9/7/2020 11:34:43 AM Retailers Need to Stop Fighting with the Landlord & Do This. By Stephen Sumner The daily pressure on physical retailers around the world to meet the expected demands from consumers has never been greater. The bar to...
7/8/2020 2:10:05 PM Why You Should Adopt a Magazine style Catalog as a Key Part of the Retail Strategy Playbook. By Stephen Sumner As advertising has become increasingly dominated by the Facebook and Google duopoly, it would be easy to write off the print catalog as a...
7/5/2020 12:13:09 PM If Retail Don't Do This - Nothing Will Change. By Stephen Sumner I'm writing this blog following the first major release from the UK's version of Lockdown which saw many businesses such as hairdressers,...
6/3/2020 10:01:32 AM How Changes in Behavior By Covid 19 for Car Retailing Will Help to Kick Start the Sector. By Stephen Sumner As countries around the world start to ease their flavour of 'lockdown' one of those first sectors to be able to open up is the car...
6/3/2020 12:00:00 AM Why Today Brands Need Great Marketing Veterans More Than Ever. By Stephen Sumner The reason to hire a CMO is usually because you’ve got a big strategic problem to solve, you need to drive growth and become more...
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,...
5/3/2020 12:52:18 PM Recruiters Are Giving You What You Asked For - Which is Why You're Lost. By Stephen Sumner From what I can evidence prior to this crisis it seemed that CMO's and marketing teams have simply become the digital communication...
4/24/2020 8:32:31 PM An Exit Plan From Lockdown - Why Track & Trace Apps are flawed & not the solution. By Stephen Sumner Whilst governments are focused on the immediate priorities of managing the respective health systems they are also having to keep a very...
3/18/2020 12:00:00 AM Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder By Digital Leadership Associates is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2011. Whilst, I have not read the book, I skimmed through it on Blinkist, a...
2/10/2020 8:16:12 AM Three Transformations: Self, Career And Company By Tim Hughes Social media has changed society and its changed business. Just think, the Arab spring, the ALS Ice Bucket challenge and turn on the TV...
1/15/2020 10:45:25 AM What can M&S, John Lewis, Debenhams and others learn from employee ideas that generate revenues?. By Stephen Sumner In June 2019 I received a number of 'confidential' messages via social media from a number of extremely concerned employees from that...
12/30/2019 12:06:31 PM The familiar signs of retailers who lose the 'WHY'. By Stephen Sumner A new year and a new decade, or is it? When we in multi-channel retail reflect on the past decade what have we really learnt about the...
12/9/2019 12:00:00 AM The micro behavioural trends impacting macro retail economics. By Stephen Sumner If your relaxing over the festive period after a hard earned year in retail maybe you should take some time to take a look at the fashion...
12/3/2019 10:47:23 AM Display advertising could reach nearly $80 billion by 2021 as technologies evolve. By Stephen Sumner History shows that the most successful advertising channels have been the ones that have reached consumers in their homes, where the vast...
12/3/2019 12:00:00 AM Digital Transformation - what is it? By Stephen Sumner According to the MIT Sloan Management Review, companies that have embraced digital transformation are 26% more profitable than their...