I was recently asked for comment on Retail Gazette’s (on their new site Marketing Beat) take on Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and its impact on Marketers. Read the piece here. Or here were my full comments: Elon Musk has not really shown his cards (yet) and suggested how he wants to drive the business […]
Every Marketing & Growth leader has a point in their career where they have to educate their c-suite/founding team/leadership team on their Marketing funnel. Why? It has either never been done, it was explained poorly before or the market has shifted and you need to explain the new ways of driving the Marketing department forward. […]
The Truth Behind All Executing The Same Practises We have all been there, in a performance catch up we are asked “why we are off target?”.Then the follow on questions quickly follow to get to the bottom as quickly as possible: What has happened? What did we change? Did Google, Facebook or Apple change something? […]
Following on from The Marketing Leaders Guide to 2022, I interviewed Marketing Lead Simon Swan, Simon tackles seven questions to help you shape your 2022. 1. What was your biggest Marketing lessons Don’t make assumptions: Every business, it’s objectives and goals are different so it’s important to get into the facts and details as to […]
LinkedIn can be a fascinating platform, recently there was an interesting debate around “your job is marketing not finance“. This is an age-old debate, whether you as a Marketing lead need to be good at finance or be on top of the finance side. I have been lucky across my career, I have worked with […]
On a number of occasions, I have been asked how to build out a Growth team or department. Similar to most organisation design shifts, there is no perfect way, there is no perfect structure, however, it requires much planning and a breakdown of: What you are trying to achieve, What you believe you need to […]
Recently I have been asked about the most important skill for Marketers (more specifically in H2 2021) and my answer is simple… Why? As a Marketer you will need to have bags of resilience: When a campaign doesn’t quite land – you will need to show resilience. More channels are more work for most Marketing […]
Last year I set up Focus, which is a dedicated company culture and company strategy consultant. My mission is to: fix the broken world of work. Why? Many people have had negative experiences in business and they typically come down to two key elements, the workplace and the people. Unfortunately, businesses just don’t have the […]
Back in 2014, I was helping brands with their Marketing, typically either auditing existing teams and activities or helped to build our their department and work with teams on workshops and developing long term campaigns. In a recent googlemail search, I came across a deck I ran through and worked with a large travel company. […]
As part of the Future Of Marketing series, I took a closer look at Peloton and how they built and developed much more than a product or a series of products, they recreate the brand, the luxury fitness at home category. Here are the slides from the broader presentation: Connected High End Fitness Trend Fitness […]