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...
Content is Queen When I first set up Appletree back in 2000, I worked as a freelance copywriter. I wrote content for all sorts of marketing material, for all sorts of small businesses. As time has...
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...
In the A-Z of Marketing, K is for ... Knowledge I wrote in this blog a couple of weeks ago about how sharing your expertise is a great way to promote your business and grow your reputation....
In the A - Z of Marketing H is for... How to ? How do you promote your service business? When you provide a service, such as coaching, consulting or training, it can be difficult to...
On Monday Dale gave us some expert reasons on why you should start a business blog. You now have all the positive reasons why you should start a blog. So...have you started one? If you're still...
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...
