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76 posts

2 February 2023

The Marketing Flywheel

29 December 2022

The marketing flywheel - an alternative to the marketing funnel

14 July 2022

How to make decisions

20 December 2021

Why ROI calculators aren't enough

25 April 2021

Scaling from SMBs to the Enterprise - a 10-Point Plan

A 10-point checklist for moving a B2B business from selling to SMBs to selling to the enterprise, drawn from five years doing it at Redgate.

7 April 2021

How We Grew Marketing Sourced Pipeline by 20% in One Quarter

Why judging marketing by what happened this quarter is the wrong lens, and how Redgate grew marketing-sourced pipeline 20% anyway.

21 February 2021

How Collaboration Can Grow Revenue

14 June 2020

Under-promise, Over-deliver for product-led growth

23 September 2019

Focus on Marketing Effectiveness to Scale Up

For a scaling business, chasing efficiency is the wrong goal. Binet and Field's case for effectiveness over ROI optimisation.

22 February 2019

Five Myths About The Marketing Revenue Engine

Five widely-held beliefs about measuring marketing performance that didn't survive contact with the real world at Redgate.

15 March 2016

Human Beings are Holding Back Machine Learning

Machine learning tools have been accessible for decades. The real shortage has always been people who know how to use them properly.

8 June 2013

How To Measure Campaign Success

22 May 2023

Creating a marketing strategy plan

25 April 2022

Beware roles that advertise long hours

13 September 2020

Working from Home

7 September 2020

How to Present to an Exec or Board

12 August 2020

Join a Scaleup to Scale Your Career

Career growth depends less on talent than on the size and growth rate of the company you work for. Scaleups offer the best odds.

11 April 2020

External Marketing during COVID-19

2 October 2019

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

20 September 2019

Finding Balance in Marketing Strategy

19 August 2019

Why HR is the Most Important Department in your Business

Not sales, not marketing, not engineering. The department with the broadest impact on a company's success is HR, done properly.

19 July 2018

Building a MarTech Stack at a Small Organisation

16 June 2018

Measuring Outbound vs. "Always-on" Marketing Performance

7 May 2018

Brand Amplifiers

6 May 2018

Your Customers Pay Your Salary (not your Employer)

8 April 2018

To learn about the "Buyer Process" try buying something

26 September 2017

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

13 September 2016

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

4 September 2016

Your Primary Job as a Marketing Leader is to Prioritise

1 May 2016

Anatomy of a Great Ad

20 April 2016

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

16 April 2016

Write Content That People Actually Want to Read

12 April 2016

Measuring Customer Experience

7 April 2016

If a Brewery Can Innovate, So Can You

30 March 2016

Your People Are Your Customer Experience

18 March 2016

People. Customers. Action.

13 July 2015

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

17 May 2015

Better to be in the Arena Fighting…

10 May 2015

The Difference Between Management and Leadership

12 April 2015

The Value of Completely Arbitrary and Artificial Constraints

28 March 2015

Great Customer Service - Detail, Memory and Management

28 February 2015

Why Doing Nothing Inevitably Leads to Failure

15 February 2015

Why Complex Decisions Inevitably Take Weeks

21 September 2014

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

13 August 2014

Guerilla Marketing for Startups - An Example

4 August 2014

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

5 July 2014

Setting Ambitious Marketing Targets is a Waste of Time

27 June 2014

Process Hawks and Doves

18 May 2014

Getting Stuff Done as a Product Marketing Manager

19 April 2014

The Need to Constantly Change in Marketing

2 March 2014

Increase Your Net Promoter Score to Decrease Marketing Spend

8 February 2014

The End of the Marketing Plan

1 February 2014

Keeping an Eye on The Competition

18 January 2014

Xbox One vs. PS4 - How Marketing can Drive Development

3 January 2014

Dissecting Thought-Leadership

3 November 2013

Market Sizing - Old vs. New Markets

13 October 2013

Working on the Coalface

29 September 2013

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

22 September 2013

Waiting for Google

14 September 2013

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

8 September 2013

Measuring Offline to Online Marketing Attribution

16 July 2013

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

21 June 2013

SaaS Product Management, Lovefilm and Getting Stale

19 May 2013

Value and Predictable Revenue Improvements

28 April 2013

Competition, Disruptive Innovation and Total Recall

24 April 2013

Why Product Managers Often Aren’t Great at Marketing

20 April 2013

Five Tips for Implementing Marketing Analytics

9 February 2013

Book Review: Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout

23 January 2013

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

7 January 2013

New Year, New Markets, New Products

15 December 2012

Product Management and iTunes 11

7 December 2012

Favourite marketing posts of 2012

4 November 2012

Lean Personas - How to Make Personas More Useful

24 October 2012

Product Marketing and Product Management Roles

9 September 2012

Are you doing marketing or Marketing?

5 September 2012

Marketing and Data Testing