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05 October, 2020

Tertiary education: time to start thinking like a company

Covid is proving to be both a major threat and a major opportunity in tertiary education, but it seems to me no one is …

01 October, 2020

Messaging, and how to get it wrong

I think we can all agree (politics aside) that navigating the messaging around Covid-19 was never going to be easy. …

29 September, 2020

Memories of Kiwi farmers trading their way out of trouble

The UK has always had a successful agri sector – but the challenges right now are without precedent, from pandemic …

18 September, 2020

Making the unconscious conscious

In my last blog I touched on the opportunistic strategy of colliding activism and behavioural change marketing to help …

27 August, 2020

Education brands – how to survive harsh times

Today’s education providers have a real opportunity to stand out by swiftly reconsidering their customer experience.

10 August, 2020

Marketers need a 5-year plan

As we have said recently, a lot of well-qualified economists and commentators suggest we’re quite likely facing a ‘W’ …

03 August, 2020

Marketing in 2020: how to survive, adapt and thrive

As a marketer preparing for the next 12 months it would be easy to feel overwhelmed or uncertain, even fearful. Here …

28 July, 2020

How ‘movements’ create an environment of change

It starts with an injustice, which manifests into anger and frustration. It then turns into a movement, which is …

23 July, 2020

100% virtual should be the new normal

The pandemic is rewriting the rules of customer experience. But what do Covid’s sudden seismic shifts mean for …

07 July, 2020

Recovery marketing – the big W

Of all the predictions for the shape of the economy as we recover, most analysts say a ‘W’ is the most likely and the …

22 June, 2020

Pivot – the most overused word of the last 13 weeks?

I’ve lost count of the amount of times the word ‘pivot’ has been used in Zoom and Teams meetings over the last 13 …

16 June, 2020

Getting to know the human behind the client

I lead my first ‘lockdown’ pitch over Microsoft Teams last month for a global tech company and I had huge reservations …