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The Evolution of Influencer Marketing
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The Evolution of Influencer Marketing

Influencer marketing is not disappearing any time soon. The platforms it is present on will always evolve and adapt, whether in the more traditional direction of Facebook or Instagram, or on emerging platforms like LinkedIn or TikTok.

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Three key questions to guide the marketing brief writing process
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Three key questions to guide the marketing brief writing process

Why does brief writing cause dread for many people, and what’s the magic formula for writing a brief that will generate the right agency response?

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3 Winning Digital Marketing Strategies for Luxury Brands
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3 Winning Digital Marketing Strategies for Luxury Brands

The luxury market is growing, but keeping up with the digital marketing boom as a luxury brand comes with its own challenges.

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Google and Apple privacy updates - what the ‘death’ of third-party data means for digital advertising
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Google and Apple privacy updates - what the ‘death’ of third-party data means for digital advertising

This week, GO! Network members The Potting Shed update us on what the upcoming privacy and data changes from Google and Apple mean for digital advertising.

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Deep Dive: Vanarama on the Wrexham Hollywood sign, the National League and taking risks as a brand
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Deep Dive: Vanarama on the Wrexham Hollywood sign, the National League and taking risks as a brand

With an upcoming Disney FX series, Ryan Reynold’s co-ownership, and now its very own Hollywood sign (courtesy of Vanarama), we’ve found an unlikely celebrity in the Welsh town of Wrexham.

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What Successful Client-Agency relationships look like
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What Successful Client-Agency relationships look like

Our new paper, 'Mutual Success: Building effective relationships with agency partners' shares some best-practise examples of client-agency relationships, how to evaluate your existing partnerships, and advice from our network.

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Pulse Check:  B2B Marketing Trends for the 'Next Normal'
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Pulse Check: B2B Marketing Trends for the 'Next Normal'

This week, we’re sharing findings from GO! Network Members Fox Agency around their 2021 ClientSide report on growing B2B technology brands.

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Mutual Success: Lesniak Swann & Nuaire on creativity in B2B
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Mutual Success: Lesniak Swann & Nuaire on creativity in B2B

GO! Network members, Lesniak Swann, a specialist B2B marketing agency sit down with their client, Nuaire to discuss the key to mutual success and reflect on their brand-agency relationship so far.

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2021 Marketing Survey - Key findings so far
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2021 Marketing Survey - Key findings so far

We’re in a unique position at the GO! Network to watch marketing trends come and go on both the brand and agency side of the industry. Though our latest survey is still live, here are the key marketing trends we're seeing so far.

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How to run an agency evaluation properly
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How to run an agency evaluation properly

Whether it’s a 6-month project or a 10-year outsourced relationship, the most important thing is to ensure your agency partners are driving success for you – and vice versa.

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How not to do tone of voice guidelines
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How not to do tone of voice guidelines

Between us we’ve created hundreds of tone of voice guidelines for clients of all shapes and sizes. And critiqued a fair few too. Here are the main pitfalls we tend to see, handily collated for your perusal.

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Brief writing: Common Mistakes
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Brief writing: Common Mistakes

Ultimately, a brief can make or break a digital project, and can end up being a very costly mistake. So it’s imperative that you get it right from the get-go.

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5 things to include when writing a digital brief
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5 things to include when writing a digital brief

Whether it be for a campaign, a new website or something in between, please use this list to empower you and your agency.

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If you want your brand to be heard, start listening
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If you want your brand to be heard, start listening

Yes, there is a brand message that you need to share and yes, it’s important the audience receives the information, but if you really want them to engage with you, you have to listen to them.

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Against the Grain: BODA SKINS
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Against the Grain: BODA SKINS

BODA SKINS are on a quest to create the best products in the world. Our neighbours in Manchester BODA SKINS handcraft their leather jackets in artisan mills, they redesign the established and do it better.

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How to Use Marketing Agency Support in a Fast-Growth Business
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How to Use Marketing Agency Support in a Fast-Growth Business

In this roundup, our network of fast-growth leaders and specialists discuss when to engage, and how to manage, external support within your business.

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How to Create Effective Team Cultures – Including your Agencies
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How to Create Effective Team Cultures – Including your Agencies

In this roundup, senior industry leaders share how to create an effective successful team culture that includes your marketing agencies and other external support.

