Traditionally, engagement goals have included reaching the largest amount of people possible to get the most opinions. This can sometimes be a successful way of gaining insights, but recently there has been a shift towards focusing in on smaller, higher quality...
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2023 Communication and Engagement Trend Predictions
Mangos are getting sweeter, the weather is hotter, and shops are busier, which means 2023 is just around the corner. The new year will bring new trends in fashion, politics, communication and engagement. Here is how Articulous predicts communication and engagement...
Things we can do as an engagement agency that we couldn’t do when we started.
This month Articulous is celebrating 10 years as an engagement agency. But let’s be honest, starting as a solo consultant was hard work. Here are 10 things I couldn’t do as a solo consultant, that we can do now.
How to humanise data in community engagement
Communication and data go hand in hand. Great communication should be informed by great data, and great data should be explained through great communication. But to really make the most of your data and deliver informed, targeted engagement and communication...
How to write a social media strategy
We firmly believe every business needs a social media strategy. That's because the way social media has evolved over the last two decades has shown how something that started as an information sharing platform quickly became a global phenomenon, and led the way in...
The personal lessons engagement taught us in 2021
We’ve made it through a most interesting year. A year of engaging with communities, communicating with transparency, and, let’s face it, making our way through a maelstrom of mandates, masks, and maintaining social distancing. We wrapped up the year with our...
Talk is not cheap
For many years’ opinion polls have been used as the go-to tool to understand community attitudes and trends. But as we are increasingly seeing across the globe, the polls don’t always get it right. With a proliferation of opinion polls in the market, all of us have...
A strategy can fail without the will to drive it
Can a well-constructed and resourced strategy succeed without the will of those driving it? A good strategy, communicated, will keep things moving, but often it is an individual or group’s will, particularly ‘the sheer force of will’ that delivers the most...
Substance over slogans
When you think about some of the great marketing campaigns in the world, you think about the slogan and the catchy jingle. You know the ones – they give you ear worm when you turn on the TV or radio. Undeniably these slogans are great for the products they...