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...
The Start of Your Marketing Journey – where is your business now?
A lot of people I meet who run small businesses are working really hard to grow those businesses. They are doing loads of marketing, spending lots of their valuable time and quite a bit of their...
How Important is SEO?
What is SEO? I've mentioned SEO a lot in my blogs and thought I would write a blog about why it is so important. SEO, Search Engine Optimization, is a online marketing strategy of improving...
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...
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...
Marketing Apprentice
My Marketing job: The Apprentice Story The past month has been a full serving of busy projects and tasks with a side order of college work. To say the least, I've been busy. Most of...
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...
