Insights

Thinking that compounds.

Two shelves: the Imagine series, one honest daydream per engine, and plain-English guides for firms that sell expertise.

The Imagine series

Inbound enquiries · 2026-07-19

The enquiry that lands at four has an answer by five

Enquiries are won by the firm that answers first and best.

Staying in touch · 2026-07-19

Won on the third touch, gracefully

Good prospects say not now and mean it. The work that wins them is remembering, staying quietly useful, and going back at exactly the agreed moment..

Referrals · 2026-07-19

Your warmest route in is someone you already know

Most firms' best work arrives by referral, and almost nobody has a system for it.

Account growth · 2026-07-13

Your next win is a client you've already won

What if the work of knowing which lapsed clients are worth a call this week was done before your team sat down on a Monday morning?

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Imagine series · 2026-06-24

Imagine if your expertise published itself

Imagine if the expertise you already have turned itself into articles and posts, week in, week out, without you finding

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Imagine series · 2026-06-10

Imagine if looking you up sealed the deal

Imagine if that moment, the quiet background check you never see, was the moment you got picked.

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Imagine series · 2026-05-27

Imagine if no enquiry ever hit a dead end

Imagine if every single visit had a clear next step, and every enquiry landed somewhere warm.

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Imagine series · 2026-05-13

Imagine if you could score your market position in an afternoon

Imagine if you could see your actual position, scored honestly, in the time it takes to run a client meeting.

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Imagine series · 2026-04-29

Imagine if your next clients identified themselves

Imagine if the accounts entering the market announced themselves to you, continuously.

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Imagine series · 2026-04-15

Imagine if cold outreach read handmade

Imagine if every message you sent read like it was written for exactly one person, because it effectively was.

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Imagine series · 2026-04-01

Imagine if every meeting started fully briefed

Imagine if a one-page brief built itself before every meeting: who is in the room, what changed at their firm, and the a

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Imagine series · 2026-03-18

Imagine if your Growth Map wrote the plan

Imagine if your Growth Map turned itself into a playbook: what to do, in what order, starting Monday.

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Imagine series · 2026-03-04

Imagine if every proposal matched your best

Imagine if every proposal that left the firm matched that best one: tailored, on-brand, and drafted in minutes.

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Imagine series · 2026-02-18

Imagine if your team sold on outcomes

Imagine if your senior people walked into business development conversations with the confidence of people who know exac

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Imagine series · 2026-02-04

Imagine if the right asset was always ready to send

Imagine if every deal had exactly the right asset, on-message and ready, the moment it was needed.

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Imagine series · 2026-01-21

Imagine if you always knew what was working

Imagine if you could see the whole engine room at a glance: what is moving, what is stuck, and what deserves attention n

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Guides

Guide · 2026-07-05

What AI changes about marketing for small firms (and what it doesn't)

Knowing which is which is now a competitive skill.

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Guide · 2026-07-01

What does a fractional CMO actually cost in Ireland?

The better question is what you are buying: days, or outcomes.

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Guide · 2026-06-28

New market entry for Irish firms: the qualitative work first

The pattern in the failures is always the same: they skipped the quiet work.

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Guide · 2026-06-17

Fractional CMO or marketing agency: which does a professional services firm need?

Here is the distinction that actually decides it.

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Guide · 2026-06-03

The first 90 days with a fractional CMO

Here is what the first ninety days should look like instead.

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Guide · 2026-05-31

Proposals are a system, not an afternoon

Treating proposals as a system changes three things at once.

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Guide · 2026-05-20

Why your firm's referrals dried up (and what replaces them)

Referrals did not stop working. The conditions that produced them changed.

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Guide · 2026-05-06

An ideal customer profile your partners will actually use

A useful ICP describes a situation, not just a category.

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Guide · 2026-04-22

A value proposition test you can run in one meeting

If they differ, your market is hearing the same static.

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Guide · 2026-04-08

Go to market for professional services, in plain English

Here they are, in the order they should be made.

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Guide · 2026-03-25

Why 'we do content' is not a content strategy

Activity is not strategy. Here is the difference.

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Guide · 2026-03-11

LinkedIn for founders who hate LinkedIn

Here is how to be excellent there while barely visiting.

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Guide · 2026-03-08

Why senior partners avoid business development (and the fix)

People avoid work that feels unequipped. BD as practised is maximally unequipped.

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Guide · 2026-02-25

How B2B buyers in Ireland actually choose advisers

Understanding it changes where marketing effort should go.

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Guide · 2026-02-15

The compounding effect: why engines beat campaigns

This is the single most important distinction in marketing spend.

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Guide · 2026-02-11

Marketing when your buyers are other businesses' owners

That changes the playbook in three ways.

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Guide · 2026-01-28

The case for strategy before software

Tools amplify direction. They cannot supply it.

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Guide · 2026-01-14

How to measure marketing when you sell expertise

There is a middle path: a small set of honest numbers.

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Bring it to a conversation.

Thirty minutes on the firm, the market, and the gap between them. You'll leave knowing what I'd build first and why. And if the honest answer is that you don't need an engine yet, you'll hear that too.