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 9:22:45 AM How Agile Retail Pop Ups & Social Media Are Creating a 'Whack A Mole' Challenge for Retail Multiples By Stephen Sumner Everywhere we look today we can access virtually any kind of content. If your on Facebook, Instagram, and now even on LinkedIn you will...
2/4/2021 1:07:09 PM When Inertia Is With the Consumer How Do You Maintain 'Front of Mind' Awareness? By Stephen Sumner Fickle lot those socially savvy consumers eh! Let's be honest with ourselves, retail adopted the homogenisation and the blandness of...
2/4/2021 12:41:05 PM 54% of Gen Z Have Made Money from Something They Have Created - Is 'Social Micro To Macro' The Next Biggest Threat to Retail? By Stephen Sumner Businesses are collapsing at an alarming rate, unemployment is rocketing around the world yet pent up creativity, innovation, and...
11/20/2020 9:09:44 AM The Myth Of Innovation: The Real Reason Your Company Needs To Digitize 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. ...
9/14/2020 10:37:19 AM What Big Business Can Learn From the SME Sector. By Stephen Sumner I spend a lot of time posting blogs about several macro consumer focused sectors, including 'Healthcare, Legal, Financial, and Retail'...
9/11/2020 10:05:41 AM Why Big Companies Struggle to Reinvent Themselves By Tim Hughes We can't solve our problems from the same level of thinking that created them" Albert Einstein. 4 years ago, I jumped from a corporate...
8/2/2020 10:11:17 AM Travel Retail Has Come to a Grinding Halt - Here's How To Unblock the Problem. By Stephen Sumner I write this blog in the middle of what should be annual vacation season for many northern hemisphere countries. It will soon be the...
7/15/2020 5:16:29 PM Creating the Right Kind of Urgency to Bring About Change By Tim Hughes I've just listened to an interview with Sarah Walker-Smith - CEO Shakespeare Martineau by Michelle Cravill on her Leadership podcast, you...
6/14/2020 10:35:19 AM How Social Media Can Help Save Retail & The High Street in the 'New Normal' By Stephen Sumner “Social media will play an even more important role in marketing post-COVID-19, as many retailers are slashing marketing budgets to...
5/20/2020 9:23:55 AM It Just Got Easier for Your Supplier to Cut You Out - Here's How! By Stephen Sumner Today's generations know nothing other than the free to access, free to use, lo-cost, no-cost digital world that many from previous...
5/10/2020 12:00:00 AM Why The CMO Needs To Become a 'Magic Growth Officer'. By Stephen Sumner "EasyJet scraps CMO role as Lis Blair departs" Her departure has prompted the airline to restructure its board so that marketing,...
5/10/2020 12:00:00 AM Why The Interview Process Will Never Be The Same Post Covid. By Stephen Sumner Let's assume you've made it to interview. The interview goes well and you land the job as CMO. The CEO is convinced you’re the best...
4/27/2020 11:40:05 AM Why Consumer Behaviour NOT Tech Drives Disruptive Change. By Stephen Sumner The warning signs have been there for sometime in retail la la land. In January 2020, the BRC noted there was a “seismic shift” in the...
4/16/2020 4:10:42 PM Rethinking B2B Content Marketing In Response To COVID-19 By Tim Hughes “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to...
3/23/2020 11:01:38 AM Why Using Behavioural Logic Will Help you to Connect with Audiences. By Stephen Sumner Where possible countries around the world are looking to mirror the 'lockdown' applied by China in order to enforce 'social distancing'....