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- 0:00This is the Late Late Lunch Show with Rod Maxwell. Supported by... That's for,
- 0:07you, Rod. Towerbird Learning in Nature's Playground. So today on the Late Late
- 0:11Lunch Show, we're having one of those business discussions and I'm delighted
- 0:15to be speaking to a business that's started up in Altrincham in the area of marketing.
- 0:20And we've got now a number of companies have come into the area and I'm speaking
- 0:24to Joe Perotta, who runs the business, and to find out what Marmalade Marketing
- 0:29is all about, why they've chosen Ultringham, and what's actually marketing like.
- 0:34So Jo, you're the managing director.
- 0:37Yes, I am founder and managing director. So I've been marketing 26 years for
- 0:44my sins and founded my business. This is our 10th year.
- 0:48So yeah, good stint. I can imagine that the world of marketing has changed dramatically
- 0:56because the relationship with the customer has changed dramatically.
- 1:01There's so much more data. You guys must be able to target so much now that
- 1:07in the past you wouldn't have been able to do.
- 1:10Absolutely. I think I started my marketing career in 2001.
- 1:15So pre-social media, Facebook was only an idea probably at that point.
- 1:22Peer-to-peer social networking wasn't a thing.
- 1:26And so when I started my career, it was just very, very much a paper-based approach.
- 1:35So there was lots of stuffing of envelopes and direct marketing campaigns things
- 1:39like that with the onset of digital media,
- 1:43we've earned our stripes as we've gone because we have no textbook to be able
- 1:49to learn from this it was basically getting stuck in and trying to learn as you go,
- 1:54so lots of lessons learned good and bad,
- 1:56no i'm of a certain age 70s kid and and i When I think about marketing,
- 2:02I often think about the big brands, the way they captured your attention.
- 2:07I'm thinking about the Mars a day slogan. I'm thinking about Coca-Cola.
- 2:10I'm thinking about Levi jeans.
- 2:12And often what they were doing was selling you a story, selling you almost a lifestyle.
- 2:18And it came with maybe a music track and that added to the whole brand.
- 2:24And therefore the brand became cool, maybe sexy, but you could identify with it.
- 2:31Has that basic premise of marketing changed in any way or are you able to be
- 2:36much more targeted about it because you know more about the customer?
- 2:40Both. We have much more technology available to us, much more data.
- 2:45The technology allows us to manipulate that data, learn from it.
- 2:50We call it mass micro-personalization.
- 2:54So, hi, Joe, you get it from your bank, your, you know, Marks and Spencers,
- 2:58whatever. All of these brands are making the experience more personal because it wants to create a,
- 3:05that story, to your point. And especially with the onset of AI,
- 3:10the overuse of AI content, brands are becoming much more vanilla.
- 3:15And so it's never been more important for a brand to tell their story in an authentic way.
- 3:21And traditionally in the past, maybe pre-digital, a lot of it went,
- 3:25a lot of marketing and advertising spend went through traditional channels,
- 3:30the newspapers, the magazines, also TV.
- 3:33It seems nowadays that brands can almost create their own events.
- 3:37They can almost get to their customers more directly than themselves.
- 3:42Has that changed just the nature of how you work and how you distribute the message?
- 3:47I think the traditional principles, first principles of marketing still apply
- 3:53because you're having to create, like we've mentioned, the story,
- 3:58the value proposition, what's important and different about your business compared to a competitor.
- 4:04So whilst you have the ability to speak directly to your audience,
- 4:08we call it an ideal customer profile, for example, so are a gazillion other businesses, right?
- 4:14So how does yours stand out from that absolute competitive landscape,
- 4:20which it's never been more competitive. It's very, very challenging for some companies to be heard.
- 4:27So brand awareness is still very fundamental to the essence of a brand and building
- 4:33a brand and making it valuable.
