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...
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...
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...
3/1/2022 9:53:59 AM Your Media Agency Called - They Asked "If You're Still Interested in 90's Marketing" By Stephen Sumner There's an ongoing debate, some would say panic in 'ad land' which includes the agency ecosystem, who its seems, are keen to perpetuate...
10/13/2021 10:56:54 AM The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads. By Stephen Sumner I'm constantly amazed at people who are talented marketeers, who when they arrive at work forget to think about how they behave on social...
5/17/2021 1:26:14 PM The Secret That Marketing Can't Share with the CEO & CFO. By Stephen Sumner Over the years I've worked with some really great CEO's and CFO's, many of them were responsible for steering major international...
5/17/2021 1:01:54 PM Retailers Whose Content is Informational and in the Form of Stories Are Really Succeeding. By Stephen Sumner If you work in marketing you convince yourself that everyone is looking at your brand and company, yet the reality couldn't be further...
5/10/2021 9:48:12 AM If Ad Tech Is the Disease Can Storytelling Be the Cure? By Stephen Sumner The promise of owning content to deliver ads fueled by mobile subscriber data was a powerful lure driving Verizon to acquire two of the...
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...
1/21/2021 8:45:49 AM CMOs: Adapt Your Social Media Strategy for a Post-Pandemic World By Tim Hughes This Harvard Business Review article makes some interesting forecasts about the use of social media by business. "The Special Covid-19...
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...