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Topic: strategic marketing

SEO: Ten simple steps to get found online with Google search

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...

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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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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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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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