Formerly White Marble Consulting
As winter gives way to spring, many of us develop an inexplicable urge to clean and get rid of unused or broken items. It can be therapeutic. While we don't recommend marketing teams go full 'Marie Kondo', setting aside time to get your house in order, at least once a year, is good practice.
The way you talk with colleagues and how you chat with friends is distinct. Your tone, the volume at which you speak, the words you choose and even how you react to what people are saying can all be very different. This is how you should approach social media. What works on LinkedIn, won't get the same traction on other channels.
Group think is the enemy of creativity. You want to bring together a mixture of people who have been with the company for a long time and possess varying degrees of institutional memory, as well as new joiners who are less fixed in their thinking.
There's a plugin for that... words that can cause website developers to shudder. By the time clients seek our help, they have often bolted together various off-the-shelf components, which has compromised the functionality and user experience of their site.
It’s always interesting to look back and see the different types of projects we completed in any given year. Having the opportunity to work on a such an incredible range of strategic, as well as ‘business-as-usual’, projects is one of the things the team cherishes most about working at Alpha Agency.
We are delighted to announce our new name: Alpha Agency—a fresh identity that sets the stage for an exciting future. In September, we were proud to share the news we had joined the Alpha Group, a leading global provider of specialist consulting services for the financial services industry.
Never underestimate how easy it is for prospective clients to exit your website, especially those who are merely curious. Even people who are motivated and genuinely interested in your products and services will be put off by a clunky experience. Afterall, “if this is what their website is like, how good can their service be?”
In this episode we are joined by Nick Pilkington, partner at White Marble Consulting (now known as Alpha Agency). Listen to his five factors for success when it comes to pitching.
The greatest ambassadors for your brand are your employees. Therefore, it is vital that they have some emotional connection with its vision and objectives, not just your products and services. They must be able to talk about your distinctive value-add with relative ease and confidence. But that is rarely the case.
Sitting through some presentations can feel like watching a slideshow of someone’s holiday photos. Your enthusiasm will never match theirs. It is incredibly difficult to create a set of slides that introduces your company’s brand story and presents the virtues of the product you are selling without them becoming too wordy, long or complicated.