Insights
Practical thinking about the marketing problems businesses are dealing with now.
The Insights library
Working out what your marketing is actually doing
Marketing reports can look healthy while the business result doesn't move. Platform performance is evidence, not the objective.
Every channel can be well run and the marketing can still underperform. Someone has to look across all of it.
Reporting what happened is the easy part. Knowing why, and what to do about it, is the job.
Deciding what to do next
Capturing demand and creating demand are different jobs. Which one does the business need next?
There is no point at which a business suddenly graduates from search and social. There are signals worth watching.
A plain-language tour of what sits beyond search and social, and why the existence of a channel is not a reason to spend money on it.
A solution is not the same thing as a diagnosis. Problem first. Evidence second. Technology third.
How customers find you now
Search still matters. It is no longer the only place customers investigate what to buy and who to trust.
Being known by an AI system is not the same as being represented properly. And it only matters if your customers are using it.
Recognise any of these?
You don't need a brief or an agency review to start a conversation. Tell us what's happening and we'll tell you if we can help.