Business Insights

Our Marketing 360 Assessment has found that there are three aspects of marketing that UK SME owners struggle with the most: marketing metrics, generating leads and executing marketing plans. In this post, we’ll focus on the third challenge: making the right marketing plans and implementing them effectively. We recently spoke with Fiona Bowyer, one of our Part-Time Marketing Directors, to understand how she helped her client to tackle a few core marketing challenges that, if not addressed, could undermine the impact and effectiveness of their marketing plan. By addressing the company’s branding, website and tech stack, she managed to triple the number of monthly leads from the company’s website and switch the lead generation focus from outbound to inbound.

Our Marketing 360 Assessment has found that there are three aspects of marketing that UK SME owners struggle with the most: marketing metrics, generating leads and executing marketing plans. In this post, we’ll focus on the second challenge: generating the right leads and closing them effectively.

Our Marketing 360 Assessment has found that there are three aspects of marketing that UK SME owners struggle with the most: marketing metrics, generating leads and executing marketing plans. In this post, we’ll focus on the first challenge: measuring marketing performance and understanding its ROI. We recently caught up with Tony Galloni, one of our Marketing Directors, to find out how he helped a UK SME with an annual turnover of £7m to go from not measuring their marketing at all to using sales and marketing data to plan future investments in their team and their factory. He also gave us some more general advice for business owners who want to get a better handle on their marketing metrics and ROI.

Last year we launched our revamped Marketing 360 Assessment to give business leaders a quick and easy way to measure their marketing performance and prioritise areas to work on. Since then, over 500 UK business leaders have used the tool to get a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses - and one thing was abundantly clear from the data we’ve received.

Like most organisations, we’ve had to change some of the ways we reach new customers over the past year. One of the things we’ve experimented with is webinars.