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Building a Market Research and Analysis Strategy that Boosts your Brand
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Building a Market Research and Analysis Strategy that Boosts your Brand

With so many industries reaching saturation point, how do you stand out? This week, our experts share how to plan and invest in a sustainable market research strategy that keeps your business ahead of the curve.

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Leaders’ Perspective: Starting from Scratch as a Business Owner
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Leaders’ Perspective: Starting from Scratch as a Business Owner

Leaders from across the industry spectrum share their experiences of starting a business from scratch.

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Digital Transformation for SMEs and Fast-Growth Businesses: The Guide to Getting Started
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Digital Transformation for SMEs and Fast-Growth Businesses: The Guide to Getting Started

One of the hardest parts of running a fast-growing business is how quickly you can outgrow your tooling. In this article, our experts share how you can ensure your software suite works for your future as well as your present.

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An Introduction to Outbound Lead Generation: Getting it right and where to start
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An Introduction to Outbound Lead Generation: Getting it right and where to start

Outbound prospecting and lead generation has a bit of a bad reputation, yet it is a heavily relied on channel for many agencies looking to find new business opportunities. So how do you do it right?

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Quick Wins: Marketing And Sales Software To Make Your Strategy Work Smarter
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Quick Wins: Marketing And Sales Software To Make Your Strategy Work Smarter

For fast-growth teams, maximising efficiency whilst maintaining your output can often feel overwhelming. This week, we’ve rounded up 6 of the best marketing and sales software solutions for businesses scaling at speed.

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How To Maximise Profit from Your Existing Client Portfolio
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How To Maximise Profit from Your Existing Client Portfolio

For fast-growth agencies, maximising your profit by expanding on your current client portfolio is crucial. This week, The Wow Company shared practical tips and insights on how to broach this in a way that increases value for you and your clients.

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How to Manage your Agency Projects for Profitability
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How to Manage your Agency Projects for Profitability

Shifting requirements or amends in client-agency partnerships can often lead to agencies taking on unexpected costs. This week, The Wow Company shared 3 key strategies to ensure you're maximising profit before and during your projects.

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How To Increase Profitability Through Your Pricing Model
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How To Increase Profitability Through Your Pricing Model

In the second of our ‘agency profit series,’ Rory Spence of expert accountancy firm The Wow Company explained how to make the most of your pricing structure, according to the top 10% of UK agencies.

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How agencies can increase profitability with planning
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How agencies can increase profitability with planning

Productivity, time-mapping and financial planning can easily fall by the wayside when it comes to running an agency day to day, but it's crucial for maximising profit. So where do you start? Here's how to get started on planning for profitability.

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Leaders Perspective: What Real Sustainability Looks Like And Where To Start

To coincide with B Corp month, and with conscious consumerism on the rise, we reached out to business leaders and GO! Network members to ask what sustainability looks like for them, and how you can start with your own sustainable strategy.

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Tendering 101 – Improving your process and winning more business

Health & Safety experts Citation share how to win more business with tendering, common mistakes, processes to pick up and how to ace your application when you tender for work.

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Deep Dive: How the Payments Association rebrand reflects a changing industry

Our Head of Brand Partnerships, Dominic Wren, caught up with Tony Craddock, Director General of the Payments Association, to learn about the reason behind the rebrand, and bringing together a potentially fractured payments world.

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Your back-end systems aren’t a ‘tech’ issue. They’re a marketing issue.

B2B and ‘institutional’ marketers know all too well about the back-end systems that eat your data without providing value or insight. Netsells explain how these systems are more than just an annoyance - and how fixing them isn't as hard as it looks.

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How B2B businesses can create an effective social media strategy

For many B2B brands a social media strategy is loosely defined at best. Below, GO! Network members Lesniak Swann explain how B2B businesses can create and execute a social media plan that isn't just strategic, but also tied to commercial objectives.

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The Growth of Electrical Retail

As we have been restricted from enjoying certain parts of life during the pandemic, our spending on electrical, audio and visual goods has increased significantly and the retailers in this market have seen record sales.

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Pulse Check: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the marketing world.

This week, we’re sharing findings from Forty 1 (A division of The Creative Engagement Group) around their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report.

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Pulse Check: What's your brand's Empathy score?

Schwa’s empathy test allows brands to measure and benchmark their empathy based on how they communicate with their customers and wider audience. A GO! Network member, Schwa tested their tool on an industry not known for its empathy: banking.

