Year: 2019
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6 free but difficult things that’ll make your marketing better
Harendra Kapur | August 19th, 2019
The moves that’ll make your marketing great won’t cost you a dime. They’re just difficult.
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Embracing ambiguity: creative confidence in disguise
Doug Kessler | August 12th, 2019
This started out as an apology. I wanted to say sorry to the many clients and colleagues I’ve annoyed over the years because of my indecisiveness. I do sympathize. I know it pisses you off….
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The glory of low-tech: the first Velocity Letterpress Day
Doug Kessler | August 7th, 2019
What happens when you let a bunch of digital designers loose on an old Stephenson Blake printing press and a bunch of wood type?
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Ten ways to sell a great idea
Emma Langley | August 1st, 2019
See 10 ways to package up your content marketing ideas so you can maximise your chances of stakeholder buy-in.
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Let’s steal from The Simpsons
David Bard | July 23rd, 2019
The golden years of The Simpsons entirely re-wrote what a TV show could be. In the latest of our ‘Let’s Steal From’ series, we dig into how they do it.
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B2B marketers: take back your website!
Doug Kessler | July 8th, 2019
Too many B2B marketing teams are locked out of their websites. This really shouldn’t still be happening.
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Tone of Voice: The B2B budget multiplier
Doug Kessler | June 28th, 2019
This is about the most powerful but least understood force in B2B marketing. It’s about untapped potential that every brand can tap… but very few do. And it’s far from a secret. We’ve all seen…
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Let’s steal from… Seventeenth Century Explorers
Luke Gain | June 24th, 2019
Something weird happened to communications in Early Modern England.
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When bad is good: in defense of the negative
Andrew London | June 3rd, 2019
There’s a common urge to avoid saying anything negative in marketing. Here’s why that’s a really, really bad impulse to follow.
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Buzzwords are blankets.
Harendra Kapur | May 28th, 2019
The first time we argued about the term ‘digital transformation’ was three, maybe four years ago. We were positioning a business and at the point where we were trying to describe the change in…
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Vertical marketing strategy in B2B: when, why, how?
Doug Kessler | May 20th, 2019
Vertical content often out-performs generic, horizontal content—by a lot. Here’s what you need to know.
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B2B documentaries: the next big thing
Doug Kessler | May 13th, 2019
This is about a woefully under-used tactic in B2B content marketing. But it’s also a metaphor for all of B2B marketing, and what’s wrong with it, and what could be so, so right with it….