PESTEL: A Powerful Framework Restored for the Modern Workplace

PESTEL: A Powerful Framework Restored for the Modern Workplace How to make PESTEL analysis dynamic, actionable, and fit for purpose using modern tools and AI Marketing Strategy | Go-To-Market | Organisational Intelligence Guest Blog from Lee Sellen. Throughout all foundational marketing education, the PESTEL analysis is presented as a vital tool for market validation

PESTEL: A Powerful Framework Restored for the Modern Workplace2026-06-29T11:28:32+00:00

How Marketers Can Use FactCheck.org

How Marketers Can Use FactCheck.org A practical guide to verifying claims, statistics and online information. In an age where misinformation can spread faster than a viral TikTok trend, marketers need reliable sources to verify claims before sharing them. One useful tool is FactCheck.org, a non-profit fact-checking organisation run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at

How Marketers Can Use FactCheck.org2026-06-12T14:04:28+00:00

Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO): Turning More Visitors into Customers

Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO): Turning More Visitors into Customers Why Getting More Traffic Isn't Always the Answer One of the most common mistakes in marketing is assuming that the solution to every problem is more traffic. Website sales are down? Buy more advertising. Lead generation is struggling? Increase the PPC budget. Not enough enquiries? Publish

Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO): Turning More Visitors into Customers2026-06-05T15:14:14+00:00

Quiet Luxury: The Marketing Strategy of Saying Everything by Saying Very Little

Quiet Luxury The Marketing Strategy of Saying Everything by Saying Very Little There was a time when luxury marketing shouted. Big logos. Gold trim. Monograms large enough to be seen from space. If someone bought something expensive, the assumption was that they wanted everyone else to know about it too. But over the last decade,

Quiet Luxury: The Marketing Strategy of Saying Everything by Saying Very Little2026-05-26T15:01:59+00:00

Cult of Personality: When Brands, Politics, and Business Stop Being About the Product

Cult of Personality When Brands, Politics, and Business Stop Being About the Product There is something strangely powerful about people who become bigger than the thing they actually represent. Sometimes it is a politician. Sometimes it is a business leader. Sometimes it is a celebrity entrepreneur selling electric cars, turtlenecks, trainers, protein powder, or the

Cult of Personality: When Brands, Politics, and Business Stop Being About the Product2026-05-18T12:56:07+00:00

From LEGO to Peloton: How Communities Turn Customers into Marketers

From LEGO to Peloton: How Communities Turn Customers into Marketers What Glossier, BrewDog, and Gymshark Teach Us About Building Brands People Actually Belong To There is a quiet shift happening in marketing - and it is not about channels, algorithms, or even budgets. It is about people. Not audiences. Not segments. Not “users”. Communities. The

From LEGO to Peloton: How Communities Turn Customers into Marketers2026-04-23T07:53:39+00:00

The Neil Patel Playbook: What Marketers Can Learn from a Content Machine

The Neil Patel Playbook: What Marketers Can Learn from a Content Machine How Neil Patel Built Ubersuggest, Mastered SEO, and Turned Content into a Scalable Growth Engine There are marketers who talk about marketing, and then there are marketers who build entire ecosystems around it. Neil Patel sits firmly in the latter category. If you’ve

The Neil Patel Playbook: What Marketers Can Learn from a Content Machine2026-04-21T14:33:49+00:00

From Barbie to Netflix: What Entertainment Marketing Teaches Us That Nike and Apple Can’t

From Barbie to Netflix: What Entertainment Marketing Teaches Us That Nike and Apple Can’t How Marvel, Taylor Swift, and Disney Turn Audiences into Fanatics - and Why Traditional Brands Struggle to Keep Up There is a moment, somewhere between queuing for a midnight film release and arguing online about whether the ending “ruined everything”, where

From Barbie to Netflix: What Entertainment Marketing Teaches Us That Nike and Apple Can’t2026-04-20T09:21:41+00:00

Guerrilla Marketing: How brands like IKEA, The Blair Witch Project, and Coca-Cola turned unconventional ideas into unforgettable marketing moments

Guerrilla Marketing: When Creativity Outperforms Budget How brands like IKEA, The Blair Witch Project, and Coca-Cola turned unconventional ideas into unforgettable marketing moments There is a moment in every marketing meeting where someone suggests an idea that feels slightly uncomfortable. It is unconventional, difficult to measure, and doesn’t fit neatly into a media plan. That

Guerrilla Marketing: How brands like IKEA, The Blair Witch Project, and Coca-Cola turned unconventional ideas into unforgettable marketing moments2026-04-15T15:02:13+00:00

The Fundamentals of Paid Advertising: How Brands Turn Budget into Attention, and Attention into Revenue

The Fundamentals of Paid Advertising How Brands Turn Budget into Attention, and Attention into Revenue Paid advertising is often misunderstood as a blunt instrument - spend money, get results. If only it were that simple. In reality, paid ads sit at the intersection of psychology, data, creativity, and timing. Done well, they amplify growth. Done

The Fundamentals of Paid Advertising: How Brands Turn Budget into Attention, and Attention into Revenue2026-04-14T08:18:37+00:00