What Is Marketing Resource Management (MRM)? The Complete Guide for Marketing Teams
Ask most marketing managers how they manage their team's workload and you'll hear a familiar story: a mix of spreadsheets, Slack messages, and a whiteboard that everyone means to update but no one...
10 Hidden Costs of Inefficient Marketing Processes: How to Avoid Them
When it comes to enhancing marketing outcomes, much emphasis is often placed on distribution channels and determining the ideal media mix. In the past, when media expenditure accounted for a larger...
Introducing MRM Software: Unlocking Cost Savings and Profit Boosts
MRM software has garnered significant praise for its array of features, but how exactly does it impact your bottom line? As discussed earlier, the modern MRM solution acts as an all-in-one hub for...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
5 Reasons to Consider Creating An In-house Agency Now
You might remember the controversial Pepsi ad featuring Kendall Jenner that was pulled by the soft drink maker shortly after it first went to air in 2017, effectively for trivialising serious social...
