Trust or bust

Trust or bust

There’s a shift happening in business right now. Most organisations can feel it. Few can explain it. Growth feels harder. Customers take longer to decide. Loyalty disappears faster than expected. This isn’t a marketing problem. It’s a trust problem. We’re operating in...
Big Business Thinking for Small Business

Big Business Thinking for Small Business

Last November, I spent two weeks pounding New York City footpaths on a scouting mission. My goal: find the new rules of customer connection. Find the clever shifts and deep customer insights that the world’s most competitive market is using to win right now. Because...

The customer segment begging to be seen in 2026

For more than a decade I’ve studied underserved consumer segments—the groups whose needs, motivations and realities are overlooked despite their spending power, influence and loyalty. For 2026, one segment stands out as urgent: parents of neurodivergent children....
Why being in the world beats being in the feed

Why being in the world beats being in the feed

Every so often you read a stat that makes you rethink what you thought you knew about marketing. The latest one to have that effect on me is from the Harvard Business Review. And it’s a doozy. When someone spends just ten minutes interacting with your brand in the...