How Can an Ebook Promote Your Business?
A book is a powerful way of promoting your business. It's like a giant business card that shares your knowledge and experience with your potential clients. Writing a whole book can be a daunting task, so...
Planning to Make an Impact with Your Marketing? Use Lumpy Mail
We've recently received a number of mail shots at Appletree - so of them bad, some of them worse and only one of them really great. What makes them different? I think it's the planning that's...
Why is Marketing Like Running a Marathon?
Last summer I set myself a goal for this year. I decided that, having taken up running about 2½ years ago, this would be the year that I would run my first marathon. I created a...
Why Bother with a Marketing Plan?
At the end of October 2012 I started writing a series of blogs all about Marketing Planning and in this blog, I'll give you a summary of all the points I've covered. But first - why...
Why Are You Working for Clients Who Don’t Appreciate You?
"I didn't realise that I don't have to work with clients who don't appreciate me!" This is what one of the delegates said at a workshop we ran earlier this year, when we were helping people...
What is Integrated Marketing?
Integrated marketing is the strategy of bringing together multiple marketing tools to give the most effective results. Using various methods to market your business is a good thing, but are they all giving the same message?...
Look After Your Clients and They’ll Look After You
"I need to find new clients." This is something I hear all the time from business people I meet. "What's the best way to do it?" they ask me. In my blog of 10 October 2012...
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...
Business Rites of Passage
I read a great article today in one of the nationals (a printed version no less!) about an ingenious set of challenges for the writers? soon-to-be teenage son. He wanted more independence, more money, and more...
