Massive Marketing Mistakes – Number One: Being the Same as Everyone Else Over the years I’ve met many people who are new in business and are struggling to get going. They are finding the first few...
How To Get Recommendations – Find Out What Your Clients Don’t Like About Your Service! The Appletree Client Survey – Part Two In December I wrote about how we commissioned a client survey, to...
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...
Get Your Marketing Right and You Don't Need to Know How to Sell Ask any Marketing Consultant whether they think marketing is more important than sales and of course they will tell you that it is....
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...
What's the Best Way to Get Referrals? By Saying Thank You! I keep hearing people talk about 'referral strategies' and a number of my clients have asked me recently about whether or not they should set...
In the A - Z of Marketing, R is for - Referrals R could be about Reputation, Relationships or Regular Marketing. They are all important and I've written about all of them recently, so I decided...
Don't Waste Money on Marketing: Develop a Secret Salesforce Instead On 1 May I wrote a blog about the core values we have at Appletree. (Click here if you missed it.) Core values are an essential...
Let Your Clients Do Your Marketing for You Last month I wrote about the first two parts of our new Business Plan and how the focus is on looking after existing clients, rather than chasing after...
In the A - Z of Marketing I is for ... Ideal Clients There are many different ways to promote and grow your business. You can rush around looking for new clients and take on whatever...
As the UK was about to head into another Covid lockdown towards the end of...
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...
