[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Blogs are hard work. They require consistent updating to make them successful, and unless you love or excel in writing skills, the effort required can be daunting. Perhaps you feel you...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Someone on LinkedIn asked a question if blogs are businesses. Many of the answers wittered on about affiliate and sponsored advertising, as if making money made your blog a business. I...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] One factor facing marketing today that is not accommodated adequately by businesses is that it needs to take time to succeed. So many companies confuse it with sales and expect immediate...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] A question from LinkedIn presented this subject, and I duly responded with these following points. They are in no particular order, just as they came out of my head. This information...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Here are some tips on various selling techniques. Controversially I'm treating them like my marketing methods: building relationships, spreading expertise and gaining credibility, as these attributes can all be used in...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] This is a good subject for start-ups and very small businesses who don?t have a large budget to work with. The first free marketing method is networking. Go to as many...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Each one of these social networking sites has its own merits when it comes to business use. They are all individual, have a totally different target audience, and have their own...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] This scenario arose from one of our new clients, which I would like to share with you. They migrated from their previous newsletter system to JAC, Appletree's version, and consequently were issued...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] How do men do it? Having been to quite a few networking meetings, I've seen that men are really good at going into a room full of people and starting up...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] I've been tweeting about the difference between marketing and sales, and that they're not the same: the former is about gaining relationships, spreading expertise and maintaining credibility; the latter is about...
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...
