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The recent, often VC-driven "cult of the CEO" suggests that for a company to succeed, the leader must define a clear direction for their...

GDPR was not created to ban cold calling or cold emailing; its purpose is to protect individuals from the EU's data. There is, however, a...

"Efficiency is taught as an unalloyed goal in the business world." Professor Roger R. Martin, writer, strategy advisor & currently #1...

I met with a CMO of a leading law firm a while back and he was describing how his firm's direction was determined by  "Four hundred...

Having recently visited Hangzhou, the city in mainland China home to Alibaba, I was completely taken aback by the application of consumer...

I had the pleasure of attending an event last Thursday in London hosted by a tech company in the marketing technology space.  

The...

Centralised marketing teams are in a challenging position. Their role is to engage with customers, position their offering and pave the...

Research from Forrester has shown that the average consumer reads 11.4 pieces of content before they buy. This is a figure that would...

The law industry has changed a lot in the last 10 years with an increasingly competitive landscape brought about by the introduction of...

Google has (finally!) released a service to check your website’s SEO. This is a huge relief for everyone in B2B marketing as we can now...

As buyers have gained more and more access to information, they’ve begun to make more of their buying decision before reaching out to...

Over the years I’ve been asking myself how bespoke does content need to be? Do we need to create truly personalised 1:1 content? In...

Jason Goodall, CEO of Dimension Data, was recently nominated to lead the new $20B NTT business outside of Japan (which will include...

Cross-selling is a key goal for most professional service firms and especially the law firms I talk to.   Done well, it can generate...

If perception is reality, how do prospects or even clients perceive your business?

There are a number of pieces of research that indicate...

The first 6 cities in the UK to receive the faster 5G network have been named.  London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and...

Open source is an approach to software development that sacrifices a measure of control in order to gain engagement from a wider...

My first job coming out of university was organising conferences about the big business issues of the time, which was mainly the collapse...

CSO Insights completed their first ever buyer preference study earlier this year, it is a 45 minute read and covers a number of areas.

I recently ran a workshop with a leading law firm where the discussion focused on Expert-to-Expert marketing and how they as the subject...

I don't mean to bang on about my first ABM event again....but I am going to because I found it extremely useful. 

Last night was...

Fortunate enough to listen to the anecdotal experience of expert ABM practitioner David Cotterill from Conduent at the B2B Marketing ABM...

ABM is again the hot topic for B2B Marketers in late 2018. Marketing initiatives need to find a home within a wider organisation though....

Customer listening. Insights about the customer, their priorities and challenges is at the heart of account-based marketing, customer...

Being relatively new to the concept of Account-based Marketing, it was insightful to sit through a presentation by Adrian Hardy of BT at...

Last week I was sitting on a train back to London from Liverpool and listening to the Goop podcast. Now before some of you switch off (my...

Keeping front of mind with your most important clients and prospects is an everyday challenge for B2B marketers. For many, a "newsletter"...

During a great morning with the Bridge Agency, The Sales Enablement Experts, Faiz Rehman of Microsoft provided a helpful insight into how...

Anyone can actually do ABM (and most people already do!) because it involves turning your marketing efforts on their heads - less...

My wife runs a small (but successful!) food PR company and after speaking with her the other day about the number of cold sales...

In today’s consensus buying and procurement influenced world, the most important steps of the buying process happen before your customer...

I talk to many professional services subject matter experts and technology salespeople about ways they can use self-written content to...

Marketing departments have a surprisingly wide range of goals and targets. Often these are short-term and tied to measurable digital...

With so much confusion and discussion about ABM, I started thinking about the question of how do you become the next success story....