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How to Unlock Your B2B Business’ Potential with an App

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If you’ve ever asked yourself, “If I’m not a B2C e-commerce business, what purpose would a custom app serve?” you might be surprised by the engagement benefits an app can bring to B2B businesses. 

Depending on your business objectives, a custom app may actually be the key to uncovering marketing and efficiency opportunities for your business.

Apps aren’t just trendy; they're powerful tools that allow you to unlock unique functionalities that your business can use to enhance your offering.

 

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Boost your Marketing ROI with the powerful HubSpot Content Assistant

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HubSpot Content Assistant is a powerful tool that is destined to transform the way you create and optimise your marketing content. But what exactly is HubSpot Content Assistant, and how does it work? 

In this blog, we will explore this incredible tool in detail to uncover its key features and immense potential, and discuss how to leverage the extensive capabilities ofHubSpot Content Assistantto optimise your content and streamline your processes.

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How to Implement a Pillar Content Strategy for Financial Advisors

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When it comes to a successful content marketing strategy, producing high-quality and valuable content is only half the battle. To attract leads and engage your audience, they first need to be able to find your content. But with more than 600 million blogs on the internet and an estimated 7.5 million blog posts per day, getting your content in front of your target audience can be quite the challenge. 

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How to Run an Inbound Marketing Campaign for Financial Advisory Firms

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If you’re a financial advisor looking to get started on your next marketing campaign, you’re probably wondering how best to connect with your target audience. The traditional method would be an outbound marketing strategy in which messaging is pushed ‘out’ to consumers to get them interested in your services. But wouldn’t it be so much easier if your audience came to you instead?

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The Benefits of Using a CRM System to Power Your Construction Business

9 min read

You wouldn’t construct a building without solid foundations, and nor should you try to build customer relationships without a solid base of information.

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The Importance of Branding for Tender Driven Construction Firms

4 min read

Securing contracts through a tendering process is a vital business development strategy for most construction firms, and for good reason. However, taking a proactive brand building approach to your business growth as well, will unlock many new opportunities that may not otherwise have been available.

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Celebrity Endorsements and the Rise of B2B Influencer Marketing

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For thousands of years, society has been driven by influential people who are able to inspire people’s beliefs and decisions. Today, the rise of influencer marketing and celebrity endorsements represents a growing opportunity for brands to leverage fame and expertise in order to earn their target audience’s trust while inspiring them to make purchases.  

But while celebrity endorsements and influencer marketing have long been considered a powerful tool in the belt of B2C marketers, today, we’d like to show you how these marketing strategies can also be used in the B2B space to drive sales like never before.  

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Seeing B2B Marketing Strategy from the Tactics

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B2B Marketing strategic planning has become lost in the sea of marketing tactics. Consider that in the 1970’s, the average person saw 500-1600 ads per day - there was TV, radio, print and a smattering of other media options to be considered. Fast forward to 2021, and research suggests that the average person is exposed to 6,000 to 10,000 ads per day, with an explosion of media choices driven by the digitisation of all media.

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How to generate sustained growth with B2B Marketing

8 min read

It stands to reason that sustained revenue and profit growth is the long-term goal of most B2B businesses and yet, for many businesses they experience the cycle of boom and bust when it comes to business growth.

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How to Position your Financial Advisory Brand for Success

5 min read

There’s a sameness that has crept into the financial services marketplace – across the board from accountants to planners and brokers the brand colours, claimed expertise and the tone of voice is quite similar. It’s almost as if there’s an unconscious feeling of comfort and safety that we experience by being part of the ‘herd’ and thus we gravitate to what we know.

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7 Steps to a Successful Content Marketing Workshop

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Content Marketing is the opposite of set and forget style marketing. It requires ongoing analysis, insight and collaboration between marketing team members and wider business stakeholders. Content marketing workshops are a great way to ensure a plan that provides a constant flow of themes and topics that will attract, engage and delight both prospects and customers.
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Brand and Content Marketing. What’s the difference?

4 min read

Today, Content Marketing is one of the most widely used marketing approaches, but has it replaced Brand Marketing? And how does it differ and which one should lead the other?

