[caption id="attachment_1403" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Do you recognise this scenario? You start your business and you?re not very busy, so you do lots of marketing ? going networking, sending newsletters and mail shots and all the...
[caption id="attachment_1403" align="alignleft" width="85"] Chantal[/caption] On 1 May 2011 I ran a half marathon. I'd never run seriously before I started training last September, yet I finished the run without walking a single step and without...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Listening is a skill that you need to master as part of your marketing. Why? Because you need to listen to what your clients want from you; and because you need...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Running a business takes up a lot of time and energy. There?s a lot to do and a lot to think about. Sometimes you might find that you start to lose...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] As I walked into the shop, the assistant didn?t acknowledge me, as she was busy talking to her friend on the other side of the counter. I started looking for a...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Which is more important, Sales or Marketing? Can you effectively grow your business using one and not the other? If you're on a tight budget, do you put your resources into...
[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...
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] There are many pros and cons to having a blog. Unfortunately, if you mention blogging to the uninitiated, they immediately think of the cons, partly because they don't know the pros....
[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] I've gone back to school again. Getting a qualification in the subject I work in seemed imperative if I am to do justice to Chantal's clients, so I've signed up to...
[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Recently I was out with my husband and his parents, looking for somewhere to get some lunch, on a Sunday, in a town we were passing through . We found pub...
You’ve been working hard on your marketing. You’re speaking the right language and the enquiries...
Business is built on trust. Your prospective clients need to trust you before they’ll buy...
