Category: Marketing & Business

  • What will you need to successfully adopt AI in Marketing?

    What will you need to successfully adopt AI in Marketing?

    This is the first in a series of articles that explores Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) tools in marketing: policy and principles, their tactical or operational deployment, strategy and planning. This first article explores key foundational elements (background, concepts, strengths, limitations, and risks) to provide an understanding of these emerging tools, within a context of Marketing,…

  • Discover insights to find & fix site errors, design successful campaigns and improve marketing ops

    Discover insights to find & fix site errors, design successful campaigns and improve marketing ops

    This is an easy win. The actionable insights will help you prioritise improvement efforts on your website and design successful campaigns – for free! Insights like: I recommend anyone managing a website creates an ahrefs account (at no charge) and configures a weekly scan on their site. The free tools produce a whole bunch of…

  • New ePrivacy Regulation will hit your B2B sales team’s prospecting activities (yes, you should be concerned)

    On the 19th of October 2018 a new draft of the EU ePrivacy Regulation (ePR) was published and it still contains new rules that may greatly constrain B2B sales and marketing teams. The ePR was originally intended to be introduced parallel to, and to compliment, GDPR; However, it has been delayed and may now be introduced in…

  • HubSpot: Integrating other cookie scripts into the HubSpot Cookie consent tool

    HubSpot: Integrating other cookie scripts into the HubSpot Cookie consent tool

    The new 🍪 consent tool in HubSpot will only prevent HubSpot cookies from being set by default. I couldn’t find a good ‘cookie control’ solution that would work well with HubSpot and 3rd party cookies, so I had to evolve the default HubSpot cookie tool so that it would make it work for my situation. Hopefully…

  • Solved: Batch convert PDF to PPT & DOC files in Acrobat X Pro

    This guide will help you to setup an Acrobat X action to easily batch convert PDFs in a folder. Once configured, you can run the action by simply selecting it from within Adobe X Pro. The action batch converts PDF files in to office PPTX or DOCX format files. Once you have this action configured,…

  • Guide: How to change the Rel=Canonical Link on Hubspot pages and posts

    Guide: How to change the Rel=Canonical Link on Hubspot pages and posts

    HubSpot offers no official way of changing this important SEO parameter. However, if you do need to change it there is a way! It’s very simple and just involves a snippet of jQuery code. Just edit the code snippet below with the address of your original content and then place it within your post or…

  • Scream if you want to go faster…

    AKA: Where is our superfast broadband? An open letter to Fastershire, Openreach, Gigaclear, Gloucestershire CC, Moreton-in-Marsh Town Council and Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP For 4 years now the our development (comprising >300 new build homes in Moreton-in-Marsh) has been promised broadband as part of the ‘Fastershire’ roll out plan. As far back as 2013 the Fastershire status for…

  • GDPR in B2B Marketing + Sales: Less Ambiguity please

    Everywhere I turn for advice on GDPR I seem to get a different opinion.

  • GDPR & B2B Marketing

    I’ve written an updated post on how the impending ePrivacy regulations will impact on B2B marketing and B2B sales here: Update on ePrivacy’s impact on B2B marketing and sales This very useful article from the DMA on how GDPR will affect B2B marketing is a must read. Crucially: “…when emailing or texting, you do not need…