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How to create a content marketing calendar that works

3 min read

Staying organised with your content marketing is one of the easiest enablers of success that’s in your control. Being organised is a complete choice and given the resource intensive and dynamic nature of content marketing it is a non-negotiable if you are looking to drive success.

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How to take a strategic approach with your content marketing

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The thing about content marketing is that it can often be characterised by the manic execution demanded by the dynamic nature of social and digital media. By taking a strategic approach to content marketing, you’ll focus your effort on solving the needs of your buyer persona and aligning them with the helpful solutions inherent in your brand.

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The Definitive Guide to Content Marketing

9 min read

The decline of disruptive marketing. The way we consume content today is so different to the way we did even just a few years ago.

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Take full control over your website performance with Hubspot

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It can be challenging for marketers and business owners to make changes and upgrades to their website, let alone dynamically test different content tactics. Having to go to the developer is expensive and time consuming and if your IT team manage the site, you’ll need to wait in their priority queue. Either way, you are not leveraging the inherent possibilities that online marketing and commerce offers.

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The Ultimate Guide to B2B Sales and Marketing Alignment

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Let’s face it. Aligning your B2B sales and marketing strategies isn’t easy. 

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WHAT IS ACCOUNT-BASED MARKETING AND HOW CAN IT GROW KEY ACCOUNTS?

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The best marketing strategies offer a personalised customer journey that leads prospects gently through each stage of the buying cycle. Account-based marketing (ABM) takes this a step further by tailoring marketing campaigns to each and every prospect, offering a more personal approach to marketing.

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How to unlock the potential of your Digital Sales and Marketing Agency

4 min read

Quick tip – Look for a Digital Marketing AND Sales Agency.

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HOW TO CREATE SALES CONTENT TO CLOSE MORE LEADS

6 min read

It’s well known that a content strategy is a great lead-generation tool, but many marketers fail to recognise that it can be a powerful sales enablement tool as well. By focusing on creating sales content that provides valuable information for your prospects, you’ll be able to generate, educate and qualify leads before they’ve even made contact with your sales team.

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WHAT IS LEAD SCORING AND HOW CAN IT GROW SALES?

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It’s your marketing team’s job to attract leads so that your sales team can convert them into customers. But how does your sales team sort the good leads from the bad?

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How to use content marketing in your sales funnel to generate demand

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The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) found that 87% of B2B marketers use content marketing in their sales funnel to attract leads and drive engagement. Yet only 9% claim to be fully satisfied with their content strategy. .

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Easy ways to unleash the power of New into your business

3 min read

Intuitively we are programmed to notice and respond emotionally to certain things in life. And one of these ‘things’ is anything new. We are inherently curious creatures and anything new tends to send our curiosity into hyper drive.

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The Ultimate Guide to Local Area Marketing Success

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You may have heard that we are living in the experience economy? It’s true! We crave authentic experiences that are real, relevant and useful. And one of the best ways to deliver this experience for your customers is local area marketing, no matter what the size of your business is.

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Why content marketing fails to deliver results

4 min read

Creating and producing content is incredibly time consuming and resource intensive, so when it fails to attract and convert prospects it can be demoralising.

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Why design is the make or break ingredient in digital prototyping

3 min read

Whatever kind of product or service you sell, digital prototyping is a crucial process that affects the entire cycle from testing, production and manufacturing right through to sales.

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What topics should my business blog about?

3 min read

The simple advice is to publish blog topics that answer every question that your customers have.

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Content marketing strategies for recessionary times

3 min read

With most economic experts now agreeing that Australia is now in a recession, we ask the question in this blog... What content marketing strategies can we utlise to maximise revenues during these tough economic times?

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Why Video is your Sales Secret Weapon

3 min read

Video is your sales secret weapon because video out engages every medium except face to face.

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How to create a memorable customer experience

4 min read

How often do you hear anyone enthuse: “OMG, what a business!” I’m guessing, not very often. Perhaps that’s because their experience wasn’t very memorable.

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How to create branding success

6 min read

The success of your business is dependent upon many ‘things’ – customers, capital, risk, people, culture, products… Well, consider this - Is your brand a priority among these ‘things’?

