Can You Make an Impact in 40 Seconds?
When you deliver your short, 40-60 second pitch at networking events, do people come up to you wanting to know more, or do they just yawn and turn the conversation onto themselves? If you?d like to...
What?s Your Mojo? Why do You do What You do?
When someone asks about your business, do you tell them what you do and how you do it? Does that create the right picture, leaving people wanting to know and wanting to work with you? If...
Video Your Presentations to Improve Your Performance
In November 2011 I ran a full day workshop all about Marketing Planning. During the day I was filmed and we?ve been editing the different sections, so that we can share the content from the workshop...
Networking ? the Final Piece of the Marketing Puzzle
When people ask me how many different marketing tools they should be using, my answer is usually ?Somewhere between 5 and 10.? Why? Because it can take a number of ?hits? before someone is ready to...
Are you riding the feast and famine rollercoaster?
Are you riding the feast and famine rollercoaster? ?I can?t write a newsletter this month because I?ve got too much work to do.? ?I can?t afford to go networking because I don?t have enough money coming...
How to get more from LinkedIn
My thanks go to Tim Bond from Network Sunday for the tips he shared at a workshop I attended in April. He started by asking all of us the following questions: Do you have a LinkedIn...
Why now is a great time to do marketing planning
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...
The Power of Your Voice
At a recent networking lunch. I was lucky enough to enjoy a presentation from Laurelle Rond, who runs a sound therapy clinic in Oxfordshire. Laurelle was an amazing speaker, with confidence to stand up in a room full...
Long Term Marketing
I recently had a very interesting meeting with a website designer, who is looking for help with creating social media content for his clients. When I got thinking about how we came to be having this...
When a workshop is more than just a workshop
If you offer any kind of service to customers, running workshops are a great way of marketing yourself and your business. They inform and advise and can act as a great way of speaking directly to...
