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28 October, 2020

Influencing the education sector

The impact of Covid-19 has meant it is crucial for brands to understand consumer behaviour quickly in order to maintain …

20 October, 2020

Navigating - and surviving - a recession

If you’re a marketer old enough to have worked through the recession of 2007-8, you might think you know how the next …

05 October, 2020

Tertiary education: time to start thinking like a company

Covid is proving to be both a major threat and a major opportunity in tertiary education, but it seems to me no one is …

01 October, 2020

Messaging, and how to get it wrong

I think we can all agree (politics aside) that navigating the messaging around Covid-19 was never going to be easy. …

29 September, 2020

Memories of Kiwi farmers trading their way out of trouble

The UK has always had a successful agri sector – but the challenges right now are without precedent, from pandemic …

18 September, 2020

Making the unconscious conscious

In my last blog I touched on the opportunistic strategy of colliding activism and behavioural change marketing to help …

27 August, 2020

Education brands – how to survive harsh times

Today’s education providers have a real opportunity to stand out by swiftly reconsidering their customer experience.

10 August, 2020

Marketers need a 5-year plan

As we have said recently, a lot of well-qualified economists and commentators suggest we’re quite likely facing a ‘W’ …

03 August, 2020

Marketing in 2020: how to survive, adapt and thrive

As a marketer preparing for the next 12 months it would be easy to feel overwhelmed or uncertain, even fearful. Here …

30 July, 2020

Influence with influencers

With the explosion in influencer marketing - the industry was worth $2bn in 2017 and is set to reach $15bn by 2022 - I …

28 July, 2020

How ‘movements’ create an environment of change

It starts with an injustice, which manifests into anger and frustration. It then turns into a movement, which is …

23 July, 2020

100% virtual should be the new normal

The pandemic is rewriting the rules of customer experience. But what do Covid’s sudden seismic shifts mean for …