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...
6 Mistakes to Avoid When Implementing Agile Marketing
Most chief executives wouldn’t even consider asking their head of human resources to run product a couple of days a week. Nor do you generally see the head of finance running public relations...
Five Reasons to get a Marketing Operations Platform (aka MRM) this year
Take a minute to think about this thorny marketing operations issue: how much of your team’s marketing activity is really aligned with your strategic goals? For one client, prior to its appointment...
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...
9 ways to modernise your marketing plan
From balancing your marketing mix to zero-based budgeting and feasibility checks – we talk with Jennifer Johnson (Rogue Consulting) and Kate Gunby (Guided by Numbers) to break down planning for the...
MRM: The missing piece in your martech stack
Would you buy a car that had doors and a steering wheel but no engine? You could motor down hills and coast for a while on flat roads, but come to an uphill stretch and suddenly you’d find you’re at...
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 —...
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...
Is the growth of martech shrinking our marketing capability?
“Data is sending us all crazy.” A recent direct quote from the top marketer at one of the UK’s most prestigious consumer brands.As we’re all diligently locked into the process of designing the...
