Don?t sell me X, sell me Y
What do you really sell? If you?re a Marketing Consultant, do you really sell Marketing Consultancy? Is that what people actually buy from you? Here?s an exercise you can use to get a fresh look on...
More marketing methods for Twitter
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Twitter is designed for communication and interaction. It isn't somewhere just to tweet about what you're doing or to thrust your latest blog post into the limelight. This is as bad as putting up...
What sort of thing can you write about in your newsletter?
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] In my spare time I read all sort of things, and one of them is the National Trust magazine. It has recently been redesigned, bright, colourful and modern, but the thing...
Popularity, sociability and desire
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] The Royal Wedding has been a really 'big' thing during the past month, not just here in jolly old Blighty, but absolutely massive in the States. They haven't got a Royal...
The 55%, 38%, 7% rule is rubbish!
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Many people quote the fact that only 7% of communication comes from the words you use. They will tell you that 55% of communication comes from body language and that 38%...
What’s your definition of marketing?
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Philip Kotler?s definition is: ?Marketing is the social process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others.? Of course...
How do you succeed in Twitter?
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Twitter, as with all social networking, is only as good as its player. How you use it depends on your mind-set, goals and aspirations, friendly and sociable disposition, altruism and willing...
What does a website review involve?
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] I'm doing several website reviews this week. The main brief is to find out whether each website attracts the right kind of customer, and whether the right message is being put...
How would a blog work in the 19th century?
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Blogging is definitely a 21st century phenomenon. So why am I thinking of it in Victorian terms? Quite some time ago I posted a question on LinkedIn asking how would a...
