The 5 lines of defence for marketing risk and compliance
Governance and compliance procedures are often taken for granted in marketing — until they fall down. But what happens when risk and compliance procedures go wrong?Imagine a financial institution...
7 Ways Simple helps CMOs Reduce Marketing Complexity
“Marketing is not easy. It’s hard.” Those words might have been uttered by any junior marketer, in any organisation, anywhere. In fact, they come from a conversation about marketing complexity...
*Simple launches in EMEA to help CMOs claw back cost of marketing complexity
LONDON – 10 October 2018: Australia-based marketing technology company Simple has opened a London office and announced its EMEA management team a month after an investment round worth AUD $17m to...
6 signs the only good CMO is a growth CMO
Growth CMOs are all the rage. Is it because so many brand owners need to show shareholders quarterly growth? Is it because digital marketing is so measurable and data so available that they have...
How to Build a Better Marketing Plan with Simple
Marketers spend a lot of their time planning. Talk to some marketers, and it feels like that’s all they do: plan out the year; set out the quarter; get into the nitty-gritty of the major themes and...
5 Steps to Designing an Effective Marketing Operations Implementation
The effective management of marketing resources is an omnipresent challenge in corporations, according to Kerry-Ann Benton, who has been involved with marketing resource management in many guises...
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...
3 Things I Hate About Marketing
How much time does your marketing team spend doing marketing? If half your time is wasted planning campaigns in spreadsheets, briefing and amending creative via convoluted email trails, or creating...
4 Things We Learned About Implementing Agile Marketing
There’s no doubt agile marketing is a hot topic in marketing circles, and it’s easy to see why. In a world that’s moving faster, agile marketing helps build nimbleness and adaptability into marketing...
Performance at the Heart of Simple’s Customer Success Philosophy
What do investment management and the customer success team at Simple have in common? Delve into the background of Simple’s chief customer officer Jenn Johnson and it becomes clear how a focus on...