- 4:36And back in the 80s and 90s, I guess we as consumers weren't as aware of how
- 4:42some of these processes worked and we weren't probably sharing as much data as they are today,
- 4:50and we probably were a bit more naive in some of our understanding of marketing,
- 4:56Do you think today that the average consumer is a bit more savvy,
- 5:02can tell when they're being targeted?
- 5:05I don't mean that in a negative way, but I'm therefore a bit more skeptical
- 5:09about the sort of marketing messages in the past would have worked.
- 5:14Absolutely. The market's saturated with brands wanting to create noise for themselves.
- 5:19And what happens is this just white noise. Nobody's hearing anything or seeing anything anymore.
- 5:24We're all bombarded if you think about your own inbox and you know that your
- 5:29post box might be less at home in terms of physical letters but actually your inbox is has blown up,
- 5:35so there are ways in which companies have to adhere the gdpr for example is
- 5:42a legislation and that ensures ethical use of data and marketing to individuals so,
- 5:51we have to as marketers be respectful of that privacy.
- 5:56If somebody doesn't want to
- 5:57be contacted, we respond to that and we'll unsubscribe those individuals.
- 6:02But yeah, I think it's just some messages will still resonate with audiences
- 6:08and some won't. And word of mouth media, word of mouth messaging is very important too for brands.
- 6:14That's where some of the storytelling really comes to life.
- 6:18So much I want to talk to you about. I also want to talk about you and I want
- 6:21to talk about Marmalade as well.
- 6:23So we'll come back to the theory of marketing because it is fascinating it's
- 6:27all about human behavior isn't it it is yeah.
- 6:32It is it's all psychology really but we're gonna we're talking today to joe
- 6:36from she's the management director of marmalade
- 6:38marketing one of the newest companies to join us here in altering i'm going
- 6:42to find out more about marmalade and why they chose altering take a break be back in a minute,
- 6:48You're listening to The Late Late Lunch Show. Back to the garden childcare,
- 6:53where little explorers grow naturally.
- 6:55You're listening to The Late Late Lunch Show on Radio Alty's Rod Maxwell.
- 6:58And on the lunch discussion today, I'm delighted to have Jo Perotta,
- 7:02who's the managing director of Marmalade Marketing.
- 7:06They're in the town. Now, Jo, how long is it since you arrived in Altyom?
- 7:12So we're newbies in Alty. So we've been here just a couple of months in Station
- 7:16House, which is an incredible office the first floor has all been refurbished
- 7:22so it's serviced offices for businesses like ours,
- 7:25but before that previously I was in Hale for nine.
- 7:29And a half years so long time so we've been this is our 10th year and we celebrated by moving to a much
- 7:38nicer office for us do you know it never ceases to amaze me just the industry
- 7:44the entrepreneurialism
- 7:46the business that's in and around this area.
- 7:49And often you don't know it's there because they don't have a big sign on the
- 7:53door or a big sign overhead.
- 7:54But this area does seem to punch above its weight, if you like,
- 7:59in terms of having these types of industries. Absolutely.
- 8:04I've worked and lived in Alty for 30 years almost. So all the businesses,
- 8:09I worked in-house as a marketer for an international recruitment business.
- 8:13So I led their marketing function for 10 years.
- 8:15Then I moved to another PR firm in Hale for three years. Then I set up my own business.
- 8:22So yeah, entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the north.
- 8:26It's challenging out there and we'll go on to that a bit later.
- 8:31But yeah, it's a great area to be in. In terms of your business,
- 8:37what intrigues me is how do you actually attract customers? And you were just
- 8:41talking there that word of mouth amongst consumers is really important.
- 8:47Do you find it a little bit like you're having to consult yourself thinking
- 8:51about how you market Marmalade, for example?
- 8:55Absolutely. I think the networks we build here, we're a team of 10 and we use
- 9:01freelancers, a bank of freelancers as and when we need them as five or six.
- 9:06We've all got incredible networks. And what we find is we don't really often,
- 9:10I say we, business owners, don't leverage those.
