The Alternative 12 Days of Christmas – or 12 different ways to promote your business next year! On the first day of Christmas my true love … – so you think you know the rest? Here...
The A – Z of Marketing: The Full List At the start of 2014 we started writing the A – Z of Marketing – a series of 26 blogs looking at 26 different marketing topics. Of...
Get Your Marketing Right and You Don't Need to Know How to Sell Ask any Marketing Consultant whether they think marketing is more important than sales and of course they will tell you that it is....
How Can You Use Authentic Marketing To Grow Your Business? So far, 2014 has been a really good year for Appletree. In fact, in terms of profitability, it has been the best year in all the...
How Do You Come Up with Blog Ideas? This is a question I’m asked on a fairly frequent basis. Lack of content and ideas seems to be something that prevents many people from blogging on regularly....
How Do You Write a Book to Market Your Small Business? Recently I was introduced to a lovely lady called Kate, who is a coach and a trainer. She was interested in writing a book in...
In the A - Z of Marketing, Y is for ... You! Many small businesses struggle to work out their USP - unique selling point - that makes them different and makes them stand out from...
Do You Work With Your Competitors or Against Them? Once upon a time there was a very successful business consultant - let's call him William - who ran a number of Retreats for businesses. Every year...
In the A ? Z of Marketing, U is for ... Unique What makes you different? What makes you stand out from all the other people who do exactly what you do? I meet a lot...
Content is Queen When I first set up Appletree back in 2000, I worked as a freelance copywriter. I wrote content for all sorts of marketing material, for all sorts of small businesses. As time has...
Many people I speak to – especially the owners of small service businesses – tell...
If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard someone say “I don’t do...
Recently I ran a workshop about the StandOut Strategies for a group of business owners....
