Marketing planning and why now is a great time to do it
Planning, that old exercise of writing a list of things you are going to do, only never to look at the list again! Sound familiar? The start of a new year is generally filled with repeated...
Which are your best selling months?
I?m currently reading Faff by Mike Pagan. He gave me a copy a couple of months ago when he presented at a meeting I attended (click here for more information about the meeting and a link...
The 2011 Appletree Christmas Card Awards
Here?s what you?ve been waiting for! The 2011 Appletree Christmas Card Awards! I made a number of awards last year, for the best, worst, cleverest and most pointless Christmas card ? click here to read that...
Great Marketing Won’t Get You Anywhere … Part 3
This is the final blog of a 3 part series that I've been writing, about how to close a sale. Great marketing won't get you anywhere if you can't close a sale, so here is the...
Be a pest ? Everest
A little while ago I wrote on this blog how impressed I was with the customer service we received last autumn when we bought new windows from Everest. The company has gone to great lengths to...
What does making paper hats have to do with marketing?
At a networking meeting recently we were all paired up and asked to sit with our backs to each other. One of us was given a piece of paper on which were diagrammatic instructions and the...
Great marketing won?t get you anywhere … Part 2
A while ago I started writing about a clever sales process that I?ve been taught and wanted to share with you. Click here to read the first part and then read on to find out how...
Have you tried the art of Zen Marketing?
Some people rush around doing masses of marketing ? lots of networking, writing articles and blog posts, speaking in public ? and hope that the phone rings. They go to loads of meetings and send out...
Great marketing won?t get you anywhere ……unless you know how to sell and close the deal!
You can spend a lot of time, effort and money generating enquiries, getting your phone to ring and having meetings with prospective clients. But if you don?t have a great way of asking for the sale...
How not to run an event
So you?re planning to run an event. A workshop or perhaps a seminar, where you can share your expertise with an audience. Or maybe you?re aiming high with a conference? Here are some tips for you...
