Within the CIM qualifications there are many elements which refer to the business models used by organisations, with the Driving Innovation module from the Diploma in Professional Marketing particularly focussed on this. Driving Innovation considers alternative business models and how they can be used to gain long term competitive advantage for an organisation. Making news […]
Uber seem to be revolutionising the taxi market, and transport in general through a different business model. However, they may be replaced by a very different business model – or at least, that would appear to be the hope of Google. As is well documented Google have been developing driver-less car technology but have now […]
OK, many people may think that Clarkson is often wrong (doesn’t anyone really opinionated have this reputation though?) but in his piece in the Driving section of The Sunday Times yesterday he certainly was when saying that there is no way of knowing if marketing (he was talking primarily about promotion) is measurable or not. […]
A great day at the CIM Northern Conference, this blog was created and updated during the day. We were attending as an event sponsor so set up our stall early Follow these links for highlights from the speakers and their presentations during the day. The Constantly Connected Consumer – Alex Blaikley, Google […]
The Constantly Connected Consumer – Alex Blaikley, Google Alex demonstrated how important mobile now is for marketers, some key stats: – 18 – 24 years olds check their phones on average 53 times per day – 35% of smartphone users check their phones within 5 minutes of waking every day – 40% of online transactions […]
Getting your Unfair Share of Business Barry Holder of Fantastic Media helped delegates gain an unfair advantage with lots of “Fantastic marketing” tips, interspersed with quotes. Some highlights were: email marketing 74% of marketers believe email will be most significant for ROI over the next 5 years Fantastic tips for email – Target and personalise […]
Strategic Collaborative Advantage This was a great talk (best of the day for me) from Paul Skinner of Agency of the Future and Pimp my Cause, full of fantastic tips for any business and also those studying CIM qualifications, particularly the Driving Innovation module of the Diploma in Professional Marketing. Starting with the question about […]
We are delighted to announce that from September we will be delivering the new Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) qualifications for the Certificate and Diploma in Professional Marketing in Sheffield with evening courses to enable professional marketers to gain the qualifications in under 12 months for each. Full details available soon or contact us for […]
