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How to Build a Brand People Truly Care About: Keller’s Brand Resonance Model

How to Build a Brand People Truly Care About: Keller’s Brand Resonance Model

Learn the four stages that turn awareness into trust, loyalty, and long-term advocacy for your organisation.

Dec 6, 2025

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4 min read

The Secret to Loyal Supporters: Customer Experience Explained

The Secret to Loyal Supporters: Customer Experience Explained

It’s not just ads or sales. Discover the real meaning of marketing — value, customers, and lasting relationships.

Dec 5, 2025

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4 min read

Rethink Value: The Service-Dominant Logic Explained

Rethink Value: The Service-Dominant Logic Explained

Why modern marketing is no longer about products — it’s about relationships, experiences, and co-creating value.

Dec 4, 2025

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5 min read

Set Clear Goals, Get Clear Results: The DAGMAR Framework

Set Clear Goals, Get Clear Results: The DAGMAR Framework

Learn how to define, measure, and improve your advertising and campaign effectiveness with a proven goal-setting model.

Dec 3, 2025

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4 min read

How Supporters Move From Awareness to Action: The Hierarchy of Effects Model

How Supporters Move From Awareness to Action: The Hierarchy of Effects Model

The step-by-step journey people take before they donate, volunteer, or support your cause.

Dec 2, 2025

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5 min read

What Is the Elaboration Likelihood Model? A Simple Guide for Charities

What Is the Elaboration Likelihood Model? A Simple Guide for Charities

It’s not just ads or sales. Discover the real meaning of marketing - value, customers, and lasting relationships.

Dec 1, 2025

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5 min read

Why Messages Succeed - or Fail: The Shannon-Weaver Model

Why Messages Succeed - or Fail: The Shannon-Weaver Model

The classic framework that explains how communication really works and why your message may not land as intended.

Nov 30, 2025

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5 min read

Compete Less, Grow More: Blue Ocean vs Red Ocean Strategy

Compete Less, Grow More: Blue Ocean vs Red Ocean Strategy

Understand the difference between crowded markets and uncontested space and how charities can stand out.

Nov 29, 2025

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4 min read

The SWOT Breakdown Every Charity Should Use

The SWOT Breakdown Every Charity Should Use

A simple but powerful tool to uncover what makes you strong and what could hold you back.

Nov 28, 2025

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4 min read

The External Forces That Shape Every Organisation: PESTEL Analysis

The External Forces That Shape Every Organisation: PESTEL Analysis

Understand the political, economic, social, and environmental forces that influence your marketing decisions.

Nov 27, 2025

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4 min read

Why Some Organisations Thrive: The Resource-Based View Explained

Why Some Organisations Thrive: The Resource-Based View Explained

Discover how internal strengths, not just strategy, determine lasting success for businesses and charities alike.

Nov 22, 2025

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4 min read

The Diffusion of Innovation: Why Some Ideas Spread (and Others Don’t)

The Diffusion of Innovation: Why Some Ideas Spread (and Others Don’t)

Discover how new ideas, products, and campaigns spread and how to inspire adoption for good causes.

Nov 10, 2025

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5 min read

The Psychology Behind Every Sale: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

The Psychology Behind Every Sale: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

From survival to self-actualisation. Learn how every great campaign connects to a human need.

Nov 4, 2025

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5 min read

What is The Psychology Behind Every Yes?

What is The Psychology Behind Every Yes?

Why people intend to act but don’t - and how charities and brands can close that gap ethically.

Oct 31, 2025

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5 min read

Why People Really Buy: Inside the EKB Model of Decision Making

Why People Really Buy: Inside the EKB Model of Decision Making

Understand the psychology behind every purchase, donation, or click and how to influence it ethically

Oct 31, 2025

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4 min read

Why Lasting Relationships Build Stronger Brands, Communities, and Charities

Why Lasting Relationships Build Stronger Brands, Communities, and Charities

Why supporters, donors, and volunteers are more than numbers and how relationships, not transactions, drive real change

Oct 30, 2025

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4 min read

Why Organisations Fail When They Focus on Products, Not People

Why Organisations Fail When They Focus on Products, Not People

How charities can avoid ‘mission myopia’ by focusing on human needs, not just programmes, fundraising, or activities

Oct 30, 2025

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4 min read

Drucker’s Theory of Business & Customer-Centricity

Drucker’s Theory of Business & Customer-Centricity

Peter Drucker’s timeless lesson: success starts with knowing your audience and building everything around their needs.

Oct 21, 2025

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5 min read

How Modern Marketing Became About People, Not Products

How Modern Marketing Became About People, Not Products

Discover how Philip Kotler transformed marketing from selling products into creating value, building relationships, and driving real impact

Oct 15, 2025

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5 min read

How to Align What You Offer with How You Communicate It

How to Align What You Offer with How You Communicate It

For charities, clarity and consistency turn good work into great communication — and great communication into trust.

Oct 12, 2025

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4 min read

How to Create Real Value for the People You Serve

How to Create Real Value for the People You Serve

Learn how to see your charity through your supporters’ eyes and strengthen every link in your value chain.

Oct 11, 2025

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5 min read

STP: How to Reach the Right People with the Right Message

STP: How to Reach the Right People with the Right Message

Learn how to identify your audience, focus your message, and position your organisation where it matters most.

Oct 4, 2025

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5 min read

AIDA: The Formula Behind Every Great Campaign

AIDA: The Formula Behind Every Great Campaign

It’s not just ads or sales. Discover the real meaning of marketing — value, customers, and lasting relationships.

Sep 23, 2025

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7 min read

The 7Ps: The Modern Marketing Mix Explained

The 7Ps: The Modern Marketing Mix Explained

The 4Ps were built for products — charities need the 7Ps to build trust, show impact, and connect with supporters.

Sep 17, 2025

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6 min read

Differences: marketing vs sales vs branding vs advertising

Differences: marketing vs sales vs branding vs advertising

Marketing, sales, branding, and advertising aren’t the same. Here’s how they connect — and why knowing the difference makes your strategy stronger.

Sep 14, 2025

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7 min read

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