British polymath and humanist Bertrand Russell once said, “Some people would sooner die than think, and most do”. The same can be said about content. Great content requires thought. Without it, your content will pass away unnoticed and without impact. So, the more thought, the better. What’s the most thoughtful of content? Thought leadership – […]
Finding your path into a blog post, or any article can be daunting. One of my habits is to look for a quote. Let’s face it, there’s always a quote. Here’s a good one from Leonardo Da Vinci, ‘A rule for developing a good brain is to know how everything connects to everything else.’ By the […]
Have you ever visited a trade show, and, looking at the array of stand banners and panels, been at a complete loss as to what some of the exhibitors do? Or visited the website of a prospective supplier and had to wade through case studies to understand why you should do business with them? The […]
We all have confused moments – some more than others. But, when your audience is confused, that’s a big problem. Below we look at cleantech confusion and what you can do about it. When you’re working with new technology or difficult ideas, there may be lots of terminology that is unfamiliar to your customers. There […]
There’s something about threes and Cs in content marketing and writing. The three Cs of content marketing are often trotted out as Creation, Curation and Conversation. In content writing, the trinity becomes Clear, Concise and Compelling. But how about Creativity, Compassion and Credibility? Or Clauses, Colons and Commas? There are three other Cs that combine […]
We use them in all our work. Our clients use them too. But often, briefs can be incomplete, people can overlook their benefits, and they can be side-lined because of time. To that we say, ‘no more! Viva la brief!’ The benefits of briefs A well-crafted brief can be like an extra team member. It […]
A case study is a story you tell your customers about an occasion when you successfully helped a client with a problem. The client needed something, you did it for them, and now you tell new customers about it – simple. They’re an essential tool for selling your products, and a key part of an […]
To stand out in today’s crowded marketplace, standard marketing tools, like off-the-page ads or targeted emails are no longer enough. You need to engage your audience before you try to sell to them. And the way to do that is to create useful, engaging content that builds trust, generates leads, and maintains customer loyalty. But […]
You’re no doubt familiar with the pushy sales email or video – the one that promises to solve all your problems, but only if you ‘buy now before time runs out’. It’s called a hard sell – and you might be tempted to use the same technique yourself. But there’s a problem. Your customer is […]
Your PR agency is only as good as the content it writes. If you can’t get the right messages across in the right way, you might as well not invest in PR at all. Editors don’t publish badly written articles and press releases. And even if they did, your audience wouldn’t have the patience to […]
