
3 June 2025
Fractional vs. Full-Time CMO: What’s Best for Growing Businesses?
Why Choosing the Right Marketing Leadership Matters For ambitious small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), selecting the right kind of marketing leadership is a pivotal decision that can influence the trajectory of the entire business. As organisations begin to grow, their marketing needs evolve from simple promotional tactics to more complex strategic initiatives. These include defining…

30 May 2025
Why More SMEs Are Turning to Fractional Chief Marketing Officers
The Unique Challenge Faced SMEs Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often face the unique challenge of needing top-tier marketing leadership without the financial capacity to recruit full-time C-suite talent. With increasing competition across digital and traditional channels, having the right strategic direction in marketing can be the difference between steady growth and stagnation. For many…

26 January 2024
Why is There an 80% Failure Rate for New Start-ups?
It is well documented that the success rate for a new start-up business is not great. Out of 10 businesses who launch this year, only 2 of them will still be trading three years from now. What’s more is that only 1 of those 2 businesses will successfully manage to have a longer-term future! So…

14 November 2023
The Franchise Marketing Dilemma
Currently there are around 48,000 franchise businesses in the UK , a number which has doubled in the last 25 years, across 900 franchise brands that now employ over 621,000 people (an increase of 70% in last 10 years). Franchising is big business. For good reason too. Banks prefer to lend money to franchises as…

8 April 2020
Why Differentiation in Marketing is More Important Than Ever!
Differentiation has always been pivotal to creating successful marketing strategies. If you refer back to any of our previous blogs, whether the subject is around positioning, customer behaviour, USPs or competition, differentiation always plays a crucial role. However, since we wrote our last blog article a few weeks ago, it feels as if the world has been turned upside down,…

28 January 2020
How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Digital Marketing
Artificial Intelligence is gradually becoming an important part of our everyday lives. We’ve grown accustomed to talking to Alexa, Siri, Cortana or any other AI-powered digital assistant – we rely on them when we search for information and we trust them when we’re making choices. Still, the way AI is transforming digital marketing transcends the…