- 9:14So it's really important that
- 9:16the way we do it, we treat Marmalade Marketing and myself as a client.
- 9:21So I get to use the services of my own business but I don't see it that way
- 9:26I see it as a partnership where my team will deliver the the strategy and the consultancy campaigns,
- 9:33and we like to meet people and get in front of people so we're in London next
- 9:37week for a couple of days doing events with a very well-known bank and a global
- 9:41insurance company and we're a tiny business in in
- 9:45Ultron but we're punching way above our weight because of leveraging those networks
- 9:50again a strategic partner in Australia they're coming over for a couple of events
- 9:54in Manchester and London in October,
- 9:57so we will gain a bit more brand awareness like you say there's no big shiny
- 10:02bright sparkly light on on the door but through network and a good reputation we we get known.
- 10:10Is this I mean as an area it's got good transport links you're obviously working
- 10:15internationally and nationally,
- 10:17and it has good office space and it often it also offers a sort of leisure proposition
- 10:22to your staff as well for now which is important to them but what what's it like in terms of,
- 10:28getting the right caliber of person to come and join and what do you look for
- 10:33and when you're looking for somebody joining marmalade.
- 10:35You know, it's never for me. I founded the business on a credit card and a laptop
- 10:40and network. That was it.
- 10:42Two kids, you know, to kind of keep the lights on. And I thought this is,
- 10:47I just have to do this. I've always worked. I've always worked hard.
- 10:50I work for an incredible business and a CEO that really trained me to,
- 10:56you know, be unemotional about business, but give it your all.
- 11:00And so I've always had that mindset. I've never looked at qualifications.
- 11:05I have a degree I have um master's I've gone down the academic route as well
- 11:11as kind of put everything into my career but I don't expect
- 11:15everyone to have that all I want is for someone say for example somebody locally
- 11:22decides not to go to college or they've just finished college and they're looking
- 11:26in the world of work and thinking I've not got a chance here I don't know how to even start.
- 11:31Volunteer if you're, it could be anything, any job that gives you responsibility
- 11:39of picking up the phone. You wouldn't believe how many people are afraid of
- 11:43picking up the phone and speaking to people.
- 11:45And you're able to just hold a conversation. That's been really powerful in
- 11:50terms of culture fit and culture contribution in the business.
- 11:55Doesn't matter. A lot of other businesses will say the opposite to me.
- 11:59No, if somebody's done a degree, it shows a commitment to learning and you're more structured.
- 12:05I think it's the person fit, really, that's important for me.
- 12:09We're talking to Jo Perotta. She's the Managing Director of Marmalade Marketing.
- 12:12They've just come into Ultringham.
- 12:14We're talking about marketing. We're talking about why Ultringham.
- 12:17And I want to come and talk about marketing a little bit more,
- 12:21Jo, because I'm really fascinated about the data-driven side of it.
- 12:26And, of course, we all have this impression that marketing companies are all
- 12:30lobbies that sit around and drink champagne. It's nothing like that,
- 12:33I can imagine. So we'll find out more about that in a couple of minutes' time.
- 12:39You're listening to The Late Late Lunch Show. Back to the Garden Childcare,
- 12:43where little explorers grow naturally.
- 12:46Joe, what do clients want from you guys? I mean, I guess there's the thing where
- 12:52something wrong happens and they're trying to come back from a negative position.
- 12:56You might have a new brand launch, you might have a new business launch.
- 12:59What is the typical type of scenarios that you work with and what do you do with brands?
- 13:06Well, I think with the situation, well, since COVID, then we had a hyper growth
- 13:13phase. So lots of businesses did very well because they had saved some cash,
- 13:18they had furlough loans, all of that.
- 13:20And then that fell into an absolute, fell off a cliff.
- 13:24And I call it the COVID coma. So we've had that for about two and a half years or so.
