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...
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,...
How Artificial Intelligence is Powering Retail Transformation
Artificial intelligence will very soon be a cost of doing business for retailers. That’s one of the messages that emerged strongly from a recent retail forum hosted by Microsoft in Melbourne.The...
Brand consistency issues hinder marketers’ ability to tackle customer experience
Almost two in three marketers have expanded their responsibilities beyond marketing to include managing the customer experience but the same proportion still struggle to meet basic brand governance...
Productivity issues drive mainstream brands to try agile marketing
Agile transformations are back in vogue in business, it seems, with big companies taking to the media to talk publicly about how agile they’ve become. While ‘Agile’ was historically practised by...
9 Tips for Getting a Better Return from your Martech Investment
A former colleague returned from an international secondment with his employer recently to find the local marketing team had invested in a number of new martech tools while he was away, none of which...
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,...
Is version control the bane of your existence?
How do you know the correct version of your marketing content and collateral is the only version that gets distributed? On the face of it, this might seem like a redundant question. But is it?
