Ben Rees

Archive

Earlier writing

Posts from 2012 to 2022 on marketing, strategy, leadership, and business - kept here for reference.

21 February 2026

Apple vs. Microsoft - the Importance of Design

Technology / MarTech
21 May 2025

My weekly routine

Leadership
27 October 2024

Everything So Far

Content Strategy
17 October 2023

Remove meetings to achieve true flow

Leadership
18 July 2023

Speed

Leadership
12 July 2023

Have a plan. But double down on what's working

Leadership
30 June 2023

Balance and Flow

Brand & Positioning
21 June 2023

Calculating return on marketing investment (ROMI)

Measurement
15 June 2023

Strategic marketing - knowing where to place your bets

Leadership
31 May 2023

B2B marketing help

Brand & Positioning
22 May 2023

Creating a marketing strategy plan

core
25 April 2022

Beware roles that advertise long hours

core
2 February 2021

Getting from Green Park to King's Cross

Leadership
13 September 2020

Working from Home

core
7 September 2020

How to Present to an Exec or Board

core
12 August 2020

Join a Scaleup to Scale Your Career

core
11 April 2020

External Marketing during COVID-19

core
2 October 2019

There are two times when you don't need to worry about Customer Success. And neither apply to you

core
20 September 2019

Finding Balance in Marketing Strategy

core
19 August 2019

Why HR is the Most Important Department in your Business

Brand & Positioning
2 January 2019

Review: "Subscribed"​ by Tien Tzuo

Brand & Positioning
19 July 2018

Building a MarTech Stack at a Small Organisation

Content Strategy
16 June 2018

Measuring Outbound vs. "Always-on" Marketing Performance

Content Strategy
7 May 2018

Brand Amplifiers

Brand & Positioning
6 May 2018

Your Customers Pay Your Salary (not your Employer)

core
8 April 2018

To learn about the "Buyer Process" try buying something

Brand & Positioning
26 September 2017

You're applying Marketing Theory, But You Don't Even Know It

core
13 September 2016

There are Three Types of Marketing – Inbound, Outbound and… Plain Rude

Beyond Inbound
4 September 2016

Your Primary Job as a Marketing Leader is to Prioritise

Beyond Inbound
1 May 2016

Anatomy of a Great Ad

core
20 April 2016

Sentiment Analysis of Twitter for You and Your Competitors - Part 1

core
16 April 2016

Write Content That People Actually Want to Read

Content Strategy
12 April 2016

Measuring Customer Experience

core
7 April 2016

If a Brewery Can Innovate, So Can You

Brand & Positioning
30 March 2016

Your People Are Your Customer Experience

Brand & Positioning
18 March 2016

People. Customers. Action.

core
13 July 2015

Why You Can’t Pivot as Quickly as You’d Like

core
17 May 2015

Better to be in the Arena Fighting…

core
10 May 2015

The Difference Between Management and Leadership

core
12 April 2015

The Value of Completely Arbitrary and Artificial Constraints

core
28 March 2015

Great Customer Service - Detail, Memory and Management

core
28 February 2015

Why Doing Nothing Inevitably Leads to Failure

core
15 February 2015

Why Complex Decisions Inevitably Take Weeks

core
21 September 2014

How Short Term Data Driven Decisions can be Dangerous in the Long Term

core
13 August 2014

Guerilla Marketing for Startups - An Example

Brand & Positioning
4 August 2014

Why Measuring Marketing ROI is Like Trying to Measure Employee ROI - Impossible!

Beyond Inbound
5 July 2014

Setting Ambitious Marketing Targets is a Waste of Time

core
27 June 2014

Process Hawks and Doves

core
18 May 2014

Getting Stuff Done as a Product Marketing Manager

core
19 April 2014

The Need to Constantly Change in Marketing

Brand & Positioning
2 March 2014

Increase Your Net Promoter Score to Decrease Marketing Spend

core
8 February 2014

The End of the Marketing Plan

core
1 February 2014

Keeping an Eye on The Competition

Brand & Positioning
18 January 2014

Xbox One vs. PS4 - How Marketing can Drive Development

core
3 January 2014

Dissecting Thought-Leadership

Content Strategy
12 November 2013

My 10 Biggest Marketing Screw-ups of 2013

Leadership
3 November 2013

Market Sizing - Old vs. New Markets

Beyond Inbound
13 October 2013

Working on the Coalface

core
29 September 2013

My Product is Great. Why Do I Need a Marketing Department?

core
22 September 2013

Waiting for Google

core
14 September 2013

What I Should Be Doing as a Marketer. But Won’t Be

core
8 September 2013

Measuring Offline to Online Marketing Attribution

core
16 July 2013

When Marketing Isn’t Really Marketing - Google Analytics Multi-Channel Funnels

core
21 June 2013

SaaS Product Management, Lovefilm and Getting Stale

Brand & Positioning
19 May 2013

Value and Predictable Revenue Improvements

core
28 April 2013

Competition, Disruptive Innovation and Total Recall

core
24 April 2013

Why Product Managers Often Aren’t Great at Marketing

Brand & Positioning
20 April 2013

Five Tips for Implementing Marketing Analytics

core
9 February 2013

Book Review: Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout

Beyond Inbound
23 January 2013

Is it the Content or the Author that Matters for a Blog?

Content Strategy
7 January 2013

New Year, New Markets, New Products

core
15 December 2012

Product Management and iTunes 11

Brand & Positioning
7 December 2012

Favourite marketing posts of 2012

core
4 November 2012

Lean Personas - How to Make Personas More Useful

core
24 October 2012

Product Marketing and Product Management Roles

core
9 September 2012

Are you doing marketing or Marketing?

core
5 September 2012

Marketing and Data Testing

core