- 13:29It's incredibly challenging for brands to not just be heard like we spoke about
- 13:34building that brand awareness but lead generation and everyone wants leads but
- 13:39there's this misunderstanding of marketing should return immediately,
- 13:43if there's no baseline no clarity of what conversion looks like for a brand
- 13:51say for example it's a recruitment business that's one of the sectors we specialize
- 13:55in as well as tech and professional services.
- 13:59But if we talk about recruitment and they've got three audiences,
- 14:02this is what's tricky because you've got clients, candidates and colleagues,
- 14:06which is your internal teams.
- 14:08So they're marketing to three audiences continuously.
- 14:12So how do you prioritize? So our job is to create a strategic plan that the
- 14:18client can then prioritize.
- 14:20And if it's lead generation, we create a growth machine around that.
- 14:24So marketing now is much more aligned to business goals and objectives,
- 14:29sales goals and plans, not just to keep the lights on for some businesses.
- 14:34But to launch in other territories, lots of companies are now launching in Europe
- 14:38and the U.S. because the U.K. market is just too stagnant. Companies are running out of money.
- 14:45And unless the government does something pretty quick, there's going to be a
- 14:48lot of pain out there, of which some of our clients are going through that.
- 14:52Is it the case that with digitization and social media, et cetera,
- 14:56that for a while companies thought, we can do this ourselves, we can save some money?
- 15:01And they reduced their marketing spend and they're now maybe feeling the effects
- 15:06of that and coming back and looking at your services in a different way.
- 15:10Was there an effect of that?
- 15:13Always. Marketing has always been a market that has suffered disruption,
- 15:18but actually that's what makes us brilliant marketers because we respond.
- 15:22We are quicker than ChatGPT to be able to create a strategy or a solution that
- 15:27we know we did for another client that worked in a certain territory.
- 15:30And and just leaning into that a little bit with ai there is such overuse anyone
- 15:36will just read a book or on seo aeg or whatever it is and they become the expert overnight yeah,
- 15:42well actually there's so much false confidence out there and i'm lucky enough
- 15:47to be the resident business lecturer at the university of manchester talking to their masters on
- 15:53digital marketing and the students about actually how to protect and insulate
- 15:58your profession because marketing is a science. I have a BSc.
- 16:04People will think it's an art. They always think marketing is an art.
- 16:07It is, but it's also a science. That's the data. That's the use of technology,
- 16:11activation of databases, for example.
- 16:15So yeah, it's very challenging now for marketing professionals,
- 16:20but AI isn't going to destroy this industry. It's actually going to make it
- 16:25stronger and the role more important.
- 16:28I wanted to dig into that a little bit more because I think people think that
- 16:32AI is, they fear it almost.
- 16:34I have been there a little bit myself in the past and I'm thinking,
- 16:37this will make me redundant. So I'm interested in picking, I want to pick that up with you.
- 16:42And I also want to talk about what makes a good marketeer. What makes a good
- 16:45person coming into this industry?
- 16:47I'm delighted today to be speaking with Jo Perotas. She's the Manager and Director
- 16:50of Marmalade Marketing. They're in Altrium.
- 16:52They're busy nationally, internationally as well. Delighted to be speaking to
- 16:57her. We'll come back in a couple of minutes time.
- 17:00You're listening to The Late Late Lunch Show. Back to the Garden Childcare,
- 17:05where little explorers grow naturally.
- 17:07So, Joe, as somebody who used to be in professional services,
- 17:11I'm interested to your point about people's academic experience and coming into the firm.
- 17:17Because in some ways, somebody used to always say to me, curiosity is really quite important.
- 17:24Because if you go in and assume too much about your clients and what they want
- 17:30then you jump ahead too many steps and you're not listening you haven't asked them with
- 17:36is that somewhat similar in marketing but then you have to have the creative
- 17:40side of actually being able to turn a need into a vision if you like,
- 17:46absolutely I think the need would be that as a marketing function we solve business
- 17:53problems so it's either brand awareness lead generation, account-based marketing,
- 17:59where they're really having to,
- 18:00focus mode into a certain area.
