5/30/2023 11:52:39 AM Help, I Can't Advertise My 'Adult' Toys! By Stephen Sumner The 'adult' product industry say they're struggling to be able to 'market' their products on social media because of the naughty word...
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...
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...
12/21/2022 11:49:18 AM Want To Know The Retail Gossip This Week? - It's All On Social Media. By Stephen Sumner In the not too distant past if a rumour started about a retail company it probably took an industry magazine or a national newspaper to...
11/28/2022 4:12:16 PM Lessons learned from training and coaching clients in Social Selling & Influence over the last 3 years… By Digital Leadership Associates I started out professional life in Electrical engineering. I worked in Offshore Drilling for 16 years and then moved into Health, Safety...
11/9/2022 1:36:21 PM How Retailers Can Avoid Being The Festive Grinch. By Stephen Sumner We all know that physical retail as was is no more, because the world around it and the enforced habits of consumers due to Covid and...
11/7/2022 10:17:30 AM Questions from the client base #10: “Does all this B2B digital/social stuff have a shelf life...?” By Digital Leadership Associates I was on a call with a management team recently. We ran through what being a Social organisation means, the reason it's important, how it...
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...