Brands & #BlackLivesMatter – how companies have navigated a shift in culture
Black Lives Matter is an incredibly important conversation playing out in social media at the moment, one that brands feel compelled to enter into. Which brands have done this thoughtfully and which have stumbled? I consider three companies’ responses to #BLM and what we can…
Stay Clear – Why clear language is vital during a crisis
Stay Alert. It’s the kind of slogan you might expect to see plastered on the side of a motorway bridge to warn truckers not to fall asleep at the wheel. Or on promotional cans of energy drinks given out to feverish university students in the…
Australia vs Google and Facebook – COVID-19 Edition
During this unprecedented global crisis, Australia has become an unlikely beacon of hope. After a devastating summer of bush fires, where the government response was too slow and ineffective, COVID-19 presented a new problem and this government was not going to be caught out again….
Five questions for five digital marketing graduates
At Tug we know the value that graduates bring to any company. Every year we take on graduates through our Grad Scheme. We believe that investing in new people creates industry experts and that our graduate training programme offers the tools necessary for them to…
Knowing When and How to Expand Your SaaS Internationally (Part 2/2)
As a successful SaaS publisher, no doubt you already have your business’s core markets worked out. You know your highest revenue drivers; you know your areas of lowest churn and where you have a fair share of voice. But how do you find pockets of…
Acquisition, Conversion and Retention: get your KPIs right and the sales will take care of themselves (Part 1/2)
For such a snappy acronym, SaaS maps out an increasingly vast business. The subscription software model has conquered the global workplace in the past decade, and Software as a Service describes a multitude of cloud-hosted apps in an industry whose revenues Gartner expects to grow…
7 tips for first-timers at BrightonSEO
This coming BrightonSEO will be my third time attending the event, which by no means makes me an expert. However, it does mean I can recall when I myself was a first-timer. Now with two events under my belt, I have valuable wisdom to impart…
Will people still care about cars? 3 things we learned at Tug Life IV: Automotive
Self-driving cars, population growth, pollution and congestion – the automotive industry faces some major challenges looking ahead to the future. But cars remain a vital part of everyday life. They get us from A to B, they say something about who we are, and apart…
3 Key lessons from Tug Life Day 2: Data and Insight
Tug Life IV is underway, and it’s already shaping up to be a huge success! If you missed yesterday’s sessions, which focused on the theme of Humans Vs Machines, you can find out what happened in our round up. Day 2 at Tug Life is themed…
Tug Life IV Day 1: People, Work and Technology
Tug Life IV is underway! We’ve already heard from our first round of speakers at our session Humans, Life and Machines. The second session of the day focuses on how technology will impact our working lives. Will machines take all our jobs? Or will there…