The Marketing Society feature Fiona Blades on the hidden drivers of persuasion in retail banking.

Five rules to make a positive impact on brand consideration in your brand

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Find out which bank really is No1 in our article on the Financial Services Forum

First Direct win out when you look at customer satisfaction, however, when you look at customer experience or brand experience, it’s Nationwide that’s the star performer.

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If You Want Brand Growth, Use Experience Driven Marketing

We are overloaded with data – it’s coming from our call centers, our websites, our retail partners, our media agencies. Yet in spite of being awash with data, we have a data black hole. We’ve got GRPs, click-throughs, Likes, Share of Voice to help..

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The Retail Revolution: Success in the New Era

We are surrounded by headlines like “America is facing a ‘retail refugee crisis’ as thousands of stores shut down and millions of people become the ‘blacksmiths of their era’” (Business Insider, September 2017). We knew that digital would transform..

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Transforming Retail Experiences: How to Deliver and Measure Outstanding Experiences in the New Bricks and Mortar World

Fiona Blades, President and CEO of MESH Experience, recently had the opportunity to speak at the P2P Institute’s League of Leaders in Chicago. This event is one of many, as Fiona has been traveling and spreading the word of a revolution in market..

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The Retail Revolution: How New Technology is Optimising Real-Time Experience Data in Measuring ROI

The future of retail is transforming before our eyes at a speed we may not have imagined possible. “America is facing a ‘retail refugee crisis’ as thousands of stores shut down and millions of people become the ‘blacksmiths of their era’” (Business..

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Is Share of Experience the NEW Share of Voice?

Share of voice (SOV) has always been an important metric for marketers to monitor. It helps us to understand how prominently we are promoting our brand versus competitors. But SOV only measures what we, as marketers, push out.

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Context is Queen

If Content is King, Context is certainly Queen and we have been increasingly looking at the context of advertising as well as the content. For an advertiser, avoiding unsavoury content is clearly important, and this has been much discussed over the..

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Cranfield School of Management Presentation: The Future of Marketing

Gone are the days when a great product alone drove profits. Marketers today need to consider every way that people encounter their brand. Great experiences creating real value for people build advocacy, which leads to acquisition, as well as..

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Choosing the Right Benchmarks

Benchmarks are an important part of our decision-making. However, pick the wrong benchmarks, or contextualise them misguidedly, and you risk making the wrong decisions.

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Triple the Impact: The Power of Positive Brand Experiences

Earlier in my career, I was the Planning Director of an Omnicom agency, Claydon Heeley, where I worked on brands like Mercedes-Benz.

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The Future of Brand Tracking

Over the years, questions have increasingly been raised about the viability and ROI of traditional brand health tracking. Brands are asking whether it is cost effective, in relation to the business decisions delivered. They are craving a more..

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