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How to get the best results from your CRM implementation

3 min read

In our role as a digital marketing agency, we come across many companies thinking about CRM implementation or indeed, switching CRM providers. And it’s fair to say that most are hopelessly unprepared for the requirements of the on-boarding process.

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How to run a successful sales strategy workshop

6 min read

The key benefit of having a unified sales strategy is that everyone in the business is on the same page when it comes to understanding the roadmap for revenue and profit success.

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What is Smarketing? Can Sales and Marketing Integration drive growth?

5 min read

Your sales and marketing teams both share the same goal of generating effective and sustainable growth, and yet they often work independently of one another. In fact, sometimes the relationship between sales and marketing looks less like a partnership and more like a rivalry.

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How to cut through the noise when sales prospecting

5 min read

A quick Google search reveals that we are exposed to around 5,000 ad messages per day.

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Why video content is so important for marketing in the digital age

3 min read

It is easy to see how significant video content marketing is in today’s digital age. Video is engaging us on nearly every platform and like TV engages all of the senses. The only difference from the broadcast TV model is that we choose to view.

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Marketing automation in 7 easy steps

5 min read

Marketing automation is bandied around regularly in meeting rooms and the media these days. So how do you get started with marketing automation?

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What is a flywheel and how does it relate to growing your business?

5 min read

There are so many buzzy terms in business these days! Now add to that list, the flywheel! The fly… what were my first thoughts!

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How to say ‘no thanks’ using the prospect fit matrix

3 min read

Sales prospecting is a tough business. The conversion ratios are usually low and handling rejection is challenging, but a part of the job.

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8 reasons why you should use HubSpot for your business

5 min read

One of the most common questions we hear when talking to clients about Inbound or Digital Marketing is, “why do we need to implement HubSpot to execute my Inbound Marketing and Sales strategy?

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Achieve the most out of HubSpot! How to conduct a HubSpot audit

4 min read

One of the first things I learnt in Business School was that the only certainty is change itself.

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Defining marketing strategy in the digital age

3 min read

The word strategy in the context of marketing is used ubiquitously by most of us. We are all prone to its overuse and indeed misuse.

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The foundation of content marketing is still your blog

4 min read

Blogs have been around for a while now and it is estimated that there are over a billion blogs out there. So, do you need to blog anymore? The short answer is yes because blogs are the foundational content format to leverage you content marketing off.

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How to migrate existing seo to a new website

3 min read

As businesses grow, the internet evolves and technology improves, the need for upgrading, moving or overhauling your website is inevitable.

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The battle of CRMs - HubSpot vs Salesforce

6 min read

A question we are often are asked – “I know of Salesforce, and you seem to be selling HubSpot, so which is the better CRM?”

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Inbound Marketing for Financial Service Providers

4 min read

One of the key findings in the recent Banking Royal Commission revolved around the loss of trust in the financial services industry.

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Marketing opportunities for Brokers and Advisory businesses post the Banking Royal Commission

8 min read

Now that the findings from the Banking Royal Commission are out, we have delved into the marketing opportunities for brokers and advisory businesses. Discover marketing opportunities for Brokers and Advisory businesses post the Banking Royal Commission.

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20 SEO tips and tools you can apply to your website today

4 min read

There is always something new popping up in the Search Engine Optimisation world. If you have decided to market your business online this is a world you will want to keep up with.

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The Pros and Cons of DIY Digital Marketing Vs Employing an Agency

5 min read

In recent times, businesses are starting to ask the question – should we undertake the planning and activities of digital marketing with internal and freelance resources or should we hire an external agency?

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The essential components of a Digital Strategy

4 min read

Research from Smart insights found that 49% of organisations do not have a clearly defined digital marketing strategy, yet today, an online presence is vital for almost all businesses.

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7 compelling reasons why you need a digital marketing strategy

4 min read

The world of digital marketing can often be characterised by “doing”. For example, creating emails, blogs, display ads, social media posts, videos and more.

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5 sales presentation tips for closing more business

3 min read

It's not what you say, it's how you say it. Intuitively we know this to be true and research backs this up.The sales presentation is your time to shine and close more business!

