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News, views, opinions and general musings from across the Fifth Ring world.

Paws for thought

by Kayleigh Parkinson
22 Jun

As a dog lover, Bring Your Dog To Work Day ticked all of our accounts assistant, Kayleigh’s boxes. Here, she shares why dogs are great to have in the workplace, as well as five considerations you may need to think about.

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Topics: Insider, Brand, Team

15 marketing tips you should embrace in 2018

by Fifth Ring
11 Jan

The start of a new year brings new hopes, resolutions and goals for us all, especially in business lives. But often these ideas merely sit on a list, never actually being actioned because we “don’t have time”, we forget about them, or other things simply get in the way. Until now…

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Topics: Insider, Marketing Tips

Your Website Needs You

by Jordan Beattie
18 Aug

As all great developers do, Google are making some updates to Google Chrome. It was released this week that as of October 2017, Chrome will advise users when they are completing a form on a page using HTTP.

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Topics: Insider

How a Creative Marketing Agency Functions Like the Oil and Gas Industry

by Haley Martin
03 Jul

One has a focus on the messy world of the exploration and production of hydrocarbons, and involves heavy engineering and geology, machinery, tubes and pipes. The other specializes in branding, the digital world, SEO and media. Some people may assume one may be more left-brained than right-brained – but they’d be wrong.

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Topics: Insider, Energy Insight, Public Relations

5 things B2B marketers can learn from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™

by Fifth Ring
07 Mar

Not only is Houston the energy capital of the world, it is home to one of the world’s largest rodeos—and Fifth Ring’s Houston office has its very own rodeo insider. Account executive, Stephanie Black, is a rodeo volunteer and has kept an eye on the yearly marketing tactics used by the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeoto become one of the flagship events for the city.   

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Topics: Insider

Fifth Ring Houston from an Intern’s Perspective

by Aimee Price
30 Aug

The first thing that comes to mind when you think of an internship is coffee runs and boring paperwork, but at Fifth Ring it is quite the contrary.

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Topics: Insider

Continuously improving our website

by Fifth Ring
16 Aug

Rome wasn’t built in a day. Perhaps the most overused cliché in our industry.

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Topics: Insider

Why every student should be in the real world

by Fifth Ring
11 Aug

When I first saw Fifth Ring's internship opening for a Dojo Intern, I immediately opened the link. I was then prompted to read a longer yet unconventional description of the program. I thought to myself, "This is for me!”. It was then that my initial enthusiasm quickly turned to one of doubt and hesitation. Am I going to keep up with the fast pace of professionals? Will my skills be of any use for their existing projects? In spite of these uncertainties, I decided to apply and await a response.

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Topics: Insider

If you really want to make money from your marketing, get real

by Alan Stobie
04 Aug

It’s peculiar, really. Marketing automation isn’t finding its way into a large majority of B2B marketing. And that’s not good. Not good at all.

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Topics: Insider

Why we need sales and marketing

by Fifth Ring
16 Jul

Christine McGee Sales and Marketing Director, Clean Harbors, USA on why we need both.

You can do sales or you can do marketing. But you can’t do both.

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Topics: Insider