A Marketing Plan is one of the most important business tools for any company to utilise.  If you are looking for funding to start up a business, a bank will want to understand your marketing plan.  If you are looking for investment to take your business to the next level, and investor will want to…

Customer centric marketing is pivotal when creating a successful sales and marketing strategy.  When it comes to growing your business and improving your bottom line, nothing is more important than knowing what makes your customers and prospects tick. Whatever industry or sector you operate in, understanding and creating semi-fictional characters (more commonly known as personas) that personify…

Email is still a great marketing channel. It consistently outperforms social media and online ads- generating impressive ROI, brand awareness and helps to grow customer loyalty. It’s easily segmented, flexible and allows a brand to reach every customer directly. Even better, email can achieve an impressive $42 for every $1 spent. But while this can be the case, not…

Sometimes it is hard for business owners to understand the value of utilising a marketing professional to assist them.  Today we are going to look at just one area of a company’s marketing communications.  We are going to look at the website and demonstrate the impact a marketing professional can have on its performance. In the…

The marketing promotion “Black Friday” has become a transatlantic marketing phenomenon.  But just because something gets a lot of hype, doesn’t necessarily mean it is right for your business.  In this article we take a look at the marketing monster that is Black Friday.  Here we give you some ways to evaluate whether it may…

When you think of marketing techniques for your business, if you drill all the way down, all you are really looking for is more people to buy your stuff, or the same number of people to buy more of it (or both).  So how can you make that happen? What marketing techniques can you use?…