Signals
Observations from building systems that operate at scale.
Brand Strategy8 MIN READ
The Website Redesign Solved the Wrong Problem. Again.
Nearly 80% of website redesigns fail. That figure has appeared consistently across agency post-mortems, client retrospectives, and platform performance audits for years. It does not appear to have changed the way most redesigns are initiated. ThrillX The reason is specific: most website re.....
Original Research Is Becoming a Competitive Advantage Again
For roughly a decade, the dominant content strategy was volume. More posts meant more indexed pages, more ranking opportunities, more compounding traffic. The investment in content production was justified by the accu.....
The Contact Page Is More Important Than You Think
Think about what has to happen before a visitor reaches a contact page. They found the organisation through some combination of search, social, referral, or word of mouth. They formed a view of whether it was worth in.....
The Brief Is Where Most Marketing Work Goes Wrong
The BetterBriefs Project, the largest global study on marketing briefs, surveyed over 1,700 marketers and agency staff across 70 countries. The headline finding was this: 80% of marketers believe they write good brief.....
The Zero-Click Customer Is Still a Customer
58.5% of US Google searches and 59.7% of European ones now end without a click to any external website. When an AI Overview is present, that figure rises to 83%. The organic traffic reports that marketing teams have u.....
Execution beats commentary.
We build before we publish.
We test before we advise.
We measure before we claim.
The Homepage Is Doing Too Many Jobs
At some point in the last few years, a meeting happened in your organisation where someone said “the homepage should also speak to X.” That request was reasonable. The person making it had a real audience .....
Marketing Teams Have Too Many Specialists and Not Enough Systems Thinkers
Most marketing teams are built the same way. A specialist for paid media. A specialist for SEO. A specialist for content, for email, for social, for analytics. Each one is skilled. Each one optimises their own channel.....
Every Dashboard Eventually Lies
Not through falsification. Nobody changes a number. The lie is more systematic and considerably harder to address because it does not require intent. It requires only that the people presenting the data are the same p.....
The Conversion Rate Optimisation Industry Sold You the Wrong Problem
Most organisations that have run CRO programmes will recognise this pattern. The agency presents a roadmap of tests. The first few produce wins. Button colours change, CTAs are repositioned, form fields are reduced. T.....
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