And what happens to your marketing when that happens? The way in which products and services are marketed is very different. With a product, you can show your potential buyer what they are going to buy...
Massive Marketing Mistakes – Number Seven: Trying to Do It All Yourself Are you a Marketing Consultant? If not, why are you trying to do your own marketing? Are you a website designer? No? So why...
Massive Marketing Mistakes – Number Six: Spending Money on Your Marketing How often do you think that you’ll just spend a little more on a bigger advert, just to see if it works? Or do...
Why Do We Use Social Media? In January I joined one of my clients at their quarterly Staff Meeting. Usually this is when they all get together to share the successes of the recent quarter, award...
The Alternative 12 Days of Christmas – or 12 different ways to promote your business next year! On the first day of Christmas my true love … – so you think you know the rest? Here...
The A – Z of Marketing: The Full List At the start of 2014 we started writing the A – Z of Marketing – a series of 26 blogs looking at 26 different marketing topics. Of...
How Can You Use Authentic Marketing To Grow Your Business? So far, 2014 has been a really good year for Appletree. In fact, in terms of profitability, it has been the best year in all the...
How Do You Come Up with Blog Ideas? This is a question I’m asked on a fairly frequent basis. Lack of content and ideas seems to be something that prevents many people from blogging on regularly....
Take Your Business on Tour! When Appletree turned 10 years old, I celebrated by writing a book full of the lessons I'd learnt, to help other small business owners avoid making the same mistakes. It took...
In the A - Z of Marketing, Y is for ... You! Many small businesses struggle to work out their USP - unique selling point - that makes them different and makes them stand out from...
10 years ago, I went skiing with a group of other business owners. The group...
I don’t often go to supermarkets. I’m not keen on the experience and would rather...
My forthcoming book is the result of over 20 years of looking for better ways...
