Tony Hallett

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What marketing can’t afford to lose in uncertain times

By Tony Hallett / 01/06/2026

I have no crystal ball. And it’s quite possible I could publish this same post in January next year. But I do know that right now too many companies, too…

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Written By Tony Hallett06/01/2026
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5 content-related reasons I’ve seen marketing campaigns fail in 2025

By Tony Hallett / 12/23/2025

The last weeks of December come with a guarantee that we’ll all be seeing lots of similar posts: the round-up.     This year, I’ve decided to compile five content-related reasons that I’ve seen marketing campaigns flop in 2025. Why? So you can…

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Written By Tony Hallett23/12/2025
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3 examples: audiences seeking out ‘the human’

By Tony Hallett / 12/18/2025

How do you stand out in a world of AI mediocrity and, more broadly, B2B same-ness?    Where in the world? Twenty years ago, I was five years into editing a weekly…

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Written By Tony Hallett18/12/2025
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A laptop on a wooden desk displaying a LinkedIn company page for ‘Collective Content.’ The screen shows the company banner with the tagline ‘Trust through understanding.’ The desk is positioned in front of a window with greenery outside. On the left side of the desk is a decorative glass lamp, and on the right side is a small potted plant.

The recipe – opening up about our content strategy for LinkedIn 

By Tony Hallett / 11/18/2025

Our CC LinkedIn content strategy is a subset of our wider content strategy. (I’ll add here that we should all have documented content strategies.) Also, I realise ours is not…

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Written By Tony Hallett18/11/2025
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Commit No Nuisance – whatever that means

By Tony Hallett / 11/12/2025

I was at a meeting in Southwark last week and walked past a somewhat well-known street sign, one that I’d pass most mornings on a commute I used to make…

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Written By Tony Hallett12/11/2025
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MD Tony Hallett and Samad Masood from Infosys sitting across from each other at a table recording a podcast.

It’s the year of audio (again) – but which type?

By Tony Hallett / 10/08/2025

We’ve been in The Year of Audio Content for a number of years. But what comes to mind when I say ‘audio content’? Podcasts are a type of audio –…

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Written By Tony Hallett08/10/2025
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Real > stock > AI imagery

By Tony Hallett / 09/10/2025

I was looking at a carousel that my colleagues posted to our CC LinkedIn page a while ago (digression: you should follow our LinkedIn page, if you don’t already). The post was…

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Written By Tony Hallett10/09/2025
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11 best content marketing links Q2 25

By Tony Hallett / 07/01/2025

Edelman report: Smart thought leadership outperforms traditional B2B marketing In short, thought leadership does drive B2B sales. Just remember to do it well (clue: we’re here to help).   Painkillers…

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Written By Tony Hallett01/07/2025
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Painkillers or vitamins – what do you sell?

By Tony Hallett / 06/09/2025

The internet is thick with business guru after business guru telling you to sell painkillers rather than vitamins. What does that mean? Well, the theory is that we all know…

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Written By Tony Hallett09/06/2025
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The Steph Curry lesson for business

By Tony Hallett / 05/19/2025

This story is a little old now but it says so much about how a company becomes trusted and wins new business. Steph Curry is among the best basketball players…

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Written By Tony Hallett19/05/2025
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The $$$ is in the detail

By Tony Hallett / 04/09/2025

The devil is in the detail, they say. But sometimes it’s the good stuff you find in the detail – in work or play. I recently visited several universities with…

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Written By Tony Hallett09/04/2025
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