The door in the face technique is a persuasion strategy where you make a large, deliberately unreasonable request first, then follow it with the smaller request you actually want. The contrast makes the second ask feel modest by comparison, and the person is more likely to agree. It works because of a principle called reciprocal…
Influencer seeding is the practice of sending free products to creators without a paid contract, with the expectation that some will post about the experience organically. Done well, it generates authentic content at a fraction of the cost of a paid campaign. Done badly, it burns product budget, clutters inboxes, and produces nothing. The difference…
The best Ahrefs alternatives for most teams are Semrush, Moz Pro, and Screaming Frog, depending on what you actually need. Ahrefs is a genuinely strong tool, but it is not the right fit for every budget, workflow, or team structure. There are credible options at every price point, and some of them outperform Ahrefs in…
A social media video strategy is a structured approach to creating, distributing, and measuring video content across social platforms, with the goal of driving specific business outcomes rather than accumulating views. The difference between brands that get results from social video and those that just stay busy comes down to one thing: intent. Every piece…
Advertising works. The evidence for that is overwhelming, even if the mechanism is frequently misunderstood. Brands that go dark lose share. Brands that stay visible through downturns recover faster. Brands that invest consistently in building memory structures tend to outperform those chasing quarterly conversion rates. The question was never really whether advertising works. The more…
Multi-channel attribution models are frameworks that assign credit to the marketing touchpoints a customer interacts with before converting. The model you choose determines which channels appear to be working, which appear to be wasting budget, and in the end, where you invest next. Get the model wrong and you will be optimising toward a fiction….
The HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations, written by Nancy Duarte, is one of the more practically useful books on communication that has come out of the business press. It treats presentation as a craft with learnable principles, not a performance gift you either have or you don’t. For anyone who regularly has to move a…
An influencer strategy template gives you a repeatable structure for planning, executing, and measuring creator campaigns without rebuilding the process from scratch each time. The best ones cover six core areas: objectives, audience and creator criteria, outreach and briefing, content governance, campaign activation, and performance measurement. Most brands don’t fail at influencer marketing because they…
A Chief Customer Experience Officer is a senior executive responsible for the end-to-end experience a customer has with a business, from first contact through to repeat purchase and advocacy. The role sits at the intersection of operations, marketing, product, and service, and its core job is to ensure those functions work in concert rather than…
Brand health measurement is the practice of tracking how a brand is perceived, remembered, and preferred over time across a defined audience. Done well, it connects brand investment to commercial outcomes. Done poorly, it produces dashboards full of numbers that nobody acts on. Most measurement frameworks sit somewhere between those two outcomes, closer to the…
Practical marketing intelligence
for people who think.
© 2026 The Marketing Juice