Former client, Ctrl-Shift, is a strategy consultancy focusing on personal data and its use online. They realised that the landscape of personal data availability online has changed hugely in a very short time and despite hysterical outcries about Facebook privacy settings, it is an important area that both brands and consumers should be knowledgable about. [...]








Ben Wightman is a senior PPC specialist with Latitude Group.  We first heard him on the Digital Marketing Podcast – Ben has written a report for Latitude every quarter for the past 2 years about mobile marketing.  Ben kindly skyped an interview with us about the report: How did you end up working in an [...]








Migrating your marketing online and integrating new elements of social media into a traditional brand strategy is not easy.  Today we showcase a client and their challenges and a book and a blog post.  Together they give you the one principle you need to write a B2B online brand strategy. How to get customer community integrated into your [...]








NZ Merino set about an interesting way of recruiting a new marketing ideas person which we blogged in August 2010… And so we hoped to find a strong follow up to that story and were delighted that Lance Wiggs wrote up a talk John Brackenridge did to the BBD CEO Summit.  We were hoping to [...]








Robert Rosenthal posted this in his Facebook Group; How would you address this tricky database marketing challenge? A B2B marketer relies heavily on postal mail to promote their offerings. They use email marketing but have yet to see results strong enough to justify a reduced reliance on the Postal Service. Each purchase secured via postal [...]








We’ve met two companies recently who are retailers and trying to expand their business with new outlets and distribution channels but having some difficulties finding the right places to go to. Here’s some ideas of ways to get over this barrier by appealing to your existing customerbase.  They know you, they know your brand and [...]








Three case studies on how you can improve your pitch to your contact’s boss – work, collaborate and learn together. Brian Carroll wrote a super blog post about this subject and came out with solid suggestions about how to get executive support for your proposal or project. Working with larger organisations means that budgetary control is not [...]








When driving profile for your business you may want to consider groups on Twitter.  We first saw it in use tby a PR agency who had this neat link off their “Team” web page – where there’s a link ‘Team Twitter List – follow everyone with one click‘. A neat way of promoting the whole [...]








This piece is a guest post from Square2Marketing, a Philadelphia-based B2B agency that is committed to helping companies find their niche through reality marketing.  If we all agree that people need to be safe before they make a purchase decision and we agree that most purchase decisions are made emotionally, then it is safe to say compelling stories go [...]








There’s been a profusion of interest in the new(ish) social media site, Pinterest – see my boards . One of the advantages of Pinterest – compared to Facebook you can’t create a page where people find your interest easily, unless you’re already connected to each other.  On Pinterest you can search for Tennis shoes, or Apple accessories [...]