Author name: Nick Carlson

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Spelling mistakes accidentally on purpose

Many content professionals would recoil in horror at the very idea of a spelling or grammatical mistake being used deliberately. However, brands are using this tactic more often than you may think. Our brains have been conditioned to pick up on mistakes, errors and things that look out of place. Therefore, using this tactic within your sales and marketing communications might sound less daft than you think!
In our blog, we explain how brands are using errors to engage their target market, to come across as more human in an age of artificial intelligence (AI) and even come out from making a mistake with more credibility! We showcase some examples where this has happened. 

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Calls to action are underrated – 11 ideas for the perfect CTA

Whilst working in sales and marketing for over 20 years, the simpe ‘call to action’ or CTA is a part of most campaigns or pitch repertoire, so it is surprising that so many organisations don’t make the most of the humble CTA, while others forget to include a call to action at all! 
This blog was inspired after receiving an product with a warm welcoming message but sadly no call to action, missing the opportunity to help us to re-engage further. Especially as praise had been hard earned, but unfortunately the customer journey met a dead end at that point. A simple CTA would have allowed this business generate future revenue. Read our blog to find out what you could be missing. We have included real life examples and 11 useful ideas for the perfect CTA.

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Cost saving ideas for your business, consider outsourcing marketing?

Outsourced marketing can be a cost-effective option for businesses, especially small, medium and large sized enterprises (SMEs), as it eliminates the need to hire and maintain an in-house marketing team, which can be expensive. Additionally, outsourcing allows businesses to access specialized marketing expertise and technology that they may not be able to afford in-house.

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What Is Omnichannel Marketing?

Omnichannel has been a hot topic for a while, but achieving a true Omnichannel approach is not as simple as it seems. In this article, we discover:

What Omnichannel really means
The pitfalls to avoid
The benefits of being truly Omnichannel
A few neat tricks you can use when developing your own Omnichannel experience. 

Let’s share some ‘Secret Source’ – An Omnichannel experience is not only where physical and digital worlds collide, but rather where they learn to co-exist and thrive. The overall mission is to benefit the consumer whilst providing useful, integrated data so the vendor can provide continuous improvements and remain competitive and relevant. 

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HubSpot users are using between 20-30% of capabilities within HubSpot!

Secret Source Marketing are a UK HubSpot partner agency, working with enterprise global brands, SME’s, Start-Ups, B2B and B2C, across different sectors.  We’ve been a successful HubSpot partner for over 6 years. Many of us at Secret Source have been users of CRM systems for 20+ years. During that time we have seen many CRM solutions come and go, or get acquired. We’ve seen the birth of marketing automation systems and, more recently, the emergence of sales automation and service automation systems. We started off many years ago, onboarding clients wanting to use HubSpot. Time after time we would watch and help our customers grow and this was partly because they had predictable sales and marketing pipeline, clear goals,focus on their inbound strategy and deal process. Having a coherent strategy also led to healthy sales and marketing alignment. HubSpot sales and marketing automation systems worked together and life was good! Secret Source grew and started inheriting existing HubSpot users, here we found a different story!

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Can Brands Recover? | Brand

With major conflicts happening around the world, a global pandemic, and an uncertain economic climate, then managing a brand and its reputation has just become a whole lot harder!  With so many recent examples of brands having to be reactive to political and audience pressure, a brand’s response, reaction time and communications has never been so important than over the last twelve months! 
Apple, Coca-Cola, Nestle – there is a very long list of brands all getting a hammering over not pulling out of geographic locations quick enough or not at all. While brands like P&O Ferries make 800 employees redundant over a video message. Have brands completely lost all empathy for their audience?
We discuss the pressure on brands, will they overcome the current climate and reputable damage to their brand(s)? How can brands help protect themselves and become more empathetic? 

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