The Unique Challenge Faced SMEs Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often face the unique challenge of needing top-tier marketing leadership without the financial capacity to recruit full-time C-suite talent. With increasing competition across digital and traditional channels, having the right strategic direction in marketing can be the difference between steady growth and stagnation. For many…

It is well documented that the success rate for a new start-up business is not great.   Out of 10 businesses who launch this year, only 2 of them will still be trading three years from now. What’s more is that only 1 of those 2 businesses will successfully manage to have a longer-term future! So…

Currently there are around 48,000 franchise businesses in the UK , a number which has doubled in the last 25 years, across 900 franchise brands that now employ over 621,000 people (an increase of 70% in last 10 years).  Franchising is big business.   For good reason too. Banks prefer to lend money to franchises as…

Differentiation has always been pivotal to creating successful marketing strategies.  If you refer back to any of our previous blogs, whether the subject is around positioning, customer behaviour, USPs or competition, differentiation always plays a crucial role. However, since we wrote our last blog article a few weeks ago, it feels as if the world has been turned upside down,…

Artificial Intelligence is gradually becoming an important part of our everyday lives. We’ve grown accustomed to talking to Alexa, Siri, Cortana or any other AI-powered digital assistant – we rely on them when we search for information and we trust them when we’re making choices. Still, the way AI is transforming digital marketing transcends the…

Opportunity Marketing Consultant Rachel Proctor is delivering a “measurable marketing” seminar at a forthcoming Networking and Know-how event to be staged at Irwin Mitchell on the morning of Friday 15th November. The occasion will be a growth focused event which combines: Who should attend? Business owners of SMEs, organisation leaders and managers who are looking…