Strategy Articles

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Strategy
B2B

How good is your marketing? Find out with The High-Performance Marketing Scorecard

How good is your marketing?

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Sales
Strategy

Customer journey vs buyer journey vs user journey: what’s the difference?

Is a buyer journey the same as a user journey? Is a user journey simply a customer journey by another name?

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Strategy
Inbound Marketing

How to get the best work from your marketing agency

Every time we start a new client relationship we say, ‘What is it that you think a good relationship looks like?’

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Strategy
Lead generation

How to run an effective customer evidence and case study programme

A case study is proof.

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Strategy

How to find a B2B marketing agency that understands your technology

Craning your neck on the lookout for a B2B content marketing agency that’s right for your business?

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Strategy
HubSpot

What is marketing automation and why do you need it?

A variant on Doc Brown’s Flux Capacitor, marketing automation doesn’t make time travel possible, it makes time.

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Branding
Strategy

The ‘Person in the Mirror’ problem: a.k.a. you are not your customer

Newsflash: the person in the mirror is not your customer. You are not your customer.

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Strategy
HubSpot

What is HubSpot? Read this quick CRM guide

Batman has shark-repellent spray. Marketers have HubSpot. You don't need superpowers if you have the right tool for the job.

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Strategy

How to be a freelance journalist

This post contains advice for anyone considering a career as a freelance journalist. I was a freelancer for five years, writing for Wired,...

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How to do marketing
Strategy

How to run a collaborative change management project

Marketing is the visible tip of the change management iceberg. With every new marketing initiative, engagement or campaign there lies -...