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Behavioural Science: The Big Picture

Guy Champniss, PhD, discusses behavioural science and its importance within business.

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Digital Marketing Transformation: 10 common mistakes

According to Pew, 78% of internet users conduct product research online, so there are some key facts to remember when it comes to avoiding some of the most common digital marketing mistakes.

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Money Matters for British Muslims

The four million Muslims living in Britain have a distinct relationship with their money and finances. Their religious beliefs strongly influence their financial choices; everything from banking, home financing to inheritance.

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Continental Appoints Hatch as New UK Consumer PR and Influencer Agency Partner
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Continental Appoints Hatch as New UK Consumer PR and Influencer Agency Partner

Multinational automotive supplier; Continental appoints Hatch to be their new PR agency partner, following a thorough search and selection process managed by The GO! Network – who oversaw a final four-way competitive pitch.

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The GO! Network’s Next Chapter: A Tech-First Future
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The GO! Network’s Next Chapter: A Tech-First Future

The GO! Network is evolving. Under the ownership of FindProcure Ltd, we’re adopting a technology-first approach to enhance efficiency, deliver smarter insights, and improve how brands connect.

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Morphy Richards Selects Social Trinity for TikTok Shop Partner
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Morphy Richards Selects Social Trinity for TikTok Shop Partner

Leading kitchen and home appliance brand - Morphy Richards, has appointed Social Trinity to be their TikTok Shop partner, following an introduction through The GO! Network - who then oversaw the competitive pitch process.

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We're Hiring - GO! Network Retention Manager
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We're Hiring - GO! Network Retention Manager

Due to a period of significant growth at GO!, we are looking to appoint a Network Retention Manager as part of our driven and collaborative agency account management team.

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talkSPORT BET Selects Democracy PR for Brand Awareness and New Market Launch
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talkSPORT BET Selects Democracy PR for Brand Awareness and New Market Launch

Manchester-based Democracy PR has been selected by talkSPORT BET to support their new market activation following a competitive search and selection process managed by The GO! Network.

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Pitch Win: O’Donnell Moonshine appoint TrunkBBI for Brand & Strategy Project
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Pitch Win: O’Donnell Moonshine appoint TrunkBBI for Brand & Strategy Project

The high-quality spirits and liqueurs brand will be working with GO! Network members TrunkBBI to drive ambitious expansion plans after winning at pitch.

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Pitch Win: The Health Lottery Select Realtime Agency for New Lead Media and Creative Partnership
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Pitch Win: The Health Lottery Select Realtime Agency for New Lead Media and Creative Partnership

The London/Denver based agency will be working with The Health Lottery after a competitive agency search and selection process managed by The GO! Network.

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Pitch Win: Blake Mill appoint Vega for Paid Search and Growth Marketing support
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Pitch Win: Blake Mill appoint Vega for Paid Search and Growth Marketing support

The premium designer menswear brand will be working with GO! Network members Vega to drive ambitious expansion plans after winning at pitch.

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Pitch Win: Seasalt Cornwall appoint Network Members Brave Bison in new Lead Social partnership
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Pitch Win: Seasalt Cornwall appoint Network Members Brave Bison in new Lead Social partnership

The Cornish clothing and lifestyle brand will be working with GO! Network members Brave Bison to lead on their UK and US paid social strategy in 2024 after a competitive pitch process.

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Pitch Win: Leading Digital Mental Health Provider Kooth Invest in Online Presence with Appointment of Athlon
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Pitch Win: Leading Digital Mental Health Provider Kooth Invest in Online Presence with Appointment of Athlon

Kooth will be working with GO! Network members Athlon to lead on the consolidation of their digital presence in 2024 after a competitive pitch process.

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Pitch win: Citizens Advice invest in brand awareness with Lead Creative appointment of Story Group
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Pitch win: Citizens Advice invest in brand awareness with Lead Creative appointment of Story Group

The independent charity will be working with GO! Network members Story Group to lead on a new brand awareness campaign in 2024 after a competitive pitch process.

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The Best Marketing Campaigns of 2023 - Monthly Review
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The Best Marketing Campaigns of 2023 - Monthly Review

We bring you a round-up of the biggest and best Creative, Digital, and OOH marketing and advertising campaigns each month in 2023.

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