‘Ask Beacon’: your new AI companion

Have you ever wishes your Beacon dashboard could talk back? Well, now it can. A new AI feature has officially landed - introducing 'Ask Beacon', a built-in AI chatbot that can help you take your data and analytics to a new level

29 April 2 mins

Spring clean your marketing

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.

22 April 3 mins

Stop planning season feeling like a high wire act

With a clear long-term vision, outcome-focused discipline, joined-up objectives across sales and CX, and a practical governance and measurement framework, marketing becomes a reliable growth engine - not a guessing game.

22 October 3 mins

A symphony of skills: our interdisciplinary approach

Every week, Alpha Agency tackles a truly varied collection of client issues and requests. From brand messaging to website builds, creative refreshes to campaign calendars, and more – our clients’ needs are as complex as the industry within which we operate. In response, we’ve built a team that can fit and flex, with interdisciplinary skills that allow us to address multifaceted marketing requests and pivot our approach when needs change.

15 October 3 mins

‘We want to unleash the potential of Alpha Agency’

“We wanted to maintain the things that make this offering a marketing, brand and creative agency – not a set of management consultants," says Sam Iles, Alpha Group senior partner and global head of Alpha Agency. "So, naturally, we knew that this had to be something that looks and feels quite different to our consulting business.”

10 October 3 mins

How to build an intentional visual brand

Can you truly say that your visual brand is intentional? For many asset and wealth managers, a visual brand…

17 September 3 mins

The ugly truth is that looks matter

If your website doesn’t look attractive, visitors are less likely to stick around long enough to fully digest the content. A bad customer journey is confusing, has mixed signals and offers the user no clear path to get from point A to point B to point C. In this article, we outline some of the key areas companies need to be thinking about when it comes to their websites.

23 July 4 mins

What marketers can learn from industrial design

Things like texture, colour, the shapes used; these, often subtle, elements all become sources of brand strength because, when done well, they are identifiable.

18 July 2 mins

What is good design?

You can tell when something has been shoddily put together or it hasn’t been applied with passion and love. You can see through all of that, and it speaks volumes about the people behind it – both the commissioner and the doer.

10 July 4 mins

Banish boring and put a creative spark in your marketing

Workplace culture isn’t just beanbags and pizza Fridays. It’s how your team behaves when the deadline is tight, the compliance team is in the room and the campaign needs to land yesterday. In our industry, a lot of companies default to “play it safe”. But “safe” doesn’t have to mean boring.

01 May 4 mins