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...
How Important is SEO?
What is SEO? I've mentioned SEO a lot in my blogs and thought I would write a blog about why it is so important. SEO, Search Engine Optimization, is a online marketing strategy of improving...
YouTube – A Really Effective Marketing Tool for SEO
YouTube is often cited as the second most use search engine behind Google. One of our previous YouTube blogs talked about why, as a form of social media it's a really effective marketing tool. Here's a...
What’s the Difference between Sales and Marketing?
I often get asked this question and have heard a number of different answers. Salesmen will tell you that you can do sales without marketing - and that the latter is probably just a waste of...
Youtube. Why use it to grow your business?
The Finer Points of YouTube As soon as the word 'social media' pops up, I bet you automatically think Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+. However, one form of social media that is increasingly important to small...
Content is King!
In my quest to tell the world about content marketing, I recently came across a useful chart which shows just how good it is (and that it's not just me obsessing about it!) This...
Get to Where You Want to Go
How do you get your business to where you want it to be? Once you've set some objectives and goals that you want to achieve - the number of new clients, the increase in your turnover...