- 18:05It's incredibly challenging to be able to solve all of that at the same time.
- 18:11Professional services, for example, all the legalities, all the regulation, all of,
- 18:18the ways in which you have to operates can be quite heavy lifting for marketing
- 18:24teams. So lots of considerations.
- 18:27Somebody new into that kind of environment might be overwhelmed straight away.
- 18:32But I always say to my teams, and I always have done since I started in marketing,
- 18:38I worked in a big issue in London, then Manchester for my very first marketing jobs.
- 18:44And I would always say, can I help you? Is there anything else I can do?
- 18:50Was that piece of work up to or did it meet your expectation?
- 18:54I would be very direct and not be shy away from.
- 18:59Difficult conversations because it's just a conversation. You have to take the emotion out of it.
- 19:06And especially if you're new into a role, if it was me now, I would say,
- 19:10okay, how long is my probation if you were lucky enough to get an internship
- 19:14or even non-paid or your first job?
- 19:17If my first three months, I would ask for a work list. What are the things that
- 19:25you want me to concentrate on straight away?
- 19:27I don't want to be bugging you all the time, but I want to be busy.
- 19:31So what things would you like me to start looking at immediately in my first week?
- 19:36Because busy teams, we're all keeping the lights on. We're all challenged. We're all under strain.
- 19:42And somebody new coming in, it is a disruption because you're having to spend
- 19:46time. And, you know, that's why some businesses would be a bit more reluctant
- 19:50to hire because they're scrapping at the moment.
- 19:53The idea of I'm here to solve your problems. Just give me a work list.
- 19:57Let me get on with that for a couple of days.
- 19:59And then you're almost helping to lead the way you're being managed as well. Don't be afraid of that.
- 20:07When you're in the advisory sector, which essentially you are,
- 20:11the client may have brought you in and said, we're going to work with Marmalade.
- 20:16But then you've got to actually impress and you've got to form a relationship
- 20:20with the people on the ground the marketing teams the product teams etc.
- 20:25That's when you have to as you and your staff have to understand.
- 20:32And build a personal relationship based on credibility based on authenticism based on
- 20:39honesty and based on the ability to deliver and that's before you get into all
- 20:45the technical aspects of what marketing is.
- 20:47I mean, that advisory role, it can be very difficult, can't it?
- 20:52Yeah, we absolutely love it because there's nothing we can't market.
- 20:57We are B2B marketing specialists. We're not FMCG, fast moving consumer goods.
- 21:03We're not kind of fashion brands or anything like that, not B2C.
- 21:07We're B2B business to business, which means we help businesses to create more
- 21:14demand for their professional service.
- 21:17So it may be a merger and acquisition company, a technical business,
- 21:21a consultancy firm, all of those kind of companies, we will help to create a
- 21:27strategic marketing plan that meets the goal.
- 21:31So whether it is lead general awareness generating, we will do that for them.
- 21:35That's interesting because I think when we think about marketing,
- 21:38we often think about B2C, we're
- 21:40thinking about Heinz, we're thinking about those consumer goods, etc.
- 21:44We're thinking about white goods and we're thinking about the high street but
- 21:48um to your point then b2b this is when it could be i guess a professional it
- 21:52could be a law firm looking for business in legal services it could be an it,
- 21:57services firm looking for consultancy work,
- 22:00it it could be an asset company looking to basically sell assets into something
- 22:05that's a totally different marketplace isn't it because it's not mass market
- 22:10they don't have lots and lots of customers but,
- 22:13are you able to are you able to understand how that business environment might
- 22:18be changing and when somebody might be ready for a change if that makes sense?
