{"id":26167,"date":"2022-10-03T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locksmith.works\/?p=26167"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:38:48","slug":"working-with-itg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locksmith.works\/working-with-itg\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re\u00a0working with ITG!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019re super-excited to announce we have been commissioned by the brilliant team at <a href=\"https:\/\/teamitg.com\">ITG<\/a>, the tech-led marketing agency behind some of the UK\u2019s biggest brands (think: Costa, Curry\u2019s and Jaeger).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The course in a nutshell&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll be delivering a course called The Marketing Academy, a bespoke version of our flagship brand building training programme called<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.locksmith.works\/training\/the-key-to-brand-management\/\">The Key to Brand Management<\/a><strong>.<\/strong> The course is based on best practice marketing principles, processes and tools drawn from our extensive experience and from industry leading thinking from publications such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingscience.info\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cHow Brands Grow\u201d<\/a> by Bryon Sharp and <a href=\"https:\/\/ipa.co.uk\/knowledge\/publications-reports\/the-long-and-the-short-of-it-balancing-short-and-long-term-marketing-strategies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe Long and the Short of it\u201d<\/a> by Binet and Field.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get in touch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If your business or team would benefit from bespoke, in-house training in brand building, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.locksmith.works\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">please get in touch<\/a> with us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/locksmith.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LockSmith-home-chris-and-alex-2-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"Alex and Chris sat with a laptop\" class=\"wp-image-937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locksmith.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LockSmith-home-chris-and-alex-2-980x555.jpg 980w, https:\/\/locksmith.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LockSmith-home-chris-and-alex-2-480x272.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re super-excited to announce we have been commissioned by the brilliant team at ITG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10],"tags":[29,21,28,26,14],"class_list":["post-26167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consulting","category-marketing-and-innovation","tag-agency","tag-capability","tag-fmcg","tag-growth-strategy","tag-marketing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We\u2019re\u00a0working with ITG!\u00a0 - LockSmith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marketing capability development for the tech industry. 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