Why Are You Working for Clients Who Don’t Appreciate You?
"I didn't realise that I don't have to work with clients who don't appreciate me!" This is what one of the delegates said at a workshop we ran earlier this year, when we were helping people...
The Art of Marketing Integration
The art of integrating your marketing is easy if you keep it simple. Our previous blog illustrated how your marketing activity should be linked by a common message - and integrated - to be most effective....
What is Integrated Marketing?
Integrated marketing is the strategy of bringing together multiple marketing tools to give the most effective results. Using various methods to market your business is a good thing, but are they all giving the same message?...
Look After Your Clients and They’ll Look After You
"I need to find new clients." This is something I hear all the time from business people I meet. "What's the best way to do it?" they ask me. In my blog of 10 October 2012...
Ask your readers if, and why, they are reading your e-newsletters
One of the key tools we use for our clients is e-newsletters. We plan, write and deliver these according to our clients marketing objectives. Read our blog on why e-newsletters are great for SEO. We always...
Have you started planning next year yet?
Success in business is about knowing where you want to go and planning ahead, to make sure that you get there. A few years ago, we got to the end of the financial year end for...
Email newsletter
What is an Email Newsletter? Email newsletters are a brilliant way of keeping in contact with your previous and current clients. A newsletter is a written publication (by yourself or a paid writer) with a specific...
Clever Marketing – Genuinely Good for SEO at Last!
At Appletree we provide marketing support for our clients across many activities, from planning strategy to writing blogs and social media updates. Increasingly, we achieve great SEO results not because we are working to a strategy...
The Start of Your Marketing Journey – where is your business now?
A lot of people I meet who run small businesses are working really hard to grow those businesses. They are doing loads of marketing, spending lots of their valuable time and quite a bit of their...
