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Tips for creating collaborative processes across teams

When teams work in silos, projects slow down, decisions get fuzzy, and brilliant ideas never make it past the meeting room. But with the right collaborative processes this can change. Read our blog to find out our top tips.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

What is marketing segmentation? A simple guide for small businesses

Most small businesses when we start working with are trying to market to everyone. It can feel a bit like throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks. The truth is, you don’t need to reach everyone, you need to reach the ideal customer. This is where market segmentation can help. It enables you to focus on the people who are most likely to buy. In this guide, we will break down what segmentation means, why it matters and how your small business can start using it today.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

Customer-first marketing: Align marketing content with real customer problems

In the last blog we mentioned customer journey mapping and how this is a useful approach to helping you to understand the customer experience and pain points. In today’s blog post we are going to explore how mapping customer journeys can be a catalyst for aligning marketing content with real customer problems.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

Customer-first Marketing: Embed your “voice of the customer” loops

We always liked the previous CIM definition of marketing as it used the word “advocate” for customers, whereas now it talks about satisfying and responding to customer needs. However, the word advocate we always found very emotive word to use when helping the teams we lead to understand their role. For us apart of this advocating for them, means ensuring they have a voice and we’re listening to them!

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

Five approaches to build a customer-first marketing culture in 2026

In our new series of mini blogs we will be exploring operationalising customer empathy, creating processes that encourage and use customer feedback, aligning marketing content with real customer problems, how to incentivise customer centricity, bridging the gap between marketing, sales and other functions, and the role internal comms and engagement.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

A small business guide to creating your marketing strategy

Marketing strategy doesn’t need to be complicated. For us a marketing strategy needs to answer three key questions: what is your current situation; what are you trying to achieve and how are you going to do this? For us the most important part of any marketing strategy is that everyone understands it, can recall it and it guides their actions.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

A guide to increasing your local visibility

Local Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of optimising your online presence to reach more customers from nearby searches, especially Google Search and maps. It will help your business to show up when people search for services “near me” or in a specific town, like “restaurants in Chelmsford”.

In today’s blog we are going to focus on tips and tricks to make sure your Google Business Profile is optimised.

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