Sisam-Jones

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Marketing 101

You may not believe it, but we’ve seen the data, and email marketing remains one of the most powerful tools at the disposal of a marketer. It allows businesses to reach their audience directly (right to where they’re sitting), deliver personalised content, and build lasting relationships. However, with inboxes overflowing with promotional messages (hello mass delete every morning!) standing out requires more than just crafting a catchy subject line. Here’s a guide to email marketing best practices that will help you create impactful campaigns, engage your audience, and drive results.

5

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Marketing Careers

Marketing is exciting right? When someone asks you what you do and you say “marketing” there’s no doubt a glossy visualisation comes to mind. It’s an industry of big ideas, crunchy data, voice, brand, impact, and metrics – and there’s a really excellent career path laid out for those who choose to accept the quest. Whether you're just starting out or eyeing the top spot, we’re exploring the journey from entry-level roles to executive positions, highlighting key milestones, skills, and strategies for climbing the marketing career ladder. Let’s jump on!

3

 minutes

Marketing Careers

Try and fit a bit of learning into your week with these marketing podcasts, from the humanity in marketing to increasing website traffic, and everything in between.

4

 minutes

Marketing 101

We're diving into market segmentation - the art of using demographic, geographic, psychographic, behavioural, and firmographic information to create highly targeted and effective marketing campaigns.

4

 minutes

Marketing 101

This month's Mashup includes YouTube's ad-blocker bypass, LinkedIn's algorithm changes, Google's latest spam update, evolving influencer marketing trends, and Shopify's expanded AI tool suite.

4

 minutes

Marketing 101

This month's Mashup includes Google's new AI-driven shopping ads, Netflix's rapid growth in ad-supported users and new programmatic partnerships, scrutiny over Google's AI Overview errors, LinkedIn's dominance in organic traffic growth, and TikTok's significant impact on boosting cinema ticket sales.

4

 minutes

Marketing Careers

We're discussing why networking is a game-changer for marketers in New Zealand and Australia – from unlocking career opportunities and sparking creativity, to building valuable support systems.

4

 minutes

Grow Your Business

We're chatting about how data-driven decision-making and analytics can propel your business growth by enhancing customer understanding, operational efficiency, and informed strategic planning.

3

 minutes

Marketing 101

Once again, VM coming to the rescue to reduce the overwhelm! We're giving you a run down on the various content types that can be used for marketing, what they're for, how to use them best and finishing it off by sharing some top tips for content.

3

 minutes

Grow Your Business

We know sometimes you just need to know where to start. So we’ve put together a little guide to help you understand what budgets could look like for some of the most popular marketing platforms. There are a tonne of options, and they all vary so much, so we’ve outlined just a few to get you started. This is not a checklist, more a starter for ten, so have a read and then have a think about the right platforms for your audiences, and go from there! 

3

 minutes

Grow Your Business

We've got a run down of three cost-effective marketing tools – Canva, Mailchimp, and Hootsuite – designed to help small businesses enhance marketing efforts through easy-to-use platforms for graphic design, email campaigns, and social media management.

4

 minutes

Marketing 101

This month we cover LinkedIn's venture into short-form videos, Google's advanced Marketing Mix Modelling tool Meridian, Meta's integration of an AI chatbot across its platforms, a study revealing how good we are at distinguishing AI-generated content, and optimal YouTube posting times.