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...
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...
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...
Why Create Content Marketing?
It's all about the content these days, and where you deliver it. From a host of stats from Google recently, this one caught my eye: 50% of consumers use a combination of search and social media...
Ideal Business Clients
What Are Ideal Business Clients? Every business has its 'ideal clients' - those people or businesses that you want to work with and work most effectively for. Who those ideal clients are is different for every...
The Marketing Golden Ticket
Here's a clever idea I heard recently to encourage more people to go to your website. In March I gave a presentation at an FSB event that was all about using the Internet to grow your...
