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Were you surprised to read the title of this post? Do you believe that using technology to understand customers is the only way today? Then let me explain why I believe it's not quite that simple.  In today's data-rich environment...

Denyse Drummond-Dunn · Are You Still Using The Marketing 5Ps? Move To The Improved 7Qs. “Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.” Marketing is a great profession and the marketing 5Ps...

I've been involved in hundreds of successful project management initiatives over my career. I’ve been the leader, sponsor or team member, which means that each time I had different responsibilities. What they all had in common was the desire to...

Marketing often jumps from information to insight, to the frustration of market research. But the best marketers know that closer collaboration and sharing enables greater underst anding and deeper insights...

One of the most frequent questions I get asked by my clients is how they can improve their innovation.  Whether they are large or small, global or local, they all want to their new products and services to be more...

Everyone is talking about customer first strategies and why they are important. However walking the talk is a different matter! An interesting article on NewMR by Ray Poynter prompted this post. He spoke about the differences between customer focus and...

Just like most entrepreneurs and business people, I go to my fair share of conferences. I believe that marketers can benefit from being regularly challenged by new thinking and ideas. One that stays in my memory for many reasons, was...

If you commission or conduct market research, then this post is a must-read. It shares ten important reasons I have learnt over the years for NOT running a market research project, but which are unfortunately still prevalent today. Which, if...

A New Year tradition we started here at C3Centricity back in 2011, is to share our most popular brand building strategies and posts of the year. This gives everyone a chance to catch up on our best posts that they...

This shorter than usual post was inspired by a great question on Quora about how to get new clients. Although my original answer was for a web design company, most of my ideas are relevant whatever industry or profession you...