5 Must-Do New Year’s Resolutions

5 Must-Do New Year’s Resolutions

New Year, New You 💫 It’s January, which means only one thing.   It’s resolution time.   « Insert lighthearted anecdote about how I always try really hard at resolutions but end up giving up after 6 weeks »   In some ways the 1st of January is just any...
4 Social Media Ideas to Try Today 🤳

4 Social Media Ideas to Try Today 🤳

Try these social content ideas out for size 🤳     Do you want to know the biggest secret of innovation?   There’s nothing new under the sun.   When you realise that even the most creative and novel ideas can be linked to a few sources of...
Why your marketing isn’t working 🤔

Why your marketing isn’t working 🤔

    Promotion alone won’t cut it 👀     In 2010 I studies for a diploma in marketing.   Every Tuesday and Thursday I drove to Stoke-on-Trent in my 1986 Nissan Micra for evening classes with the Charted Institute of Marketing.   I’m feeling...
🤫 Confessions of a data-driven agency

🤫 Confessions of a data-driven agency

  Data take the wheel? 💥🚗     This is the riskiest newsletter I’ve ever sent you.   It has a high chance of being misunderstood, but I can’t keep it in anymore:   We are not data-driven. Our decisions aren’t data-driven, our processes aren’t...
📩 Audience vs Community

📩 Audience vs Community

   Audience 🆚 Community Most brands think they have a community.   At least, their leaders or marketing directors do.   I hate to be a bearer of bad news but often it’s not true.   They’re mistaking a community for an audience.   Both are a...