I was delighted to be invited to join B2B Marketing Magazine’s first ever podcast, to talk about the importance of creativity. For posterity, here’s the link… (I’m the middle speaker!)…
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My first ever podcast
A core argument for listening to customers
“The role of a sales person as a provider of information – as a walking, talking brochure – is obsolete. Your true competitive advantage is to be a collector of information. The only way to succeed is to know your buyer better. Not just what is posted on their company website or LinkedIn page, but their hopes, their vision, their fears. The things they reveal only to people they trust. And the only way to get that deep knowledge is by asking the right questions in the right way.”
Paul Cherry, sales effectiveness lecturer
Oh my… an emotional response to marketing technology
Embracing the old adage’ sharing is caring’, I’ve recently been going through one of those phases where marketing technology (‘martech’) has occupied a LOT of my time. Specifically, my team mates and I have been … Oh my… an emotional response to marketing technology
In an increasingly crowded marketplace, fools will compete on price. Winners will find a way to create lasting value in the customer’s mind.
Tom Peters, management guru
The 4 brand lessons I learned from 19 topless northern men
There has been a lot of rhetoric recently about how branding has changed in the modern era. For example, there is a mantra about the importance of our brand’s purpose to customers. And then there is the notion that customers ‘engage’ with our brands. A short while ago, I put those modern brand theories to the test, with the help of 19 topless northern men. They cleared things up for me quite nicely… … The 4 brand lessons I learned from 19 topless northern men
Does your brand sound desperate?
We’ve lost count of the number of companies run by ‘passionate, dedicated and committed teams’. Or ‘world-class leaders in their field’. Don’t over do it. Too much description makes you sound desperate or pushy…
Find your story and tell it simply. The facts are always more interesting than the flim-flam. We’re absolutely, utterly, passionate about that.
A Thousand Monkeys, writing agency
If you want to improve any aspect of marketing you need to understand how consumers think.
Phil Graves, psychology and behaviour expert
A brand is a promise of a certain kind of consistency and continuity over time
Virginia Postrel, news columnist
Bite-Sized Marcomms 