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My name is Matt, and I am a marketing nerd; a digital marketer by trade, this is my marketing blog. The question you're asking yourself is "Does the internet really need another marketing blog?" The answer is a very clear "no", but I went ahead and did it anyway. Have a read of my latest posts below...
Content is king! Brands are now publishers! Google loves content! If you read as many marketing blogs as I do, these statements pretty much sum up every article on the topic of content marketing. To build links, brands must publish “great content”. Unfortunately, because of this self-perpetuating advice, too many businesses and websites [...]
In marketing, if you get your targeting right, your communications/media plan should fall in to place beautifully. Here is a personal anecdote that suggests deliveroo aren’t quite getting that quite right. Right message, right person…wrong time I love the idea of deliveroo; real restaurant food delivered to your door. The only [...]
Marketers and PR folk have long been obsessed with Millennials, those born in the eighties and nineties as supposedly the first generation to adapt to the ‘new age’. However as this market starts to edge into their mid-thirties, there is a new, younger generation paving their way into the world. They have grown up completely immersed [...]
We all like to think we are doing an amazing job, and it is a brave marketer who approaches performance and analysis with an honest and open mind. They are also usually the most successful. Here are five truths that can be applied to every business’ marketing, no matter how big or small their budget. […]
As someone who has hired new team members across a number of growing businesses, I have seen a lot of marketing CVs in my time. Some of them good and many of them not so good. I have previously given advice on starting a career in marketing, and listed questions to ask hiring your first […]
The objective of any business is to sell, that is never in question. But how best to go about doing it in a way that not just maximises first basket revenue, but also repeat sales? By focusing on acquiring customers, not sales. This is more than a subtle shift in tactics, it is a fundamentally different strategy that […]
Thanks to the likes of Google and open source providers such as WordPress, we are increasingly becoming trained to expect a lot for very little, or even for nothing at all. The freemium model has been around for years, but there has been a dramatic shift towards this becoming the expected norm. Online services and […]
I haven’t bought anything from JD Sports for well over 5 years, but I am on their mailing list. I tend to ignore their emails, but their latest one got my attention for all the wrong reasons. The problem was not with them emailing me, the design, the quality of the copy or the relevancy. […]
An interesting piece of research passed by my desk recently which claimed 10 – 20% of my industry’s customers don’t know who their supplier is. They are so disconnected from their supplier that they don’t care, and that means they have no brand recall. This is exactly the same for me with my gas supplier – […]
It is very strange to say that I am reaching my tenth anniversary working in marketing. The time has flown by and it doesn’t seem so long ago I was starting my first marketing job, but looking back so much has changed in this time, for both me and the industry. On a personal level […]
There is a line in the Spielberg/ Hanks/ Di Caprio film “Catch me if you can”, delivered by Christopher Walken that sums up how a lot of people approach marketing for me: “Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned, but the second mouse, he struggled […]
I don’t get a lot of time to read other marketing blogs, but there are a handful I’ll check back on now and then, one of those being Jim’s Marketing Blog. A recent post (here) was simply a quote of his own (no more, no less): “Teaching people the best way to market organically with […]