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7 ways inbound marketing can grow your business

3 min read

Inbound marketing is a marketing and sales framework used to attract, engage, convert and delight customers. More than this Inbound is a human centered way of doing business.

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How to foster a culture of innovation that drives business growth

3 min read

A lot of rhetoric is associated with innovation in businesses today.

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5 essential elements of a long-term growth strategy

3 min read

Most leaders and employees would agree that a long-term growth strategy is an essential element for all businesses.

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20 growth hacks you can execute today

6 min read

Sometimes you just need a short term response that changes the business growth momentum.

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How to drive sustainable revenue demand

6 min read

Growing a business with sustainable revenue demand, without the lumpy effects of the 'boom and bust cycle' is the dream of most business owners and managers.

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Onboarding for Inbound Sales

3 min read

So you want to go inbound with your sales processes. Good for you.

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How to choose the right CRM for sales and marketing requirements

4 min read

When you’re choosing CRM software, you need to find something that serves the needs of both your sales and marketing teams.

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5 outcomes you can expect from sales enablement workshops

2 min read

Sales Enablement is growing in popularity as a strategic methodology designed to have all sales people working on a common, collaborative framework with the entire business supporting them.

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How sales enablement can enhance the customer journey

4 min read

The rise of the internet has changed the way that people shop. These days it’s about taking your customers on a journey that gently guides them from the moment they realise they have a problem, right through to making the purchase that will solve it.

Here’s how sales enablement can enhance the customer journey.

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Inbound and outbound sales approaches. What works best?

2 min read

Having a sales framework that your entire company is aligned with is super important and a key starting point for ongoing sustainable sales success.

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The fundamentals of qualifying sales leads

9 min read

One of the most important tasks sales people have is to qualify their sales leads.

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how to improve sales and profitability with existing customers

2 min read

This blog takes a look at combining the 'hunter' and 'farmer' sales personas to ‘hunt the farm’ - seeking out latent customer demand through the use of data, analytics and creativity.

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5 ways to add velocity to your sales pipeline

4 min read

Your Business Development team have worked hard to get those leads into your pipeline. Now it's time to speed up your sales pipeline with some high velocity to grow faster and better.

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Does your business have a 'Freemium'?

3 min read

Heard the term before? Not quite sure how it might apply to your business?

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IS YOUR CRM PROVIDING VALUE FOR MONEY?

5 min read

In the 2020 State of the CMO report, the number one investment priority by marketing departments was stated as marketing automation, followed by CRM and then content creation. With CRM and Martech becoming such a priority, the question is, are marketers getting their value for money from this investment?

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The Smarter Way to Build Websites that Succeed

3 min read

If you’ve ever gone through the process of developing a new website, you probably would have experienced the potential for a never ending round of refinements and scope extensions. While this seems like a good idea at the time, there is the inevitable frustration of scope creep and budget-blowouts that are often associated with this style of web design, which is often done without customer input. 

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3 Tips to Avoid Social Media Fatigue

3 min read

One of the struggles that we have faced ourselves, and that we hear from talking to other SME’s, is trying to decide where to invest your marketing efforts when you have limited time, and limited budget.

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Chatbots, Live Chat or Conversations?

4 min read

Messenger and Chat Apps are incredible tools that are allowing businesses to better serve customers, and ultimately make life easier. 

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The rise of messaging apps: Tools to help grow your business

3 min read

The growth of mobile as a platform is significant and has been well documented as its usage for accessing the internet now outperforms the desktop.

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6 Tips to Improve your Email Design and functionality

4 min read

Email marketing is still the mainstay of many marketing efforts, so creating email marketing that is effective, relevant and that converts your prospects into customers, is a challenge that requires ongoing effort.

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Keeping up with the Search Engines

4 min read

Almost 30 years has passed since the beginning of the internet and search engines, and by-golly, it has come a long way. 

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Chatbots - the good, the bad and the Tay-bot

3 min read

We may know that it’s crucial to be customer focussed in today’s world, but have you asked yourself - what’s your customer response time like as a business? Days? Hours? 

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5 takeaways from David Gaff’s inbound sales boot camp

2 min read

I’ve loved getting my hands dirty on my Inbound Marketing journey. 

