Latest Blog

Is your marketing joined up?

[caption id="attachment_153" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Last week I ran a couple of workshops at a business event and we talked about all sorts of different marketing activities. We talked about the fact that whatever marketing you do, it...

CSR ? the next step from Dianne, Admin Assistant at Appletree

[caption id="attachment_337" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Dianne"][/caption] I was welcomed to the Newbury Volunteer Centre by Garry Poulson the Director. I was hoping that he would be able to come up with a project for me to work...

Is Social Media a Waste of Time?

[caption id="attachment_153" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] When I first learnt about Twitter, I heard about how a number of celebrities where using it and how they were telling the world about the mundane things they were getting...

Can you use a book as a business card?

[caption id="attachment_153" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] I've been thinking about writing a book for years. What's stopped me so far have been the questions I asked myself, like "Why would anyone want to read what I write?"...

Promoting your business through CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)

[caption id="attachment_153" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] We?ve been working with a CSR consultant, Jo Sandford from Creating Synergy, to look at what CSR we?ve been doing in our business and what else we can do. Jo knew...

Are you listening to your customers?

[caption id="attachment_153" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] I recently went to a presentation on social media. The introduction was given by the local mayor who was full of negativity about the dismal start of the economic outlook. He...

When not to network

[caption id="attachment_153" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Is there a time not to go networking? Yesterday we had a really busy day in the office, with some tricky issues to sort out. By 5pm I was ready for...

What’s special about Appletree?

Why not start off a new blog with a video testimonial? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooo_lgEJ0Xw] In this blog we (Appletree Marketing) will be exploring the many facets of marketing and how it can help up and coming businesses who...