Sales and Marketing
How to Work with Difficult But Important Business Clients
All small business owners have had experiences with difficult clients. It’s a fact of life when you run your own company. Whether these clients are slow with payments, criticize your work, or simply give you…
How to Plan a Successful Media Buying Strategy
In order for your media buying strategy to be successful, you need to identify your target demographic, and then place the right ad in the right place at the right time. Seems simple on paper,…
5 Powerful PR Trends You Should Not Ignore
Don’t have a beard, fixie or some cool headphones. Feeling left out. Then you are maybe not up with the latest fad. But fads are one thing and trends are another. Fads come and go…
Speed Kills!
No, I haven’t become the spokesperson for the National Highway Safety Commission, I’ve had more than my fair share of speeding tickets (and actually far fewer than I deserve.) I just read a horrible piece…
A Losing Strategy: “Our Product is Better Than Theirs”
The other day, I was having breakfast with a frustrated executive. He had just reviewed a playbook that had been developed and was being launched to sales. It was the result of an effort between…
How Small Businesses Can Benefit from Hosting Events
Although marketing has moved in leaps and bounds and is now in the digital age, events still stand out as powerful tools for businesses. A carefully planned and well-executed event can be the catalyst to…
5 Ways to Increase Footfall in ANY Shop
Paying customers is what keeps any business or shop afloat; the more you have, the better. However, there are several stages in the process of a purchase decision and one is getting people through the…
Taking Advantage of the “Unboxing” Phenomenon
As children we are taught time and again to never judge books by their covers. However, it seems that each time human nature prevails and try as we may, the lesson never sticks and covers…