Warren Knight
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Here’s the most important thing digital leaders get right
Did you know Warren Knight, the author of this piece, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on ‘What’s next for the digital-first mindset?’ here. Before we go any further, I’ve said this before, but it’s the single most important thing I want you to understand, so I’m going to keep saying it. Total successful digital […] → Read More
What beekeeping taught me about digital leadership
Did you know Warren Knight, the author of this piece, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on ‘What’s next for the digital-first mindset?’ here. What do bees have in common with teams in the digital workplace? When I’m talking to leaders in business, it’s often helpful to use analogies to help them […] → Read More
How-To Attract Online Visitors and Generate New Leads
If blogging is part of your digital marketing strategy (and if it’s not, why not?) you’ll know how time consuming it can be. How can you know if the time you invest in sharing your knowledge and expertise via your blog is paying off? I’ve been blogging for 10 years and written over 1,000 blogs and won numerous awards, and it’s a vital part of my content marketing. So I found this survey of… → Read More
How To Build a Business Website in 2019
Are you happy with your website? It is a very simple question, but the answer will be a lot more…… → Read More
Digital Sales Strategy in a Customer Centric World
In theory, you can sell anything to anyone. But naturally it’s not as simple as that. Customers are well aware these days that they can get a similar (or in the case of products, perhaps identical) offer elsewhere. So it is often the sales experience which will differentiate you from your competitors and get you the sales – and that is shaped by the way you sell. Understanding your customers’… → Read More
The Ultimate Facebook Playbook For Beginners
Did you know that on average, people access Facebook an average 8 times per day? The power of Facebook is clear. It is “The Social Network”. Facebook has the largest social network usage, and eve… → Read More
Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Business?
Artificial Intelligence (or AI) remains a much misunderstood technology, and many business leaders (perhaps you among them?) are either wary of it, or simply don’t yet see how it applies to their b… → Read More
The Ultimate Guide to Google SERPs Optimisation
As I revealed in my very first blog this year, thinking digital first is your number one priority for your marketing. The good news is that there are some great tools out there to help you. Understan… → Read More
The Retailer’s Playbook To Instagram Success
Did you know that 50% of Instagram users follow at least one business? A further 60% of users say they have learned about a product/service whilst using the platform. When looking at the popular soci… → Read More
How To Build a Partnership Program For Long-Term Success
Marketing is becoming ever more personalised, and for long-term success, your business needs to keep up with the trend. You need to be building relationships, and doing that means being where your cu… → Read More
The Content Marketing Playbook For SMEs
Did you know that websites with a blog tend to have 434% more indexed pages? It’s true that 47% of consumers read between 3-5 pieces of blog content before making a purchasing decision. After readi… → Read More
10 Simple and Effective Business Innovation Success Tips
Innovation is important at all stages of business development, and vital for wider economic growth. Today’s digital world offers growing opportunities for experimenting with new development framewo… → Read More
How to Perfect Your Digital Marketing Campaign
Technology dominates every part of our lives, and it is impossible to imagine our society without it. This means it is imperative that we, as entrepreneurs, fully grasp this digital mindset to garner… → Read More
How to Run a Successful Facebook Retargeting Campaign
When making a purchase I like to explore the market to ensure I am getting a good deal that will deliver my expectations from a brand that I can trust and build a relationship with. This is what your… → Read More
Stunning Instagram Story Highlights in Just 5 Minutes
Instagram has recently added a new feature which lets you save your story highlights to your profile. Meaning your favorite moments can be viewed indefinitely, without the 24-hour time constraint. No… → Read More
Social Media Planning: How To Create A Social Media Plan In Under 30 Minutes
Creating content for your social media platforms can be time consuming enough, so why spend more than you need on planning how to use it? It is important to have a clear idea of how and when you want… → Read More
Top 10 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools
Juggling many social media accounts across a multitude of platforms can start to seem like an impossible task. In order to stay active, engaged and relevant with your audience along with still making… → Read More
Google’s Machine Learning (AI) Crash Course
Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning, as it’s better known as, is something that has garnered my interest over recent years. I even used the technology to design a company logo for a side hu… → Read More
Why Is Email The Most Effective Digital Marketing Technique?
Did you know email marketing is 40x more effective than Facebook marketing, and you get 6x more engagement that with Twitter? Working out where to focus your digital marketing can feel like searching… → Read More
How To Fix A Broken Digital Marketing Strategy
There have been many times in my career where I have had to sit down with my team, and really analyse our digital marketing strategy because it is just not working like it should or like it did in th… → Read More