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How to use events to market your business – why in-person marketing trumps content and digital

Corporate Events, B2B Relationship Marketing

Contemporary marketing talk is all about marketing automation, content and sales funnels. There’s a significant amount of value to be gained from streamlining your marketing and sales processes – but there’s one thing all these marketing tactics and strategies are aiming for: to get you in front of your potential …

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Does your website communicate your value proposition?

B2B Relationship Marketing

Do you know what “welcome to outside insight” means? No, me neither. I have no idea who Kaspar Kubica is, but I absolutely **love** his insightful analysis of corporate websites that are so caught up in the youthful tone of voice that they forget to tell you what they do.…

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Are you maximising your event spending?

Corporate Events, B2B Relationship Marketing, Event Industry Consulting

Events are a consistently growing proporition of B2B marketing budgets – and an industry in themselves. According to a report by the Convention Industry Council, about 225 million people attend more than 1.8 million events sponsored by companies and associations, including 270,000 conventions and 11,000 trade shows per year. …

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Tech, business and social trends – what’s on the cards?

B2B Relationship Marketing

Really interesting infographic on future trends from Frank Diana at Tata Consultancy, that’s instructive to anyone in business. Based on recent / current scenarios and emerging and future accelerators. We’re definitely at big data / analytics / smart homes etc – it’s his future ideas that look surprising. Democracy 2.0 …

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What’s the impact of automation, AI and data analytics on marketing for business and professional services?

B2B Relationship Marketing

We live in a digital world, and automation affects our everyday life. From the automated call centre voice sending you to the department you don’t want, to automated emails from your utilities supplier, we’ve arrived in a world of automation. It seems like yesterday that I was curating content and …

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What can business brands learn from my old school’s uniform / brand update?

B2B Relationship Marketing

I’m a proud “old girl” of Manchester High School for Girls, and of course the most famous alumni are the Pankhurst sisters.

Seems fitting to discuss this on election day here in the UK, given that MHSG has decided to forgo the over a century old Manchester worker bee black …

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Pokémon GO – financial services positioning?

B2B Relationship Marketing

Fascinating Pokémon GO tube poster campaign spotted at Moorgate tube this morning.

Copy reads:

World leaders in
financial services,
the arts and
Poké ball throwing.
GO LONDON

So the first thing I’m asking is – what’s the objective? Is there a PokéStrategy to reach financial services and arts sectors in …

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Mary Meeker / Kleiner Perkins – internet trends 2017

B2B Relationship Marketing

Been waiting for this! A total must-have for all digital-savvy mareters who want to understand the underlying trends and themes of the market.

Kleiner Perkins general partner Mary Meeker launched the 22nd edition of the Internet Trends Report at the Code Conference last week. Dating back to 1995, when Mary …

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Infographics for property

B2B Relationship Marketing

More infographics – this beautiful set created to reflect the angst of a local property market in San Francisco. I love the clarity of design and accessibility of information. See the full image here.…

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Android – pitching difference

B2B Relationship Marketing ,

Fascinating tube ad from Android – “be together, not the same”. Basically saying – don’t be a sheep and buy Apple, be an individual with us. Clever positioning.…

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