There was a once a time when global brands selected their marketing and advertising departments on their creative ability and trained them in the philosophy of business.  The most successful staff members were the ones with the most unique ideas which would push their brand to success. This last sentence is still true these days, [...]








How big does your company need to be before you use marketing professionals? For brands who are growing  and becoming profitable there comes a time when you choose to professionalise your marketing.  Many businesses decide at this point that they have two choices: to hire a staffer or to buy in expertise from an agency. [...]








An introduction is the very best way of getting a meeting or speaking to a new business prospect company.  Thanks to Alex Krupp I checked out a new service called Go Hachi. It uses your existing connections on social media sites, to suggest the best person to connect you to your target. Read our slide [...]








There are times when your site is offline, being updated or upgraded.  A holding page helps out by telling visitors that you’re temporarily away and when to expect access to your company website again. There are good an bad examples – here’s  a good one. One question, what does Csquared actually do? Challenge: Can you [...]








Sometimes it’s nice to be on the receiving end of some in-bound agency marketing.  There’s a nice branding agency we have been following based in Birmingham, UK.  They sent us a little slide deck. It had some background slides about the company and some case studies of client work.  All very nicely presented. BUT There [...]








We love SEOMoz the website from the masters of SEO. They’ve got an awesome Pro SEO conference running in Boston MA during May 16-17th on “Deep Dive” for SEO. We badly want to be there – but are not able to attend. Is there anyone who’s going and would consider allowing us to subsidize their [...]








A guest post by Stephen Greensted. Cynicism, Duplicity and Institutional Incompetence In my last post, I looked at thirty reasons for advertising agencies not winning an account when they thought they were ahead. I could easily have added another seventy reasons. But it’s not always the agency’s fault. Clients are just as likely to mess up [...]








We don’t often promote events but this one looks like a goodie – Demand Generation is a skill that many business find hard to translate from offline to online. And since many marketing activities are now online – this needs to be learned and applied to your business, mine and our clients’. // A BrightTALK [...]








How much do marketers and their agencies need to know about technology. Code is now on a par with content. Allison Mooney, head of trends and Insights, Marketing Google Ben Malbon, Director of Strategy, Creative Lab Google Matt Galligan, SimpleGeo Rob Rasmussen, Tribal DDB Rick Webb, The Barbarian Group #agileagency How much do marketers and [...]








Here at Creative Agency towers, we are usually coy about sharing information about our clients.  But today one blogged a detailed update about the work we’re doing to help improve their website design, CRM and usability. The client is Feedblitz.com – an RSS to email service provider.  A very neat tool that enables marketing newsletters [...]