- 22:24Absolutely I think through the technology we're HubSpot Solutions Partners they
- 22:28have incredible native AI tools within the technology and we are able as marketers to,
- 22:37translate the data into meaningful insights to show we call it intent signals
- 22:42so we're looking for intent signals and there's lots i won't bore you with it
- 22:46now maybe we do an another episode on this yeah but yeah it keeps us busy,
- 22:52and i'm going to mention something because i've just looked at your website
- 22:55and it came up with monetize your crm with smart scalable marketing,
- 23:00i i think back in the 90s and noughties a lot of brands didn't know what they
- 23:05were sitting on in terms of the data and what they could do with it.
- 23:09But that's started to change quite rapidly.
- 23:12But is it still the case that there are big areas of,
- 23:17obviousness but they're not being properly channeled into they're not being
- 23:22properly thought about so there's still white space that the likes of yourself
- 23:26with a sort of analytical proposition can go up,
- 23:30Absolutely. The amount of, for example, using recruitment sector,
- 23:35again, as an example, the amount of data that's held within their CRM,
- 23:40the customer relations management tool, but they don't use it as a traditional CRM.
- 23:44It's just storing data. It goes in and it goes nowhere.
- 23:48Yeah, it's a black hole. It's not a CRM. It's a black hole.
- 23:51Now because of the importance of digital digital marketing email marketing making
- 23:58sure the segmentation is absolutely
- 24:02spot on that's when the brand will start to see more success and there's great
- 24:06ai tools that can help segment data you know claude for example is brilliant at segmenting but
- 24:14proceed with caution because unless you have a custom Claude or
- 24:20Chatty Beauty for example that data is going out there in the world so you're
- 24:23giving away your data you're giving away your,
- 24:26brands can't get their heads around this.
- 24:28And segmentation is a bit like the cash fridge time poor type the sort of the
- 24:33categorizations that the big I mean the loyalty schemes
- 24:36did with supermarkets you had then the different types of customers you could
- 24:40even target the stores they were going to and the offered you would give them.
- 24:45But they were well ahead in that and Americans were more ahead than the UK.
- 24:51But you still see companies, especially in the B2B space, that are still needing
- 24:55some support in that area.
- 24:57Yeah, it's really surprising because marketing, this is the thing,
- 25:01there's always a job to be done. And if things go wrong, It's always marketing's fault.
- 25:06So we have a bad rep as a function, but then clients have called us a necessary
- 25:13evil in the past. And I love that. It's the greatest compliment I've ever been
- 25:18given because they get it.
- 25:20You know what I mean? They get the importance and that's all I care about.
- 25:24So, yeah, there's still a huge misunderstanding of the power of data in a CRM.
- 25:29And we call it golden source data because eventually data will have a value on a balance sheet.
- 25:38So there is no business owner or board of directors that shouldn't be concentrating
- 25:44on how to segment and how to protect the value that that will have on the balance sheet.
- 25:49If they were to sell for example in the future that golden source data means
- 25:54it is absolutely bang on it's accurate,
- 25:57the the brand the company is nurturing that data not just using it as kind of
- 26:03a dumping ground the crm as this black hole we mentioned and a simple question
- 26:07like do you know your customer who are they what do they want.
- 26:12I'm sure there'll be somebody that says of course we You know,
- 26:15we know them all, but actually when you dig into it, it might be, do you really?
- 26:20Spot on. Absolutely spot on. Do you know your customer? And also,
- 26:25do you know your sales process?
- 26:27Nine times out of 10, no. There is partly a formal process. Then there's human. Of course there is.
- 26:34But there's often, because of the onset of AI as well and the tools and the
- 26:38adoption of using some of these tools,
- 26:41sales processes now that will work with marketing and operations are not,
- 26:47planned out they're not formal it kind of grows legs and runs off without any planning
- 26:53well i'm going to take a break and wrap up with joe parada because we're just
- 26:56about out of time i could go on forever i think well i think we'll do a series
- 27:00joe if you were up for that but uh it's been
- 27:03it's been fantastic talking to you we'll take a break and we'll wrap up with
- 27:06joe parada she's the manager director of marmalade marketing based here in altering
- 27:10and i will be back in a couple of minutes,
- 27:13you're listening to the late late lunch show with back to the garden childcare
- 27:18where little explorers grow naturally.
