Why Intellectual Property is Crucial to your Brand’s Digital Marketing Success
It should be a simple matter to get a copy of a brand ad from the brand owner, right? Um, not so fast. As the Simple team discovered recently, whether a brand owns the intellectual property in their...
Six Ways to Smash the Silo Effect that Plagues Marketing
Most customers are on first-name terms with the Silo Effect: you know, when you call your insurance company to discuss your home insurance policy and find if you also want to take a car insurance...
The Creative Brief: How Cochlear Gave Consumers a Hearing Test in Disguise
Listed hearing implant maker Cochlear was a well-known name in Australia due partly to the long history of the company and its founder Graeme Clark, who developed and implanted the world’s first...
The Death of the Spreadsheet Marketing Calendar
Managing all your marketing activity without a marketing calendar is a bit like having a dozen balls in the air and trying to guess how fast each one is spinning while riding a unicycle on a...
How to Consolidate 4 of Your Marketing Tools with 1 Solution
Anyone who’s ever been part of a marketing team understands how chaotic it can be to execute on strategy. This only gets worse the larger your team gets. You end up with tool chaos — multiple logins,...
How Simple Streamlined this Marketing Workflow by 45%
We wanted to help marketers understand how streamlining their marketing workflows saves time. So we created a marketing workflow to describe the process of creating a marketing workflow. Then we...
7 Tips for Achieving Consistency, Clarity and Cut-Through in Marketing
At a recent summit on customer experience, analyst firm Gartner debunked three myths about the customer experience. Instead of talking about how companies need to go above and beyond to delight the...
Why building your corporate memory muscle is your best marketing and CX investment
We all know there’s a high level of turnover in the average marketing team. How high? Well, according to a recent LinkedIn study, marketing roles have the highest turnover rate of any job function at...
Laying the foundations for transformational change in marketing
Few people know what it takes to deliver successful transformations in marketing and operations as well as Norma Abeyasekera, founder of Abey & Abey Consulting and former Director Operations,...
8 Tips for Tackling your Internal Agency’s Biggest Problem: Growth
Internal agencies are all the rage, it seems. Whether you’re in corporate marketing, retail, a technology start-up or a sector with specific needs such as higher education — marketing teams are...
