The Market Concepts

PILLAR 03 · DIGITAL GROWTH & COMMERCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Marketing that shows up in revenue.

For businesses whose marketing is busy, but whose growth is not.

THE CONTEXT

Two things have changed. Buyers expect a fast answer: research published in Harvard Business Review found that companies contacting a lead within an hour were nearly seven times more likely to qualify it.1 And more people ask AI assistants instead of searching; Gartner predicted traditional search volume would fall 25% by 2026.2 Meanwhile marketing budgets have held flat at 7.7% of company revenue.3 Every channel now has to show what it returns.

OUR APPROACH

We look at marketing the way a finance director would. We start with positioning, then the channels, then the website and CRM where enquiries turn into sales, then the reporting. Every recommendation is judged by what it does for revenue. Our team has done this work across hospitality, retail, pharma, media and e-commerce.

SERVICES AND PAPERS

Five services. One researched paper for each.

Each paper sets out the market context, the common problems, our approach, what you receive and how success is measured, with every figure sourced.

PAPER 11Brand Consultancy & Go-to-MarketMost marketing problems are positioning problems in disguise.Read the paper →PAPER 12Websites & E-commerceA website is a salesperson that works around the clock.Read the paper →PAPER 13SEO & AI Search VisibilityPeople still search, but more of them now ask an AI assistant and read the answer.Read the paper →PAPER 14CRM & Conversion OptimisationMost businesses spend to find new customers while leads go cold and existing customers drift away.Read the paper →PAPER 15Performance MarketingPaid media is easy to spend and hard to judge.Read the paper →

SOURCES

  1. Oldroyd, McElheran and Elkington, The Short Life of Online Sales Leads, Harvard Business Review, March 2011
  2. Gartner, search engine volume prediction, 19 February 2024
  3. Gartner, 2025 CMO Spend Survey, 12 May 2025

Marketing busy, growth flat?

Start with the brand and go-to-market paper, or tell Atlas what you are working on.

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