
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Imogen Arnold
SEO stands for 'search engine optimisation'. It's a process of optimising your website content to help Google deliver more of the right people to your site. So it's essential to consider your SEO stra...
- May 28, 2020
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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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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...
- February 20, 2020
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Is your marketing strategy effective?
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Stuart Poignand
What makes a super-compelling marketing strategy for small to medium businesses - and how do you kick-start yours?
- February 20, 2020
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Do you have a compelling brand strategy?
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Stuart Poignand
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...
- February 20, 2020
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Lessons learned: marketing for the future
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Stuart Poignand
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...
- February 20, 2020
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Beware: Marketing mistakes to avoid
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Stuart Poignand
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...
- February 20, 2020
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Is your marketing strategically focused on your customer?
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Stuart Poignand
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...
- January 6, 2020
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Is your business helping, or selling?
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Stuart Poignand
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...