5/17/2021 11:39:13 AM Why Retail Can't Afford To Stay Front of Mind Now and Then. By Stephen Sumner As we look to try and kick start what was an extremely difficult sector pre Covid I genuinely believe that retail has now got the chance...
5/3/2021 11:30:55 AM Can Marketing Still Lay Golden 'Growth' Eggs in a Post Pandemic World? By Stephen Sumner Prior to this pandemic marketing communications should have been about 8% of the marketing function’s duties. However, it increasingly...
4/26/2021 12:00:00 AM Why Retailers are Getting Killed by Their Own Customers & The CMO. By Stephen Sumner On average, CMOs are the shortest-tenured members of the C-suite. Their boards demand greatness from them—expecting top marketers to be...
4/12/2021 11:12:26 AM Are You Still Marketing Like It's 2019? By Stephen Sumner My journey into marketing started in retail operations, and then into general management. I like to think I moved up the corporate...
3/5/2021 11:08:21 AM If you’re doing structured Employee Advocacy today, consider reviewing your scope By Tim Hughes If you’re doing structured Employee Advocacy today, consider reviewing your scope This is not me saying this, this is conclusion that...
2/6/2021 3:20:42 PM A 2021 resolution for CEOs: Put social media to work for you By Tim Hughes This article opens up with a great metaphor. "Few New Years’ resolutions come as a surprise. Cultivating a meditation practice,...
2/3/2021 11:56:23 AM Why Social Media Is The Fertile Soil for Post-Pandemic Sales By Tim Hughes Every few months, Adam and I get pitched a product that will "revolutionise sales". It always feels that I'm some sort of investor on an...
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...
1/27/2021 10:04:34 AM CMOs Expect A Budget Bounce Back This Year But Boards Have Other Plans By Tim Hughes Here we are are a year from our original lockdown and, here in the UK we are still under lockdown. The vastness of the pandemic is...
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...
12/11/2020 9:20:34 AM How Digital Strategies Can Support B2B Revenue KPIs By Tim Hughes We talk to businesses everyday that have had revenue and pipeline impacted over the last 12 months. When you ask these companies what...
11/23/2020 12:26:54 PM Your content will make you or break you in the 2020s... By Digital Leadership Associates “I don’t know what to write about…” “why would anyone be interested in what I’ve got to say…” “I start to write content but then delete...
10/28/2020 3:09:43 PM CMOs Expected to Reach Same KPIs with Less Budget, Despite COVID-19 Challenges By Tim Hughes Here is some interesting research by 10Fold. 150 marketing executives from B2B technology companies in the US were surveyed Same Results,...
10/15/2020 11:12:52 AM Bravery: An Underrated Virtue for Chief Marketing Officers 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...
10/2/2020 11:14:33 AM The New Rules of Leadership: 5 Forces Shaping Expectations of CEOs By Tim Hughes Interesting research from MIT "Groundbreaking international research by MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) reveals that...