How Do You Encourage Other People to Say Yes to Your Sales Proposal? Last year one of my clients asked me to write a newsletter for him, about how to influence people and, in particular,...
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...
What Do Your Clients Really Think of You? The Appletree Client Survey – Part One When did you last ask your clients what they really think of you? Do you know why they use your services...
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....
How Can You Use Authentic Marketing To Grow Your Business? So far, 2014 has been a really good year for Appletree. In fact, in terms of profitability, it has been the best year in all the...
How Do You Come Up with Blog Ideas? This is a question I’m asked on a fairly frequent basis. Lack of content and ideas seems to be something that prevents many people from blogging on regularly....
Is it Too Early to Book Your Christmas Party? In July this year I ordered the Appletree Christmas cards. Did I do it because I just can’t wait for Christmas to come? No. I did...
How often have you found yourself working with a client who isn’t totally perfect for...
In my travels around the world, I get to speak to many different audiences, work...
Why is it so easy to get marketing wrong? To spend money and not get...
