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How can we keep leaders under control when it comes to ESG?

So the whole world has gone mad about sustainability and ESG. It really has. Every firm I know, in every sector, is obsessing about how

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Paul Lindsell October 14, 2024
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Pour Femme

Weekly PR and marketing reads for the women’s health & femtech community

This short weekly email aims to provide insider tips and strategies to empower organisations in boosting their presence and making a meaningful impact in healthcare.

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Sarah Nurgat September 26, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Sales and Marketing still don’t understand one another!

I was running a combined training session the other day, and the eternal gulf of understanding between marketing and sales was once again apparent. You

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Paul Lindsell September 26, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Where’s the tax coming from?

I’ve been musing on the Government’s ‘black hole’ of £20+ billion. Setting aside any debate over whether it was the last lot’s fault, or whether

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Paul Lindsell September 19, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Sales and Marketing – Global or local control?

Yesterday I had the same conversation twice. In the morning it was with a major US medtech company. In the afternoon, it was with a

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Paul Lindsell September 12, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Who’s responsible for ESG communications consistency?

More and more firms are reporting their sustainability credentials in a bid to raise capital on the markets. We know what’s driving this – the

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Paul Lindsell September 5, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

How widely do you consult stakeholders when putting together a marketing initiative?

Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Everyone with an interest must surely be consulted? Yet we know that this way lies sclerosis and disaster! Let’s start with

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Paul Lindsell August 29, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Do you believe in business research panels?

If you want to research business opinion (as opposed to consumer) then surely you can find a fieldwork company that gives you access to business

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Paul Lindsell August 22, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Can sustainability be forced up and down the supply chain?

I’m reacting, of course, to the glib idea that larger companies can insist their suppliers meet ESG criteria – or lose their business. Sounds great

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Paul Lindsell August 15, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Do you benefit from a research company’s brand?

So I started the week with another case of ‘pass the sick bag, Alice’. For the sixth time in as many weeks, I’ve heard people

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Paul Lindsell August 8, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

How do you inject ESG matters into your customer community?

You all know that we’ve been creating, engaging and managing customer communities for ages, right? Nowadays, though, we are increasingly asked by clients about how

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Paul Lindsell August 1, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Customer communities – is that where marketing’s going?

I hadn’t quite cottoned on to the fact that we’ve been in this market for over a decade, until a friend told me so! We were

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Paul Lindsell July 25, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Look after your employees? Sure. But what about your suppliers?

So we live in a nurturing world, right? Every one of us, if asked, would say that we aim to look after our employees or our

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Paul Lindsell July 18, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Where is corporate sustainability reporting mandatory round the world?

Most of the chat around corporate sustainability reporting focuses on the fact that Europe & the UK have mandatory legislation that forces larger firms to

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Paul Lindsell July 11, 2024
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Our Thoughtsparks

Kartika Zayad: reflections & lessons from 6 months in PR

When I first arrived in the UK from Malaysia to study, back in 2019, a career in PR and marketing was certainly not at the

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Kartika Zayad July 10, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Are we under-spending on healthcare in the UK?

What a topical subject about an institution for which we Brits have so much love and affection (quite rightly). It’s the elections today and all

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Paul Lindsell July 4, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

Are the polls misleading us?

How up to the minute can a Thursday ThoughtSpark be? Next week, the UK goes to the polls. Most pundits seem to agree that the

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Paul Lindsell June 27, 2024
Thursday Thoughtsparks

So, agency people do the work and in-house marketing people instruct… yes?

Well, kind of yes… But also, kind of no. Communicating an understanding to sales and commercial managers of the way in-house marketing professionals and agencies

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Paul Lindsell June 20, 2024
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