In this one-hour interactive webinar Richard Michie, Managing Director of The Marketing Optimist, talked to Gareth Turner ex-head of marketing for Weetabix, about his thoughts on marketing for big household brands, relationships with agencies and his philosophy on...
For this YouTube Marketing Explained webinar, we’re joined by Greg Preece content creator and YouTube specialist. YouTube is the second-largest search engine in the world, and as it is part of Google it is a crucial element of any marketing strategy. Video is...
People love three choices, there’s something in the human psyche that loves threes. And marketing is no different. On this interactive webinar, which we ran with Ioana Jago of Iventum, our CEO Richard Michie and Ioana discussed their three rules of marketing and how...
As part of our Marketing Sandwich Course webinars we spoke to Ismail Mulla, business reporter on The Yorkshire Post about how businesses should approach journalists to get PR coverage in local press in print and digital. We talked about which PR stories work best, how...
To navigate the challenges of the pandemic, the marketing world had to take all live events, training, seminars, workshops and talks online, and fast! The problem was solved quickly, as businesses turned to Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet to fill the gap. One of...
The origin of The Marketing Optimist comes from a conversation many years before the business existed. I was a Marketing Director at the time, discussing a project with the head of sales, when he referred to my SEO team and I as “marketing optimists”. I registered the...
