5/3/2021 11:05:38 AM How Brands Are Creating Commercial Relevance With eGamers & Social Media? By Stephen Sumner For this blog I've picked up on a couple of trending stories. My focus is to stimulate the industry to continue to recognise that you...
4/26/2021 10:59:10 AM The Power of In-Depth Relationship Brand Planning & Social Networks. By Stephen Sumner I was talking to a few people in retail the other day about how eCommerce has forever changed the retail landscape and the way people...
4/20/2021 10:13:22 AM How The Best Companies Convince Consumers to Believe in Their Company Over Any Competitor. By Stephen Sumner The retail industry is most impacted by dynamic changes in consumer demand as today’s consumers want immediate, easy, 24/7 shopping...
4/20/2021 12:00:00 AM Why The Role of The CMO & Marketing is NOT What You Think?. By Stephen Sumner Prior to this crisis the role of the CMO was already seen as a relatively short term tenure, mainly because it was/is profoundly...
4/6/2021 9:25:50 AM What Can We Learn From 'Tinder' About Branding? By Stephen Sumner Let's imagine you're sat in a bar, but this isn't just any bar, this bar is where you go to 'listen' to what people are saying about...
3/18/2021 10:55:20 AM The People We Remember Most Are the Best Storytellers - Here's Why. By Stephen Sumner We have an inbuilt ability to be able to recall stories more than we do with the modern day disease called 'intrusive push advertising'....
3/18/2021 10:29:31 AM Buying Tiger Woods Golf Clubs Won't Transform my Game - So Why Do You Think It will Change M&S? By Stephen Sumner One of the reasons the physical 'Shopping Mall' was seen as a great place to be alongside the retail High Street is because it leveraged...
3/8/2021 10:30:20 AM Phygital Magic is What's Needed to Immerse Today's Consumers By Stephen Sumner I write this blog as most of the world anticipates their version of release from lockdown. Retail in all its forms and sectors in...
7/19/2020 11:02:41 AM How to be an Effective Sales Leader During the Coronavirus Crisis By Tim Hughes I've just got off a Zoom call. Nothing strange about that, there are 300 million zoom calls a day amd 200 million Microsoft Teams calls...
7/7/2020 8:32:55 AM Investing in Branding - What Does Research Say You Need to Do? By Tim Hughes If you haven't seen it before this research is the Edelman Trust Barometer and it comes out every year, so you have a last year, this...
6/22/2020 8:33:30 AM In a Very Crowded Social Space "Who Can You Trust? By Stephen Sumner Today we can access and consume content anywhere, anytime, and on any device. We consume more content today than at anytime in history,...
6/17/2020 11:11:22 AM What Makes a Good Marketing Manager? By Tim Hughes We all know that the world and marketing has changed. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently said "As COVID-19 impacts every aspect of our...
6/14/2020 10:27:37 AM Survive or Thrive? CEOs Must Change How They Sell and Market in a Covid19 World By Tim Hughes "As COVID-19 impacts every aspect of our work and life, we've seen two years' worth of digital transformation in two months," said...
6/13/2020 10:46:58 AM How to Align B2B Buyer & Seller Journeys to Maximize Revenue By Tim Hughes Things seem to be speeding up. Covid19 has been the catalyst to so many things. There are now 300 million daily participants on Zoom. ...
6/12/2020 10:24:32 AM Contemplating Laying Off Your CMO? Ask Yourself These Questions First By Tim Hughes Up until the start of Covid19, we often had conversations with companies, which went along the lines of:- 1. Advertising does not work...
6/9/2020 9:54:05 AM Why a Lack of 'Authentic' Brand Personality Is Losing You Business & Employees. By Stephen Sumner For as long as I've been in business I've been fascinated with understanding why we choose one brand over another. Today It's got to be...