When people hear the word “Marketing” they often think of all the creative outputs of marketing – TV advertising, big brands, websites, digital campaigns, glossy brochures and all that sexy stuff that oozes creativity. You will often hear marketing departments get called the “pretty picture” parade, or if someone asks what the marketing team are…

Marketing is an area of business that is widely misunderstood.  If you ask 100 small business owners what “marketing” means to them, you will get a plethora of different answers that range from advertising, selling, branding, “make you look good”, PR, social media, websites and Google – and you will probably get the odd one…

The marketing gap, very simply, is the difference between where you currently are and where you are trying to get to.  This void is what you want your marketing activity to generate.  If you don’t know what this marketing gap is – how can you expect anyone to fill it? In order, for any marketer,…

In a world of vast marketing budgets, newspaper ads and national T.V. spots, it can feel like a small business has very few options when it comes to advertising. But the truth is, small business marketing doesn’t have to be super expensive to be profitable. In fact, there are plenty of ways to put your offering in…

Websites, they seem to be the be all and end all for businesses these days. Granted they’ve been a fundamental part of the setup process of businesses for a long while but with internet access now being readily available whenever and where ever for many people, the need to have an online presence has grown…

Marketing is a discipline in business which is largely misunderstood.  This isn’t just confined to the SME sector where there is a clear lack of skills and knowledge surrounding the “dark art”.  Many large corporates make massive mistakes with their marketing strategy and quite often this is down to an inconsistency in marketing activity on an ongoing basis.  This…