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A behind-the-scenes look at life at Origin, our team’s favourite campaigns, what our clients are getting up to and a round-up of the marketing trends you need to know about.
Let’s face it — assembling a digital team today feels a bit like building IKEA furniture with the wrong user manual and missing screws. You’ve got all the parts (strategy, design, dev, UX, SEO, CMS… and 17 more acronyms). But how do you make it actually work?
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In today’s digital-first universe, your website isn’t just a shiny brochure — it’s your storefront, sales engine, content hub, and often the very first handshake with your future customer.
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Because here’s the deal — no matter how beautiful your UX is or how clever your AI chatbot sounds, if your site is sluggish, buggy, or goes down every time traffic spikes, users won’t stick around. (Let’s be honest, we’ve all bounced off a site because it didn’t load fast enough — and our attention spans are now officially shorter than a goldfish’s. Literally.)
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For CTOs, it's no longer sufficient to react to change—strategic foresight and technical fluency are now essential for steering innovation and delivering resilient, scalable solutions
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This partnership reinforces our growing reputation as trusted digital partners to the utilities sector — providing not only rock-solid performance, but peace of mind.
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Our aim is to create a digital experience that supports tourism, facilitates smoother border entry, and reflects the warmth and professionalism of St Helena’s welcome.
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A major step forward in the organisation’s digital evolution.
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This partnership brings together two companies that share a passion for excellence and innovation.
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This strategic win sees Origin providing ongoing digital support and a robust service level agreement (SLA) to ensure the performance, reliability, and security of RVC’s digital platforms.
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This partnership is a natural fit. While Softcat delivers cutting-edge technical infrastructure and support, Origin’s deep experience in digital strategy and customer experience design adds a powerful new layer to the mix.
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This collaboration marks a major step in Palletways’ commitment to delivering customer-centric innovation across their digital touchpoints.
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This collaboration marks an exciting chapter for Origin as we bring our user-focused, high-performance digital expertise to a brand that’s as bold and distinctive as the machines it creates.
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As Debono’s official digital partner, Origin will be supporting all of their project work — bringing technical expertise, seamless execution, and high-performing digital experiences to complement Debono’s sharp creative direction.
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The beginning of May 2019 saw James and Sud take a trip to San Francisco to visit our clients at the US Loqate office. This was to get the ball rolling for our next big Account Based Marketing Campaign with Loqate, a GBG Solution.
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Technology and marketing tools are constantly evolving, and to remain current and gain a competitive edge, it’s essential to keep up-to-date with the latest developments.
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Phoebe, a foundation degree Graphic Design, Multimedia and Illustration student, joined Origin as an intern in February 2019 to gain agency experience and learn transferrable marketing skills.
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As we progress into the second half of 2019, we’ve seen many new developments and trends in digital marketing and advertising.
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“Jaguar Land Rover to slash 4,500 jobs as part of £2.5bn plan to reverse losses”.
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ABM is a business-to-business (B2B) strategy that focuses sales and marketing resources on target accounts within a specific market.
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The term ‘zero waste marketing’ outlines the most significant advantage of implementing an ABM strategy; less time and effort will be wasted by sales and marketing teams.
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There are many definitions of what constitutes a quality lead to different businesses, but for us, any prospect that has shown interest in your offering and has a valid form of communication should be considered a good lead.
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There’s a wealth of software and tools available for businesses to simplify marketing, so much so that implementing too many tools begins to complicate processes.
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The focus of marketing technology is to pique the interest of leads so they become engaged with your offering and can be converted into customers.
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The focus of marketing technology is to pique the interest of leads so they become engaged with your offering and can be converted into customers.
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Traditional marketing such as cold calls are falling out of favour because many people find them disruptive and untrustworthy. This has led to the adoption of ABM by many businesses, a strategy built on high levels of personalisation.
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Instagram generates 20x more engagement than LinkedIn for B2B brands (TrackMaven).
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The ancient art of storytelling induces human emotional connection, which makes it a powerful marketing tool.
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Did you know that once you publish a blog post, case study or news item on your site it continues to “work” for your company?
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The beauty of artificial intelligence (AI) is that we don’t think about it despite using AI technologies daily.
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A minimum viable product (MVP) is a concept which was publicised in Eric Ries’ book Lean Startup and is defined as a product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning from it as possible.
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An API-driven strategy is a long-term solution to bridge the integration gap and it can help businesses manage complex technological demands.
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User Experience (UX) is the overall experience that people have whilst navigating a website, mobile app or a digital product, and is critical to its success.
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The Origin team is climbing Mount Snowdon on the 19th October to help raise money for St Peter’s Hospice.
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There are many different types of content that can be used as part of an inbound marketing strategy, but which have the greatest impact?
