Harnessing your strengths

Veronica Swindale, nesma MD, spoke to Lynsey Martinez MCIM, a recent Level 6 Diploma in Professional Digital Marketing graduate. She started her training with JGA Group, where she completed the Marketing Manager L6 Apprenticeship. This gave her an exemption, so she only needed to complete two modules instead of three, which she did with distinctions. 

Northern Marketing Festival

At the Northern Marketing Festival, you will have multiple sessions led by industry experts, lively discussions on the latest trends, and invaluable networking opportunities. Whether you’re looking to gain new skills, tackle challenges, or simply connect with fellow marketers, this festival has something for everyone.

Marketing with purpose: Building trusted brand experiences

Enjoy this free Webinar Express series from CIM Our industry uses language when we speak about advertising to customers like targeting, reaching, influencing, and converting. Yet, as people, we would rather feel understood, heard, included, and welcomed. Marketing with purpose is a strategy that should be a part of how you evolve your business and customer engagement. It creates a more authentic and genuine brand that increases trust, love and loyalty.

Turn up the volume: Amplify culture and make a difference

Jacobs is a global company with 55,000 employees in over 40 countries delivering solutions to create a more connected, sustainable world. It has transformed itself from a traditional engineering and design business into a high-value technology solutions business with deep capability in energy, intelligence, infrastructure, cybersecurity and space exploration. A vibrant brand and culture are playing an essential role in the transition putting marketing and communications front and centre of the journey to higher growth sectors.    Nigel’s Presentation will cover: • The challenges of integrating new organisational acquisitions in a virtual world • Jacob’s workplace values and culture and how the culture is being amplified • The importance of inclusion and diversity, and the difference between the two • How the marketing and communications teams introduced a new corporate brand positioning to signal the move to solutions and empower employees to tell their story

The session is suitable for anyone in a marketing, communications or business role who wants to learn about how brand, value and culture can help businesses pivot to new services and markets. 

Marketing a sustainable food business: Mackie’s of Scotland

Enjoy this free Webinar Express series from CIM on 27 October 2021. Sustainability has fast become a basic necessity within business amidst a growing need to be environmentally friendly. While the idea of sustainable business is an attractive prospect; implementing the model and knowing how to shout about it comes with its challenges. This interactive session should help you understand the complexities of marketing a sustainable business through the viewpoint of one of the UK’s most committed climate-positive brands.

Top marketing data and analytics trends to drive future growth

Enjoy this free Webinar Express series from CIM on 24 November 2021. Salesforce published the inaugural Marketing Intelligence Report to better understand the perceptions, needs, and challenges from marketers and ad agencies around the world. This webinar will discuss the five key findings of the report to help marketers drive business results in an ever and fast changing world. Speaker:- Jonathan Beeston, Product Marketing Director for Salesforce Marketing Cloud EMEA Jonathan has spent 20 years in the digital marketing space, with a particular focus on data driven marketing in search, social and display advertising channels. His experience includes time at advertising agencies and technology companies advising a wide array of brands.

From haha to aha: Insight, serendipity and humour – CIM Marketing Club

CIM Marketing Club. Anthony Tasgal will deliver a paean to serendipity, insight and wit in a world obsessed with rationality, KPIs, metrics and ‘tick-boxing’. He’ll cover 3 broad areas: Why so serious? The arithmocracy, the obsessive worship of data and facts and what behavioural economics shows us about the power of engaging emotions. From haha to Aha: What can humour teach us about the identification and generation of insight. What do M. Night Shyamalan’s films, Schrödinger’s cat and a goldfish tell us about insight? Not just what insight is, but how it feels.

Binge marketing: The best scenario for building your brand – CIM Marketing Club

CIM Marketing Club. Binge marketing is all about applying the techniques and tactics the creators of films and series use to tell their story and build their audiences. And that is exactly what marketers need: better stories and growing audiences. Carlijn Postma has marketers and entrepreneurs look at their own organisation as if it were an amazing Netflix or television series. She utilises the same principles that are used in Hollywood to help organisations build their audience. This phenomenon, binge marketing, is becoming increasingly popular. Carlijn will show you what marketers can learn from the creators of films and series. What techniques and tactics are they using to create consistent and compelling stories? How do they attract and retain an audience? How can marketers use that to their benefit?

Latest trends in digital marketing 2021 – CIM Marketing Club

What is the CIM Marketing Club? The CIM Marketing Club has been created to help university students get the most from their CIM Accredited Degree and prepare them for a career in marketing. To complement students’ academic studies, the CIM Marketing Club runs a series of webinars designed to share the latest thinking, trends and techniques in real-world marketing delivered by expert practitioners. In this highly practical session, award-winning author and speaker Daniel Rowles, will guide you through the latest trends in digital marketing. The session will cover topics like influencer marketing, latest trends in podcasting and video, as well the latest developments in social media.  You’ll leave with tools and techniques you can take away and use straight away, and every attendee will be provided with the latest Digital Marketing Toolkit, a guide to the best free digital marketing tools.