4/6/2023 10:03:56 AM If You Want Tech For Free Go Ask Gen Z. By Stephen Sumner Mobile phone use has overtaken desktop in relation to everyday activities, and not surprisingly using the phone to actually make a call...
3/28/2023 9:48:00 AM Your Team Are Not Marketing - They're Plate Spinning! By Stephen Sumner "Things ain't what they used to be" - well not in marketing anyway! With the plethora of platforms, tools, and measurements at our...
3/28/2023 9:26:11 AM Can 'Social Selling' Combined With Chat GPT Be The Game Changer? By Stephen Sumner It's no secret that Google's dominance in paid search has been under threat as the 'intrusive' marketeer moves ad spend into 'Social...
3/21/2023 9:58:33 AM A Bot Goes Into A Bar And Buys A Drink - With Your Money!! By Stephen Sumner I don't know about you but today we seem to be constantly bombarded with intrusive ads from everywhere, my personal bug bear is the...
3/7/2023 3:42:21 PM They Say That Data Is The New Oil - It Is for Fraudsters. By Stephen Sumner No wonder it's become common to call data the "new oil". The analogy isn't perfect. Data can be used many times, oil only once. Data...
2/1/2023 2:01:07 PM SEO Is Dying - Long Live AI Chat & Content. By Stephen Sumner Chances are you've already invested quite a lot of time, resource, and no doubt hard cash into 'optimising' your website for all the...
1/19/2023 11:42:03 AM The Hard Truth About 'Paid Media' - Pssst, Don't Tell The CEO & CFO. By Stephen Sumner There is a view around paid media that its still the most effective way to deliver 'reach'. Some of which I might subscribe to if I...
1/9/2023 11:30:21 AM Questions from the client base #12: “I’m not a creative person, will this be a problem for me in Social Selling...?” By Digital Leadership Associates “I’m not a creative person, will this be a problem for me in Social Selling...?” One of the most rewarding aspects of working with CRUX...
10/31/2022 12:35:45 PM Retail Isn't Innovating Because Marketing Has Become The Company Bullhorn. By Stephen Sumner The reason to hire a CMO is usually because you’ve got a big strategic problem to solve, you need to drive growth and become more...
7/1/2022 9:51:06 AM If Retailers Are Still Wasting Advertising Budgets - They Need To Do This? By Stephen Sumner When, why, and how did we become so complacent with wasting money? Pre-Covid keywords and low quality creative on intrusive ad tech...
6/16/2022 10:40:15 AM As the saying goes if it's 'Free' You're the Product By Stephen Sumner We like content,love content, Game of Thrones (never seen it BTW), Peaky Blinders (superb), all kinds of sport Cup (mens and womens) and...
6/9/2022 6:56:20 AM Social Media Agencies Can’t Speak For Your Brand - Only You Can! By Stephen Sumner Do you remember the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty'? Well there been something similar going on in agency land for the past decade or so...
6/1/2022 9:03:39 AM If Communication Is King - Is Community Queen? By Stephen Sumner I was reading an article recently that said marketeers were struggling to work out how to 'communicate' with customers as the data points...
3/21/2022 1:46:06 PM Retail Pays More For Not Understanding How To Use 'Social Networks' By Stephen Sumner Customer acquisition is something every business continues to do, it doesn’t matter if your in B2B/B2C or D2C. What varies of course is...
3/8/2022 10:16:01 AM How And Why Should Big Retail Do Agile Marketing? By Stephen Sumner Tech giants have come under increased pressure to clean up their platforms in recent months amid concerns about harmful material, fake...
3/1/2022 10:30:03 AM Your CMO has Numbers To Hit - That's Why It's Easier Doing What They Have Always Done. By Stephen Sumner I don't know about you but I use my phone constantly, I am aware of how much I use it because each week it lets me know what my usage has...