by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, First Flow Foundation - The Right Work, Fourth Flow Foundation - Maintain Momentum, Marketing Skills
< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes “How do you ensure you recruit the right candidates for your business, make your company attractive to work in and encourage people to stay? In our December roundtable we talked about three key bits of thinking to take...
by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Flow Foundations, Marketing Capability, Marketing Skills, Marketing Team
< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes “Whatever your size of business, recruiting and resourcing can be a tricky. What makes for a brilliant marketing team? What factors do you need to consider? In our roundtable this month we discussed the topic through...
by Rachael Wheatley | Budget Shape, Marketing Capability, Marketing Strategy, Mindful marketing measurement, Third Flow Foundation - Baseline Rhythm
< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 5 Minutes Having a good relationship with finance is important. Getting them on-board and enthusiastically supporting your strategy and plan is often a key piece to get right. But all too often, finance think that marketing is...
by Bryony Thomas | About the book, Flow Foundations, Marketing Strategy
< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 8 Minutes A new cohort has just started our 12-month marketing leadership programme. The first month focuses on the Flow Foundations (see Chapter 2, Watertight Marketing – 2nd Ed.). Every coaching session I had with our...
by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Flow Foundations, Fourth Flow Foundation - Maintain Momentum, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team
< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes “Agreeing vision, values, goals and milestones is a shared responsibility across the leadership team. Marketing’s role is to turn these into something that engages and inspires employees, suppliers, clients and prospects...
by Bryony Thomas | Commercial Karma, Fourth Flow Foundation - Maintain Momentum, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team
< Back to the Blog z Prefer to listen than to read? This post is also available over on our PodBlog Reading Time: 5 Minutes When I ask the leadership team of a growing business about their vision for the next 3-5 years, I will almost always be given a revenue...
by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Flow Foundations, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team
< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes Effective marketing is as much a matter of organisational context as it is individual competence. For marketing to work, two key ingredients are: good marketers and a well-organised, productive marketing team. However,...
by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Flow Foundations, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team, Touchpoint Leaks
< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes As any in-house marketer will tell you, there will come a time when you might need to use external specialists. There are all sorts of factors involved in deciding what to keep in-house and what might need outsourcing. It...
by Bryony Thomas | Flow Foundations, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team
< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 5 Minutes My daughter and I have been singing the Strictly Come Dancing theme tune to each other with excitement all week. We’ve watched it together since she was born and we’re looking forward to this year’s...
by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Flow Foundations, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team, Touchpoint Leaks
< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 12 Minutes For any marketing role I’ve been in and with any marketer I talk to, metrics and measuring marketing success is a key issue. We’re often asked about the number of leads we’re going to generate or how many people we’ll get...