Ben Rees
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Marketing Teams

50 posts

22 August 2025

Focus on quality - lessons from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

6 April 2025

Why company culture is so important in marketing

22 August 2024

What makes a great company culture?

My personal views on what makes a great company culture

13 July 2024

How to conduct customer interviews

7 June 2023

Scaling up marketing

Scaling up marketing

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.

8 June 2013

How To Measure Campaign Success

17 October 2023

Remove meetings to achieve true flow

18 July 2023

Speed

12 July 2023

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

15 June 2023

Strategic marketing - knowing where to place your bets

31 May 2023

B2B marketing help

22 May 2023

Creating a marketing strategy plan

25 April 2022

Beware roles that advertise long hours

2 February 2021

Getting from Green Park to King's Cross

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

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.

6 May 2018

Your Customers Pay Your Salary (not your Employer)

8 April 2018

To learn about the "Buyer Process" try buying something

4 September 2016

Your Primary Job as a Marketing Leader is to Prioritise

12 April 2016

Measuring Customer Experience

7 April 2016

If a Brewery Can Innovate, So Can You

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

5 July 2014

Setting Ambitious Marketing Targets is a Waste of Time

27 June 2014

Process Hawks and Doves

19 April 2014

The Need to Constantly Change in Marketing

8 February 2014

The End of the Marketing Plan

3 January 2014

Dissecting Thought-Leadership

13 October 2013

Working on the Coalface

23 January 2013

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

24 October 2012

Product Marketing and Product Management Roles

9 September 2012

Are you doing marketing or Marketing?