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With every season comes a new marketing opportunity, with activity focused on something topical and current. Marketing strategies are often led by the external environment, and seasonal promotions are a key tool to adopt in your campaigns. Looking into consumer behaviour is vital, tailoring your marketing efforts to their preferences, but when you combine this with a seasonal marketing campaign, you’ve created a strategy that can focus on a niche, whilst also having the potential to call out to a new audience.

Leadership is the number one influencing factor for business success, according to Bain & Company’s annual report in 2021.

For every business owner, there comes a time to make some difficult decisions. If you are looking to sell your business, the most important one is around the ‘what next’, that is, the legacy of the business.

When it comes to recognising innovative start-ups from the past five years, there’s an endless number of brands that have catapulted themselves from a pipe dream to a successful global business, but today, I specifically want to talk about HEAT.

“Without a clear purpose, business strategy and operations will drift, damaging differentiation, decreasing cohesion, motivation, and alignment across an organisation, and ultimately weakening performance.”

Things were never supposed to be this way. Investors entered 2022 on a high. Public markets had been riding a tech boom and the US, in particular, had seen a record period for new initial public offerings in 2021.

“Demonstrate how the business can run without you. In many ways this is the ultimate sign of leadership.” Selling is the closure of persuasion, and persuasion drives leadership.  Yet the reality is many business owners going through the process of selling up often neglect the leadership qualities which delivered growth.

Digital marketing continues to be a vital aspect of business success, and 2023 will be no different. In fact, the New Year will bring a plethora of new trends and tactics, and if you are not on top of your marketing and keeping up to date with the ever-evolving changes in the digital world, then you you’re at risk of being left behind.

The best Christmas campaigns are the ones that take you on a journey, that help you forget everything around you for those few moments and embrace the pure magic of the festivities. Well, we’ve manged to find 3 campaigns this year that have successfully done just this.

With the holiday season well and truly upon us, the eCommerce market is becoming more bustling than ever. With so many different discounts and promotions here, there, and everywhere, buyers found themselves drowning in a sea of choice. So, it's vital that marketers get it right. But with budgets tight and environmental awareness more prominent than ever, did 2022 present the perfect opportunity for a ‘greener’ Black Friday?

Formula 1, I doff my cap. Not to the sport, but to the show and its success in attracting a whole new audience to the sport. They’ve recognised that whilst the sport is already a global phenomenon, it can always be bigger, better, and even more successful.

Ryan Reynolds is an incredibly talented Canadian, A-list celebrity and Hollywood Actor who is also considered a giant in the entrepreneurial world. Best known for his role as the Marvel Comics character Deadpool, Ryan is one of the highest-grossing film actors of all time, raking in a worldwide box-office gross of over $5Bn. In recognition of his service to the industry, Ryan was awarded a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017, solidifying him as one of the all-time greats.