In the A – Z of Marketing O is For … Objectives
In the A - Z of Marketing O is For Objectives Why are objectives so important for your business? Over the past years at Appletree, there have been times when we were unsure as to what...
The 9 Minute Marketing Plan
Here is a process we use for creating Marketing Plans for all our clients and our business. It forms the structure of the book ? Magnetic Marketing ? and it?s what we talk about in short presentations called The 9 Minute...
Online marketing may not be quick, but it’s effective
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] As the recession deepens (and all those BNI types who still testify that there isn't a recession, wake up and smell the coffee), businesses are starting to appear a mite desperate....
The importance of long-term marketing
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Businesses have a varied view of what marketing is for, and how it can be used, and it invariably depends on their financial position, the product or service they are promoting,...
Planning for Success
Ad hoc marketing doesn?t work. You can?t send one email newsletter and sit back and expect the phone to ring. You can?t go to one networking meeting and expect everyone there to give you business. Good...
Using analogies to explain the technical bits
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Quite a lot of what I do is technical. There was once a time when I didn't understand what I do, so I had to learn, usually the long and hard...
Bring your business to your customers, not the other way round
[caption id="attachment_165" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Gone are the days when customers came to you. The internet may be compared to a massive shopping-mall, but it is, of course, so huge, there is no way anybody could...
