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Make good, strategic, rational decisions about your brand.

The fundamental challenge that we have when applying reason to the subject of brand is that great brand is great emotion. But here’s why you still need the rational, in-depth, analytical approach, to have the right positioning and messaging.

Peter Lyall

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Are you looking for the right employees in all the right places?

The overall oil & gas industry continues to see growth these days, and with that growth comes an increased focus on attracting the best and brightest employees. In order to attract the best, companies need to pay particular attention to their

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4 Steps to Future Proof your Marketing Plan

Sometimes it feels like marketing strategies are outdated as soon as plans are finalised. Marketers have to not only keep up, but stay one foot ahead to strategise long-term, effective marketing plans.

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4 Tips to Give You a Marketing Edge

In order to create the message that reaches the customer, your team needs to have a marketing edge. And that edge is a moving target.

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15 marketing tips you should embrace in 2018

The start of a new year brings new hopes, resolutions and goals for us all, especially in business lives. But often these ideas merely sit on a list, never actually being actioned because we “don’t have time”, we forget about them, or other things

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How to develop your business by linking sales and marketing?

A recent survey by Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce found that almost half (47.5 percent) of its members would like more training in business development. This is not surprising given that sales as the means to maintain and grow businesses.

Jennifer Maclennan

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5 ways to get the best out of your marketing agency

Five ways to get the best out of your marketing agency

Andrew Bradshaw

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How to justify your marketing spend

In a time of tightening budgets, in-house marketing departments are feeling the pressure to justify their spend.

Jennifer Maclennan

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5 ways to identify your perfect customer

If you don’t know who your customers are how do you expect to sell to them? What are their problems? Where do they consume information? We’re compiled a list of five simple ways you can identify your perfect customer.

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Thinking big

In many industries, being the driver behind a brand with strong ideas or an innovative new technology can mean your business ambitions are greater than your marketing budget. Being the biggest fish in the ocean may not be an option, so it’s time to

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