• What is an Omnichannel Experience and Do You Need One?

      The marketers have been at it again. Over a coffee one morning they created a new buzzword – omnichannel. There are numerous articles about it, telling you how important it is and that you must have one. But how can you be sure you need one if you’re not 100% certain what it is? […]

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  • How to Measure The Effectiveness of Your Content Marketing

      Content marketing is essential, but being a good writer doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be a great content marketer. Why? Because great content marketers also know how to measure the effectiveness of their writing and how to tweak what they put out to improve its impact. It’s a tall order to create a regular stream […]

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  • How to Write Value-orientated Content

      Online marketing is never static. What’s hot and what’s not is constantly changing, keeping marketers on their toes. One thing that is certain is that content marketing is central to SEO (search engine optimisation) and always will be. That’s all well and good, but how do you know what types of content are marketable? […]

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  • The Formula For Winning Content

      As a copywriter my heart sinks when I get an enquiry from a potential client (usually an agency) asking for x number of words on a specific subject with x% of keywords in it. Really? It doesn’t matter whether its website copy or articles, that kind of approach will only lead to one thing […]

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  • Can You Ever Be Truly Unique?

      It’s what you’re constantly told by your marketing department, marketing agency, copywriter and just about every other Tom, Dick and Harriet. If your business is to survive you must be unique. You must offer something no one else offers, work in a way no one else works and achieve things no one else has […]

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  • The Slippery Slope to Email Marketing Oblivion

      Email marketing, love it or loath it, it is one of the fastest, cheapest and most effective ways of building relationships with your customers. For starters, they signed up to hear from you, so you have a hungry audience just waiting for your latest missive. So why are you getting it so wrong? How […]

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  • What is Predictive Intelligence and Do You Need It?

        Here we go again. A group of marketers have come up with yet another indecipherable buzzword. What is Predictive Intelligence? The best way to define it is: “…the process of finding out how consumers react to sales messages and combining those findings with their characteristics. This data is then crunched and an automated […]

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  • Why Buzzwords Are The Pits – Especially Experiential Marketing

      I’ve not had a good rant for a while, so watch out, one’s on its way – and it’s all about buzzwords (and one in particular). What’s got me so riled? The word ‘experiential’. It’s one of the latest ideas buzzing round the marketing and events industries. Experiential marketing is basically a way of […]

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  • Move Over eCommerce, it’s Time to Make Way for Social Commerce

      eCommerce has been part of your business model for quite some time now. Over the years it has changed from a rather crude and clunky online sales experience, to an all singing all dancing smooth experience that places the customer right in the heart of everything. Although still incredibly important, eCommerce is changing – […]

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  • No One’s Engaging With My Content

      Frustrating, isn’t it? You put your heart and soul into the content you produce and yet you’re not getting any comments, likes or shares. What’s wrong with it? You’ve given it to your colleagues to read and they think it’s great, so what’s happening? Part of the problem is the amount of content there […]

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