- 27:21You're listening to Radio Alty, it's the Late Late Lunch Show,
- 27:23and the business lunch discussion today has been with one of Ultringham's newest
- 27:27businesses, Marmalade Marketing, and I'm speaking with Joe Prosa,
- 27:31who's the managing director of it.
- 27:33You know, there was something that came to mind there, Joe, and I wish I had,
- 27:38remembered it. That's my poor memory.
- 27:40But your area is fascinating, and I can imagine,
- 27:46and what I'm hearing is that the skill set that you require from your team.
- 27:53Has changed dramatically over time because you still have to have an art of
- 27:57selling and building a relationship, but you really need to understand data
- 28:02and patterns. Would that be right?
- 28:05Absolutely. I think it's spot on. And this is a really important message for
- 28:12any building marketers out there.
- 28:15We are under enormous pressure from day one as marketers to return on investment.
- 28:20Return on any kind of investment within marketing whether that's campaign based or a website or whatever,
- 28:26but never was i taught at university or any of the courses i've been completed
- 28:31since that roi is a guaranteed in marketing and then henry ford back you know in the 40s would say 50,
- 28:40of marketing works but we don't know which half,
- 28:42now we do now we do and we only know this because we can create direct through
- 28:50data and through the right systems and the right dashboards that we build for our B2B clients,
- 28:56direct, indirect, and what's now called proxy metrics.
- 29:01So proxy metrics are all the little intense signals that we can identify that
- 29:07will really surprise a client. So it might be used to be maybe.
- 29:13Nine touch points in a b2b sales cycle now we have some clients where the 39 touch points a touch,
- 29:23point might be they read a blog they went on your website they then went on
- 29:26a social ad they then went back to the website a week later,
- 29:32so the entry point isn't the conversion point so through proxy metrics as marketers
- 29:38we can say hey yeah we didn't return a gazillion quid to one pound which is what you want,
- 29:43but we've identified the secret source of what works for nurturing that conversion and and.
- 29:51Is i guess we often see.
- 29:53Marketing about being revenue growth income growth because it's it's associated with new brands or,
- 30:00or whatever but is there any ever a time when you're doing a piece of work that
- 30:05is looking at pure repositioning or actually cost management for example.
- 30:12Absolutely. Yes, we do what's called a 4D diagnostic. So we go into brands and we will troubleshoot.
- 30:20We'll do a strategic session with them to understand how their marketing function
- 30:26is working, how the business is aligned from sales, operations and marketing.
- 30:32And often that might mean we come in to oversee the function for a while we
- 30:37we reshape it we mold it to be ready for the new era of marketing because often
- 30:45in-house marketers don't get the opportunity to learn about all of the,
- 30:51evolution of marketing really okay well look we're out of time but I if um if
- 30:57people want to find out more about you obviously you're on you're on the web it's.
- 31:02A marmalade marketing.co.uk do you run any do you run any sessions do you run
- 31:08anything where you're you're doing awareness sessions right is there anything
- 31:11out there that people can find out a little bit more,
- 31:14yeah absolutely visit our website we have an events page on there,
- 31:19we are going to do more generalist webinars for example drop-ins for brands
- 31:25any local company in Ultram like I say we this is our 10th year so we're giving
- 31:30some freebies away so we'll give some free consultancy sessions,
- 31:34to businesses you just want to you know have the the question answered hey how
- 31:39do I even bring AI safely into my business how how do I create more revenue
- 31:44from from what I've already got in my database, really happy to.
- 31:49Offer that to the listeners. That is a fantastic offer.
- 31:52MarmaladeMarketing.co.uk is where you need to go to.
- 31:56You've been listening to Jo Parada. She's the managing director of the firm.
- 31:59Jo, it's been an absolute pleasure.
- 32:01Thank you for joining me. Thank you so much, Rod.
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