15 June 2024
Our Simple Guide to Determining Whether Your Pricing Strategy is Right
Pricing your product or service can feel like a guessing game. Charge too much, and customers vanish. Charge too little, and you leave money on the table. But fret not! Here’s a simple guide to help you determine if your pricing strategy is hitting the sweet spot. 1. Know Your Costs (Inside and Out) This…
14 June 2019
Why Are Robust Processes Critical to Marketing Success?
Whatever anyone says, Marketing is merely a process. It is not a dark art, and anyone pretending that there is a “secret marketing formula” for success, is talking cobblers. Marketing is actually a very logical process. You are simply creating a defined product and service for a defined audience and then putting the mechanisms in…
18 December 2018
Why Marketing Communications Need to Get Inside the Customer’s Mind
When is the last time you created any marketing communications for your business? It may have been a website, landing page, e-shot, social media post or a promotional campaign. The chances are it will have been in the last week or so. Now have a think about how you settled on the final design and…
8 May 2018
Why Everyone in Your Business Should Live and Breathe Your Mission, Vision and Values
Your mission, vision and values are what define your business and can steer the manner in which you operate. However, we often find that many businesses either don’t have any in place, or they simply remain amongst senior staff and aren’t communicated to employees throughout the entire business. While on the surface either of these situations…
23 September 2016
Does Flyering Work for Small Business? Here’s What You Should Know
Every business needs to get the word out there about who they are and what they do. Between social networks and online deal sites, digital platforms are popular for reaching customers. But traditional aspects of the promotional mix are by no means dead. For instance, let’s take a look at flyers, and see how one of the oldest methods…
19 August 2016
How to Create a Successful Call Sales Pitch
In 2016, the sales call is a divisive subject. For some, it’s an instant turn-off, frequently described as dead. For many others, though, it’s still very much a part of a winning sales strategy. No matter how certain statistics may stack up against it, sales calling still has the potential to convert. So if you’re not turning that potential…