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How to run a successful marketing strategy workshop? 10 useful tips.

8 min read

We increasingly live in an agile workplace, and Marketing Strategy workshops are a key part of agile practices. 

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Improving Customer Leads with a Buyer Journey

2 min read

We have seen in our previous blogs that strategy development starts with being customer-centric. 

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The Importance of Customer Centric Marketing

5 min read

Dear Moleskine Diary,
As I write in you with my easy glide Bic biro pen, I reflect upon my day.

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How to build B2B buyer personas

3 min read

In B2B markets, there could be anywhere between 1-6 stakeholders involved in a buying decision. In addition to this complexity, a B2B research study found that nearly 50% of buyers are now spending more time researching multiple alternatives online. So achieving B2B sales is getting tougher as each day passes!

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How to drive B2B leads using Social Media

4 min read

We have all heard of social media, right! You might even be scrolling through a social platform right now as you read this blog. Indeed, you possibly even discovered this blog through a social media platform. And that's the segue to our topic.

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Why do Inbound? Sales and Marketing alignment is a great start.

2 min read

It's ironic that we all intuitively know that sales and marketing teams should work together more effectively, yet our experience tells us otherwise.

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Improve Your Website Performance

2 min read

What makes a website great? More importantly to businesses, what makes a website rank? 

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4 Useful Tools To Boost Website Performance

2 min read

There are many factors that need to be considered to determine website performance. 

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Increase Your Website Ranking Using SEO

2 min read

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a comparatively mature practice in Internet marketing, yet, according to HubSpot Research* the average score for SEO is only 18.6 out of 30.

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Technical Tips to Improve Your Website Performance

3 min read

In today's world we hear so much about the importance of your website's UI (User Interface) and UX (User Experience), but what do we need to consider regarding the technical factors required for optimal website performance?

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How to Measure Digital Marketing ROI

2 min read

Monitoring and understanding your digital marketing presence is vital for your marketing department. 

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What Factors to Consider in Marketing ROI Analysis?

1 min read

It’s one thing to ask, “What’s my Marketing ROI?”  However, determining the answer can be very difficult.  

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What is an Acceptable Marketing ROI?

1 min read

“So is this a good Return on Marketing Investment?” asks your manager. 

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3 Reasons Why You Should Measure Marketing ROI

1 min read

Despite much talk over the last decade about measuring return on marketing investment there are still many companies missing out. 

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How to Measure Return on Marketing Investment

2 min read

There are essentially five methodologies available to measure return on marketing investment. 

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Marketing Strategy and Execution, They’re Better Together

2 min read

Strategy and execution are not distant cousins. They should be considered together, not separately. They should coexist.

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3 Lessons Marketers Can Learn From Agile Marketing

1 min read

It seems that in business these days being agile is the new, new thing.

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Ingredient Branding. The Secret Sauce for B2B Success

3 min read

The key to B2B branding and marketing is to think of your brand as an ingredient that makes your customer's brand more appealing to their customers. In other words... Are you the secret sauce in your customer's product 'recipe'?

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Is your brand ready for the Collaborative Economy?

2 min read

The age of hyper consumption is on the decline. 

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Delight Your Customers, By Reflecting On Your Business

2 min read

I feel that as a society, we live very unreflective lives and in the process, do our businesses and ourselves a dis-service. 

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Collaborating To Create Content That Skyrockets Your Business

3 min read

Of course we think being collaborative is cool. We’re clearly better together as a collective and with a collaborative mindset anything can be achieved.

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How To Use Collaboration In Order To Grow Your Business

2 min read

Collaboration is key in so many aspects of a successful business.

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Is Your Brand Increasing In Value?

4 min read

A brand is ... an asset, an emotion, a promise, a business. 

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Emotional Engagement. What does it really mean?

3 min read

We know from behavioural economic research that emotional decision making plays is the key driver of sustained success. So how do we win the hearts of our prospects and customers?

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Maximise ROI Using Social Media

4 min read

Return On Investment (ROI), the elusive, concrete ROI. As marketers we know how difficult it is to measure direct causality and direct profit impact of much of our marketing efforts. 

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