Sometimes it seems like everyone has an opinion on marketing. Not just marketing experts but other business owners, employees, suppliers, and even your well-meaning friends and family members want to give you marketing tips. There’s advice coming from every direction. Don’t do this, do that. Don’t do that, do this. And it doesn’t help that there always…

The marketplace is littered with a plethora of marketing companies.  Some are very niche by the sectors they serve. Some are very specialist in the services that they offer.  Many of them are more generalist marketing companies who are a “Jack of all trades”. The pandemic has had a major impact on many sectors, industries and…

It would be stating the obvious, during our current times, that finding ways to grow a business is a challenge.  With restrictions and guidelines constantly changing, is there any point in businesses even trying to plan for the future?     As 2021 beckons, taking time to craft an approach that combines both a marketing strategy and supporting marketing…

Doesn’t it feel that digital marketing has taken over the world?  There are more niche digital marketing agencies around these days that plain old marketing agencies.  The irony in it is that general marketing agencies are becoming “niche specialists” because they embrace such a wide channel base (traditional as well as digital).  So, surely, if everyone is…

Marketing ideas are plentiful.  Whether you are a business owner, a marketing professional, or simply a consumer, we all have those moments of inspiration when we come up with a killer marketing idea for a company or brand or new venture.  Depending on your personality type, you will either “sit on it” and it never sees…

Do you have some clear marketing tactics for the next 90 days? If not, why not? The chances are if you don’t know what they are, then nothing will happen. In effect, you won’t be doing anything to proactively market your business. The net result of this is that you are unlikely to show any signs of…