3/1/2021 12:25:49 PM Why Your 'Social Selling' Strategy Doesn't Work. By Stephen Sumner Social selling despite what you think, and what you're 'one day masterclass' LinkedIn guru told you isn't actually about 'selling' - it...
2/18/2021 9:38:16 AM What You Should Know When Mapping Your 2021 Marketing Strategy By Tim Hughes I spotted this article the other day, this is the paragraph that interested me. "A recent B2B buyer survey showed that most senior...
2/1/2021 12:00:00 AM The State of the Nation on Social in 2021 By Tim Hughes In this blog, I'm going to take the latest social media report by We Are Social and Hootsuite, complied by Simon Kemp and break it down...
1/23/2021 1:13:33 PM Any CMO who wants to understand how to really harness martech should read this blog By Tim Hughes In a recent blog Adam Gray talked about Martech, for those about to invest in martech, or if you have been a Martech user for a little...
1/20/2021 11:17:17 AM Time Spent With Ad-Supported Media Hits All-Time Low, Social Media Usage is Up By Tim Hughes Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad, and goes something like: “Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable. It's time to...
1/16/2021 10:52:09 AM Three Activities to Prioritize for Maximum Marketing ROI in 2021 By Tim Hughes Love the opening paragraph of this article "Like everyone else, B2B marketers experienced a very different 2020 than they had originally...
12/27/2020 2:24:34 PM What Digital Marketing Execs Want to Improve in the Year Ahead By Tim Hughes This is a review of the year 2020, using Hubspot data, this is anonymised data from all of their clients worldwide. You can watch the 55...
11/26/2020 9:38:18 AM Three Opportunities B2B Marketers Must Seize During 2021 Planning By Tim Hughes Last night my partner and I went for a walk in west London where we live. It gets dark at this time of the year, 16:00 in the afternoon. ...
10/23/2020 3:13:01 PM It's Time for Chief Market Officers to Play Offense By Tim Hughes We meet many CMOs and the number one thing they say to us is that "marketing isn't working anymore". When I tell this to some CMOs they...
10/9/2020 12:00:00 AM COVID Triggered A Decade Of Digitisation In Six Months, Says McKinsey By Tim Hughes For organisations there is now a rush to digital. I'm not talking about systems change, I'm talking about, looking at the business "as...
9/25/2020 11:00:26 AM ‘Pipeline Inertia’: The Silent Killer of B2B Brands By Tim Hughes I've written before about how B2B (Business to Business) sales and marketing is like the cartoon character Wile E. Coyote. You remember...
9/23/2020 9:34:37 AM Less Is More: Dealing With 2020's Marketing Budget Challenges By Tim Hughes Spoiler alert! If you don't want to know what the Gartner Spend summary says and you want to read it for yourself, don't read on. For...
8/25/2020 5:42:54 AM The Acute Moment Has Passed, Time To Manage The Chronic Disruption Of COVID-19 By Tim Hughes As we come out of lockdown and tentatively move towards living with Covid19. I won't say normality, as I don't think we will ever go back...
8/4/2020 12:26:25 PM Research - Buyers No Longer Look at Adverts But Do Look at Content By Tim Hughes Here is some interesting research from a New York PR Firm, Macias. The online survey was conducted July 15-16th, and involved more than...
6/29/2020 1:49:22 PM Why Going Cold Turkey with Your Paid Media Agency is Now Your Only Option. By Stephen Sumner So your in the publishing and content creation business and all your revenue eggs pre-Covid were sat in one basket which was...
6/29/2020 12:57:37 PM Why Your Media Agencies Cookies Are No More? By Stephen Sumner According to a recent survey from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, nearly a quarter of media buyers, planners and brands will not...