Why Is Most Digital Marketing Total Horse Shit?

"Why Is Most Digital Marketing Total Horse Shit?" Marcus Hemsley is co-founder at The Fountain Partnership. Marcus and I met 14 years ago when I advised him to get some experience of life and business before becoming a coach. Thankfully he listened and spared the world another NLP coach and established a fantastic agency which to date is the only ever winner of Google’s Global Award for Growing Businesses Online. Marcus and I discuss why so much money is squandered on bad digital marketing, and what causes businesses to keep throwing good money after bad. We explore why you need to think as your customer and put in the hard miles of research, planning, testing, speaking to and listening to customers to make your marketing timely, relevant and valuable enough to drive buyer desirable behaviour at each stage of the funnel. We question why vanity metrics are prioritised over outcomes for clients, and discuss how Digital Marketing can work exceptionally well for some businesses when they go back to the first principles of business growth. We also explore the interplay between marketing and sales, leadership and management culture, the power of collaboration and the critical importance of building your business around your customer's success and delivering their outcomes. Marcus is also a committed environmentalist and we discuss his initiative to encourage individuals and businesses to plant 1 million trees each. Having only launched in April they already have 23 million trees pledged with 2.5million already planted. Contact Marcus via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcushemsley/ or [email protected] Websites fountainpartnership.co.uk/ (Fountain Partnership ) milliontreepledge.org/ (Million Tree Pledge Site)   If you found this episode helpful then please think of one person who would also benefit from it and share it with them   --   Contact me via DM or email [email protected]