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...
6 Things to Do After a Marketing Team Restructure
Marketing teams were once relatively stable structures with brand and direct marketing teams, perhaps a communications or events team, and a few agency partners. That has changed with the addition of...
6 Essential Elements for Cross-Functional Marketing Team Success
Cross-functional teams were once the domain of short-term or discrete projects – set up for a few months or a couple of years, and disbanded once the job was done. But the need for greater agility...
5 Signs Your Marketing Planning Process Needs an Update
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” That’s the claim of time management guru Alan Lakein. So why don’t more marketers look forward to...
