Insights
Thinking on digital marketing, CRM strategy, and the systems that drive growth.
28 October 2026
Stop Waiting for the Budget to Fix Your Margin
Ahead of today’s Autumn Budget, Bibby Financial Services polled 1,008 UK SME owners. Only one in five expect the Budget to benefit...
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18 October 2026
Replacing the Founder Isn’t the Transformation. Rebuilding the Business Underneath Them Is.
According to 2026 industry benchmarking, roughly 40% of founder-to-successor CEO transitions fail. At private equity-backed companies, more than 70% of CEOs are...
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4 October 2026
85% of Companies Know Their Pricing Is Broken. Only 15% Have Done Anything About It.
Most leadership teams can produce a pricing strategy on request. A rate card, a discount policy, maybe a recent repricing exercise with...
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20 September 2026
The Founder-Led Revenue Ceiling Nobody Budgets For
Six months after the hire, the founder is still closing every deal that matters. That’s usually the moment a founder-led business first...
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6 September 2026
The Great Flattening Is Exposing Businesses That Never Built a Middle in the First Place
Amazon has cut roughly 14,000 corporate management roles this year. Oracle has cut somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000, close to 18% of...
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23 August 2026
The Rules of Winning Public Sector Work Just Changed Again: Most Bidders Haven’t Noticed
On 5 August, the rules for winning government work changed again. That is the effective date of Procurement Policy Note 026 (PPN...
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9 August 2026
AI Didn’t Expose a Technology Gap. It Exposed Your Leadership Gap.
Three percent. That is the share of organisations whose leaders are highly prepared to manage AI-enabled ways of working, according to a...
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26 July 2026
Your Content Just Became Inventory: Marketing After Cloudflare’s Crawler Tollbooth
On 1 July, Cloudflare used its second annual “Content Independence Day” to quietly redraw the terms of trade for everyone who publishes...
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12 July 2026
The Zombie SaaS Economy: What Bending Spoons’ IPO Says About Software’s Second Act
On 1 July, a Milan-based company most software founders could not have named two years ago listed on the Nasdaq at $29...
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29 June 2026
Your Email Is Not a Channel. It Is a System. And Most Businesses Are Treating It Like a Flyer.
By Blaque Software | Insights | 29 June 2026 Email gets pronounced dead roughly once every five years. Social killed it. Then...
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