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 [...]








Recently I’ve become very conscious of images as part of the brand mix online and offline.  There are brands who create visual icons – take a look at my ‘Marmite’ Pinterest board created for a client celebrating the fact that New Zealand has run out of Marmite(!)- true story. And so I think we’ve changed [...]








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 [...]








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 [...]








The local business incubator here in Auckland is called The Icehouse.  It’s an impressive place buzzing with activity. Creative Agency Secrets was asked to prove its salt by giving some free consulting to a new organisation, DirtyMan.co.nz Perversely, it is all about keeping men clean! Avoiding costly product launches The team is a start-up and [...]








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 [...]








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 [...]








Working a trade show using twitter is a great way to find new followers and to publicise your business intentions.  You may even find new customers, shortcut your researches and build new supplier relationships. Here are our top 5 tips Write a blog in advance to say that you’re going and what you’re looking for [...]








Is it possible that a creative agency can build a pipeline of new business without having to respond to RFPs as a means of finding new leads? Two articles in my RSS feed today struck me today as being relevant to this topic The first is a slide deck from the excellent Courtney Pemberton and [...]








Reading John McTigue’s lovely rant about How to shop for inbound marketing services made us smile.  He is a client side marketer.  He says all the catch phrases we spout “partnership” and “lasting relationship”.  But read carefully and agencies cna learn how best to present themselves to a new client. He writes The companies and [...]