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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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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

Email marketing tips for small businesses

As a marketing agency, we have supported small businesses with setting up and delivering their email marketing strategy. Therefore, we wanted to put together a guide of email marketing tips for small businesses to help you on your way! In this week’s blog, we explore everything from understanding your email marketing objectives to some of the most missed opportunities we see from the small businesses we talk to.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

A week in the life of a freelance marketer

One of the most popular blogs I have written over the last few years was a week in the life of a Senior Marketing Manager, so I thought I would recreate this now that I am a freelance marketing consultant.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

2023 the year of the nostalgia marketing

Today, I wanted to explore some of the most impactful and memorable campaigns of 2023, and we can’t get away from the nostalgia of those brands. This is why I am calling 2023 the year of nostalgia marketing.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

The role of storytelling: Using a narrative in your marketing strategy

If you have read any of our previous blogs you will know that we love storytelling at Marketing Moments and think it has a key role to play in a marketing team. Today, we wanted to explore the role of storytelling and creating a compelling narrative in your marketing strategy.

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