Brian ColesMar 91 min readIf you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informedI didn't make that quote up, it came from Mark Twain, and this quote from him is a hundred years old. I have to say it still stands. I...
Brian ColesJan 9, 20231 min readEmail messaging: hands down, the most effective, trusted channel you are probably not using wellAfter you spend a ton of your marketing budget on driving people to your website, what do you do with the people that have trusted your...
Brian ColesAug 23, 20221 min readWho (at your org) is stopping marketing automation being a success?After years of working with marketing automation, I discovered who this type of person is, and it might suprise you. Needless to say...
Brian ColesJun 30, 20211 min readBest practise or vague practise?What is best practise anyway? It's becoming a little old hat in marketing.
Brian ColesJan 17, 20212 min readThe CRM is dead, long live the (marketing enhanced) CRM Years ago I was told by a McKinsey CX researcher that that the CRM was dead
Brian ColesOct 30, 20202 min readThe website flow is deadOrganisations that are serving up the best online experiences are using data to shape every CMS page the user lands on. Because if that...
Brian ColesMar 5, 20201 min readMarketing with empathyReally? Is it possible? How can you have empathy with all the possible use cases that a person has when they visit your online presence?...
Brian ColesFeb 9, 20202 min readYou talkin' to me?Yeah you, you talkin' to me? If you know this scene in Taxi Driver, with leading man (Robert Di Nero), then you know he's kind of edgy....