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Inbound marketing is a business methodology that attracts customers by creating valuable content and experiences tailored to them (Hubspot).
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direct mail does work if you hone your contact list to send data-driven communications.
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Salesforce defines marketing automation as the process of utilising technology to streamline marketing efforts and make them more effective.
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“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well, the product or service sells itself” – Peter Drucker.
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Marketers have had to adjust their strategies to match customer demand and achieve optimal results from marketing efforts.
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Social commerce is the practice of using social media sites as a vehicle to sell your products or services (Social Media Today).
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60% of Instagram users discover new products on the platform (Instagram Business).
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45% of consumers reported social media is one of the first channels they go to in case they have questions or issues (Sprout Social).
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The latest available statistics show that there are 500 million monthly active users around the world. And, according to Google Play Store, the app was downloaded nine million times in October 2018 alone (Business of Apps).
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Nano-influencers are Instagram users who have between 1,000 and 5,000 followers. Their accounts are neither glamorous nor polished, photos are neither posed nor retouched with dozens of filters.
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Research shows that 58.8% of employees in a formal employee advocacy program spend more than five hours a week socially promoting their employer than those who are not (Hinge Marketing).
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LinkedIn data shows sales professionals with a strong social selling index (SSI) have 45% more sales opportunities than others, and are 51% more likely to hit their sales quotas.
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So, how do you make the LinkedIn algorithm work for you?
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How Origin created Wesleyan’s coronavirus website in record time
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How Origin created Wesleyan’s coronavirus website in record time
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More than ever, the time to focus on building and nurturing trust is now. But how do you get heard in such a densely populated online space?
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More than ever, the time to focus on building and nurturing trust is now. But how do you get heard in such a densely populated online space?
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Wesleyan Assurance, based in Birmingham, appointed Origin in 2008 to create a new and improved website that enhanced online customer experiences and has been a loyal client ever since.
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Having built and launched their latest ecommerce site in January, we are pleased to announce that we’ve been awarded a new website project for their sister brand Micralite.
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Justin Duling and Eric Rosenthal on how fintech and payment capabilities, powered by location data, play a critical role in building the ecommerce infrastructures needed to accelerate in today’s digital world.
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Social selling is all about using social media platforms to build trust, but nobody will listen to a brand that blows its own trumpet. This is where brand advocacy comes in.
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We can now order a pizza, a taxi and tickets to the cinema all from our phones within minutes using just our fingertips. And, the way we behave, think, interact and communicate has changed as a result.
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Personal branding refers to the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands. It’s the building of your personality in an online format.
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It’s time for organisations to adopt their approach to suit the needs of their employees and customers. Today, like you, they are faced with new challenges and problems; but they still have needs and they are still looking for solutions.
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Who would have thought at the start of 2020 that Zoom and Teams calls would become a thing of the norm?
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By adopting a “customer-obsessed” culture you’ll be able to experiment patiently, accept failures and learn from them.
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In due time, I’m confident we will get back to ‘normal’, but I do believe that the acceleration of digital and the habits we’ve picked up are here to stay - which is not a bad thing.
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For every $1 invested in social selling, the ROI is $5 – well, that’s according to Jamie Shanks who mentioned this back in 2014.
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ABM is a focused and targeted approach to B2B marketing where sales and marketing align and work together to identify, target and engage best fit accounts and turn them into customers.
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The way we communicate, interact, buy, sell, and live has been affected massively, and digital is paving a new way forward. With so many of us now online, this presents us with a fantastic opportunity. We can get to know our audience, our customers and prospects on a human-to-human level.
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‘Cut through the noise’ means to communicate in a way that garners attention. The ‘noise’ in this phrase refers to all the promotions and advertising in today’s marketplace, as defined by Quora.
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The role of the salesperson has changed, and successful sales- people should not consider themselves as hunters but more like gardeners, because it’s all about nurturing, being patient and thinking about the long term.
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The purpose and end goal of thought leadership is to become a recognised expert within your industry, a go-to resource, a trusted advisor, someone who knows what they’re talking about.
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Social selling on LinkedIn refers to using LinkedIn to find, connect, and build relationships with leads and prospects in hopes of driving sales.
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As an online business owners, head of ecommerce, UX/UI developers you see prospects and customers come to your site, and look around, and purchase—or you watched them exit your site, leaving you with burning questions
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Nobody likes cold calling – it’s intrusive and the statistics show it’s ineffective.
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There has always been a battle between sales and marketing which ultimately concerns blaming each other for the failure of any ROI or lost conversions.
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Direct sales alone are not enough, especially in the SaaS and tech space, which is where channel sales and partner programs come into play.
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