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For smaller, early-stage vendors with propositions that are highly scalable and globally relevant in their nature, a partner channel can seem a natural extension. It’s likely that some success has come from a channel already – either formally or informally. The challenge comes with making it happen, at-scale, on-budget, and…

For vendors in many tech segments, the pandemic has boosted success with accelerated adoption cycles and shortened decision times. For others, it has throttled growth because of supply chain and budget disruption. It’s a similar story for their business clients too. So, recognising the impact of COVID-19 is key –…

Launch campaigns that fail at lift-off can be caused by so many contributing factors – operational, environmental, and financial. But the damage to brands can impact careers and the standing of the marketing function within the business. Getting the campaign model, marketing and messaging is crucial to achieve orbit and…

Seed or pilot funding to prove a new approach, channel or relationship makes business sense. But, this initial intent often far exceeds the available budget. While not exclusive to the marketing business, there’s often pressure on the agency to provide extra-speculative investments to ensure project success – with the promise…

Anyone in the marketing and selling business will always want new business opportunities that are as close as possible to the sale. This is understandable – and why wouldn’t you? Expectations have been heightened in recent years with developments in intent-signalling, progressive profiling, nurturing and precision targeting. But achieving it…

Agencies – in all their forms and types – can be a very protective bunch. Sometimes their territorial and ‘creative protectionist’ instincts can cause interesting dynamics for client relationships. Often with overlapping capabilities, and with an eye on wallet-share, encouraging agencies to work together can sometimes feel like trying mix…

Design types can be a little prickly with their craft at the best of times. Being precious and (sometimes over-) protective goes with being innovative and creative. But going anywhere near the territory of Microsoft Word or Powerpoint should be at your own peril! Requests for drafts of websites, videos,…

Putting a copy draft into circulation can often feel like handing-in your homework or exam paper.  Despite all your research, preparation and considered editing about what/what not say, you’re still very conscious about how well it’s going to be received. Your reviewers are often an array of critics with varying…

Thought leadership campaigns are a deliberately progressive and forward-looking tool – but they need to accommodate those in their delivery and customer channels.  An over-elevated idea, with a complex set of concepts and enablement steps can alienate the key participants and contributors you need to make it happen. At this…

Digital campaigns are so quick to create and mobilise, none more so than search PPL. But with so many programmatic considerations for search terms, audience profiling, reach, duration and versions, it’s easy to overlook important settings such as the spend cap.  The cold, lingering feeling of realising you’ve not applied…

Marketers have many metrics for happiness and sentiment towards their brand or products. But, even with NPS scores, sentiment analysis, and advocacy ratings at hand, many tech marketers are unable to summarise how they are perceived by customers.  This fundamental consideration (albeit sometimes reduced to a gut feel or snapshot)…

The power of the crowd can increase coverage, quality and depth – and with channel partners this can be a really good thing.  But with a poor partner strategy, structure and management it can feel more like an exercise in crowd control.  Check out the meme 'Herding cats’. Does channel…

As marketers, we’re now tracking more journeys, signals, consumption, interaction and exploration than ever before. That brings a HUGE amount of data and analytics to our fingertips.  But this increase in data capture is rarely echoed with a commensurate increase in resources, tools and capabilities required to convert it into…

If you mapped the efficiency of your buyer journeys, how would your business score? Are they intuitive, frictionless and progressively valuable? Do they deliver the right information, through the right channels, in the right form at the right time? Can the buyer control the speed – up or down? The…

The agency + client relationship benefits massively from mutual chemistry and understanding, together with a shared vision. But often the agency is charged with building key points of view for the client – and sometimes these viewpoints are nascent or emerging. It’s at this point that the joint instincts are…