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The B2B customer journey: designing for buying groups

The B2B customer journey for small suppliers: long, multi-person decisions, research done before contact and the website content that serves a buying group.

12 Oct 20268 min read

Put the customer journey into your website brief

How to put the customer journey into a website brief: buyer types, journey maps, key tasks and success measures that help agencies design for buyers.

12 Oct 20268 min read

What journey mapping and journey-led design cost in the UK

Customer journey mapping cost in the UK: indicative ranges for research, mapping, journey fixes and redesigns, what drives the price and what to do yourself.

12 Oct 20268 min read

Customer journey website checklist: 20 checks

A customer journey website checklist: 20 checks across find, orient, compare, commit and return to see whether your site serves buyers at every stage.

12 Oct 20268 min read

Social media marketing vs traditional advertising: what works better for SMEs?

Social media marketing vs traditional advertising for UK SMEs: cost, reach, tracking and trust compared, with a scorecard to pick your lead channel.

09 Oct 202615 min read

What is traditional advertising? A plain guide for small firms

What traditional advertising is, the eight main types a UK small business can buy, what each is good for and how it differs from digital and social media.

09 Oct 20267 min read

Traditional vs digital marketing: where social media fits

Traditional vs digital marketing explained for UK small firms: the channels in each, where social media sits among them and how to decide what comes first.

09 Oct 20266 min read

The advertising channel scorecard: pick where to spend

Score any advertising channel out of 10 on audience, targeting, test cost, tracking and staying power, and choose a lead channel with evidence, not habit.

09 Oct 20267 min read

Is traditional advertising dead? What the UK figures say

Is traditional advertising dead? UK audience and spend figures from Ofcom, AA/WARC and JICMAIL, and what they mean for a small business budget.

09 Oct 20266 min read

Pros and cons of social media marketing for small businesses

The real pros and cons of social media marketing for a UK small business: cost, targeting and feedback against time, reach limits and platform risk.

09 Oct 20266 min read

Pros and cons of traditional advertising for small businesses

The pros and cons of traditional advertising for a UK small business: local presence, attention and trust against cost, slow change and weak tracking.

09 Oct 20266 min read

Paid, owned and earned media explained for small businesses

Paid, owned and earned media explained in plain English, with social media and traditional examples and how a small firm should balance them.

09 Oct 20266 min read

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