Leadership
Discovering mentors was “life-changing” for Nick Bell, an AFR young rich-listed entrepreneur whose now more than 1000 employees in seven digital agencies are spread across 12 offices in eight countries.
Digital Marketing
Winning over the millennial generation of consumers and taking advantage of rapid digital take-up has led iconic 90-year-old Australian brand, Dri-Glo, to take its first steps into direct-to-consumer commerce.
Little Birdie, a new homepage for online shopping, has appointed ex-Uber marketer, David Jennings, as its CMO and Kogan.com’s former deputy CFO Joanne Smith as CFO.
Digital Marketing
Outdoor Media Australia (OMA) and its research partner, Neuro-Insight, are claiming to have found the holy grail of outdoor advertising in world-first results launched jointly today.
Harvey Norman has been the biggest loser in the latest Roy Morgan trust survey, skidding as other retailers benefited from record GDP 9.6 per cent growth for the year and maintained their trusted positions.
Strategy
Bailey Nelson has seen online sales conversion lift by 400 per cent in Australia and more than 600 per cent in Canada off the back of an innovative virtual reality-based try-on solution for spectacle wearers.
Leadership
A picture of the difficulties faced by many CMOs was painted by Gartner’s team in the opening keynote to the analyst firm’s Marketing Symposium in September.
Australia has had its fourth consecutive month of +40 per cent advertising growth across July and sales excluding digital are already up 15 per cent for the month of August.
Digital Marketing
Relationship building, curiosity, a high threshold for change and positive mindset are vital attributes marketing leaders look for when they recruit for regional marketing teams.
Digital Marketing
Kmart has joined other retailers by invigorating its online content to engage customers with a series of ‘masterclasses’. The classes also market its expanding furniture range – another response to customers’ increasingly indoor lives.
Leadership
Mining through the ‘minutiae’ of seemingly niche cultural phenomena could provide marketers with the toolkit for far stronger and more impactful engagement with consumers than purely relying on digital or survey data.
Leadership
According to CMO’s annual State of the CMO research, marketing leaders rate the CEO/MD as their biggest champion and advocate within the organisation. So what does it take to truly build a great, strategic connection with your CEO/MD? We ask leading marketers from Greencross, MyDeal, Audi, NAB and West HQ for their valuable insights.
Digital Marketing
Exponential growth in ecommerce drove Australia Post to record group revenue of $8.27 billion, up 10.3 per cent for the financial year. And the online driver was echoed in year-end reports from retailers, Coles and Woolworths.
Leadership
On 6 September, Brightstar officially takes the wrappers off its comprehensive rebrand to Likewize. The massive effort is designed to showcase the global company’s transformation from mobile phone distribution to a broader technology protection and services provider. Here, its CMO shares the key steps taken by him and the Brightstar team to orchestrate the rebrand, and hefty learnings along the way.
People
ASX-listed Freedom Foods has brought on a new chief marketing officer and chief customer officer to round out its new-look executive leadership team.
Digital Marketing
Chemist Warehouse has struck a partnership with DoorDash to deliver pharmaceutical products via the on-demand platform to customers within 24 hours.
Leadership
Feelings often trump rational thought when it comes to many decisions we make in our lives. And it’s this very insight that’s behind the rebrand strategy employed by MyDeal CMO, Ryan Gracie, to kickstart a new era for the 10-year-old online retail business.
Digital Marketing
Building brand credibility as a pure-play marketing vendor and demonstrating local customer commitment through tech and employee investment is how Acoustic is hoping to secure growth in Australia and across Asia-Pacific.
Digital Marketing
Outdoor media company, QMS, and neuro-marketing firm, Neuro-Insight, have found and quantified the way changing digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising can have a 38 per cent higher impact than static advertising - all by day five.
Strategy
Ever-increasing competition in products and services means brands must appeal to customers on every level to maintain their loyalty.
Digital Marketing
Comparison services provider, iSelect, has highlighted Australia’s Consumer Data Right (CDR) legislation as its next big customer growth opportunity and an instrumental part of its five-year strategy.
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In the third and final episode of our 3-part CMO50 video series exploring modern marketing and why it’s become a matter of trust, we’re delighted to be joined by Telstra’s former CMO and now digital services and sales executive, Jeremy Nicholas, and Adobe VP Marketing Asia-Pacific and Japan, Duncan Egan.
Flash back to the classic film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Television-obsessed Mike insists on becoming the first person to be ‘sent by Wonkavision’, dematerialising on one end, pixel by pixel, and materialising in another space. His cinematic dreams are realised thanks to rash decisions as he is shrunken down to fit the digital universe, followed by a trip to the taffy puller to return to normal size.
Why is it there is no shortage of leadership development materials, yet outstanding leadership is so rare? Despite having access to so many leadership principles, tools, systems and processes, why is it so hard to develop and improve as a leader?
As a nation united by sport, brands are beginning to learn money alone won’t talk without aligned values and action. If recent events with major leagues and their players have shown us anything, it’s the next generation of athletes are standing by what they believe in – and they won’t let their values be superseded by money.
