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My Marketing Isn’t Working – New Video
NEW Video My Marketing Isn’t Working
Find out why so much B2B marketing is ineffective and what you can do about it.
“My Marketing Isn’t Working” is the most common reason given by B2B companies for poor sales growth. This new video takes a strategic view of the challenges facing many B2B companies trying to improve their marketing.
“B2B companies get trapped into thinking marketing is just about promoting their products and services. Their understanding… Continue reading
Marketing and The Law – Where Do You Stand?
- How to manage risk in marketing, advertising and communications
- The UK Copyright Service
- Marketing and advertising: the law
There are legal implications to marketing everywhere. Whether employing a photographer, web or graphic designer, PR company, consultant, using customer databases or simply ticking ‘Yes’ to T&Cs when using internet services. All these have legal implications you need to be aware of. Below are three useful sources of information about Marketing and The Law.
How to… Continue reading
Does Your Business Display High Growth Potential?
See how well your company performed in the last 12 months against ten of the most common high growth business criteria. Simply answer the 10 questions as either True or False for your business. After each question there are additional notes about these high growth characteristics.
Market Ignorance Isn’t Bliss
Market Ignorance Isn’t Bliss
I am again reminded through my business growth coaching work, of the huge value of having up to date high quality market intelligence. I am equally reminded just how difficult market ignorance makes it for companies to establish viable business growth plans.
Sitting around a table with company Directors trying to help them set long term business growth objectives and identifying viable strategies for achieving them, is… Continue reading
Boosting the Competitiveness of Business Strategy
Boosting the Competitiveness of Business Strateg
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Good Strategy / Bad Strategy
Unfortunately over time the term ‘strategy’ has perhaps become the most misused and misunderstood word in the business dictionary. It has become confused with the missions, visions, goals, ambition, values and planning of business. It has been applied to just about every type of plan for every type of business activity regardless of whether or not it addresses a specific challenge or addresses… Continue reading
Business Social Media – Worthwhile or Worthless?
Business So
cial Media – now let’s be clear about one thing:
What I am talking about here is business social media. That’s not to be confused with the sort of trivia kids and adults alike might post on Facebook about the minutiae of their personal lives for friends and relatives. Nor do I mean the real time Tweets of minor celebrities telling us what they had for… Continue reading
Positioned For Success – Market Positioning
What Exactly is Market Positioning?
Every business holds a ‘position’ in its market. Market Positioning is generally considered as: ‘The customer perception of how competing suppliers are comparatively positioned relative to key buying criteria’
However, whilst customer perception remains perhaps the most important determinant of market positioning, there are other market positioning aspects that can be considered such as; competitor performance, markets & products. I will cover these later.
What Impact is Your Market… Continue reading
Aston Martin – Lessons in Branding
This iconic and ‘Cool’ award winning company celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. I was lucky enough to get a 3 hour VIP tour of the Gaydon factory and see this aspirational brand close up. The Aston Martin factory is everything you might want it to be, ultra-modern, clinically clean, light airy, perfectly organised, oozing sophistication from every pore and producing cars of impeccable design and build quality. The sort of place that ticks… Continue reading
Start Up’s Same Old Story
Most owners of start ups have never run their own business before and many fail to invest in themselves and learn the skills they will need and prepare to do business properly.
I don’t know why so many people assume they will be able to run a successful business having never done so before, but a huge number do and this reflects in the high level of business failures. In fact a staggering… Continue reading
Why We Don’t Blog & Why We Should
In all faith I put this blog on my humble website with the full intention of adding to it once a week. So much for that resolution. I can make excuses, I have been busy, I have been to bed, clients chasing deadlines etc, etc etc etc. But the truth is blogging hasn’t become a priority yet in my life or indeed I tell myself (mistakenly) for my business. My clients don’t tend to read… Continue reading