Insights

Practical thinking about the marketing problems businesses are dealing with now.

The Insights library

Working out what your marketing is actually doing

ROAS is improving. CPA is falling. So why is the business struggling to justify its marketing spend?

Marketing reports can look healthy while the business result doesn't move. Platform performance is evidence, not the objective.

Your marketing channels are all being optimised. But who’s optimising the marketing system?

Every channel can be well run and the marketing can still underperform. Someone has to look across all of it.

We’re getting more marketing reports than ever. So why is it still hard to know what’s working?

Reporting what happened is the easy part. Knowing why, and what to do about it, is the job.

Deciding what to do next

Where does the next stage of growth come from when what you’re doing now stops scaling?

Capturing demand and creating demand are different jobs. Which one does the business need next?

Search and social got us this far. How do we know when it’s time to do something else?

There is no point at which a business suddenly graduates from search and social. There are signals worth watching.

We’ve been doing Google and Facebook for years. What else is actually available?

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.

Do we actually need another marketing supplier, or do we need to work out what the problem is first?

A solution is not the same thing as a diagnosis. Problem first. Evidence second. Technology third.

How customers find you now

Are your customers still finding you the way they used to?

Search still matters. It is no longer the only place customers investigate what to buy and who to trust.

When someone uses AI to research a business like yours, what are they being told?

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?

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