Massive Marketing Mistakes – Number Four: Trying to Work with Everyone “Who are your clients?” I ask. “We can work with absolutely anyone,” they reply. This is Massive Marketing Mistake Number Four – thinking that...
Massive Marketing Mistakes – Number Three: Chasing New Clients What’s the third Massive Marketing Mistake that businesses make, which leaves them struggling to build the business they want? The first is not knowing where you are;...
How to Use a Soft Start for Your Presentations Many years ago, I learnt a very clever way of starting talks and presentations that I’ve been sharing ever since. It’s called the ABCD of Introductions and...
Where is Your Business Going in 2015? I know you'll already have read a lot by now about setting goals for 2015, about New Year's resolutions and about plans ... and that's because this is still...
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...
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....
In the A – Z of Marketing, Z is for ... Zest, Zing and Zebedee! I used to love going to networking events. I would bounce in like Zebedee and find people to speak to. If...
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...
When someone trusts you, they are more likely to buy from you. How do you build trust? By developing credibility. What is credibility and how do you go about building it? When you provide a service...
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...
