Brilliant creative briefs: how to get the best work from your agencies
We’ve all been there – you re-read a brief, it sounds spot-on and then bam – you’re locked in an ongoing back-and-forth with your agency making countless changes and all of a sudden you’re hit with...
Case study: How Improving Marketing Ops Saved Us Millions And Made Time For Strategy
The Australian Financial Services industry has been heavily scrutinised for the last two years by a Banking Royal Commission and regulators, which have identified deficiencies in operational risk...
I Once Knew a Marketer…
I once knew a Marketer who promised me a chart to heaven, but took everyone through a matrix to hell. He had a romance with RACI, a penchant for PERT and a gal who loved GANTT. (Last I heard, he died...
The Transition to Agile Marketing: Be prepared!
Before you decide to implement an Agile Marketing process, it’s important to assess the benefit to your organisation of adopting Agile Marketing and your readiness for it — both from the point of...
It’s Marketing Resource Management… but not as we know it!
It’s always exciting in business when you see the value of a new opportunity, and I believe we’re witnessing the emergence and redefinition of a whole new category of marketing technology software —...
Financial services brands get personal but need the tools to deliver
The increased level of personalisation now available to financial services brands through the responsiveness and immediacy of digital media and marketing channels is a double-edged sword.
8 Simple Steps to Hack Agile Marketing
There’s a cult of ‘agility’ emerging in marketing as businesses look for ways to compress all elements of their go-to-market timeframe. Six to eight months to launch a major campaign is no longer...
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...
Inspiring Creative Briefs: Meet Graham, the Crash-Proof Man
Writing a brief that inspires a creative outcome is something with which many marketers struggle. In this blog series, we look at how award-winning creative campaigns go from brief to results. ...
Simple announces the Intelligent Marketing Platform powered by Microsoft technology
Today marked an exciting development in the history of Simple! Simple’s CEO appeared onstage at Microsoft’s Business Forward customer event in Melbourne with James Phillips, Corporate Vice President,...