Posts Tagged ‘marketing’

I am lucky enough to get to talk to many people in business and share some really great intelligence with them. While this is all very pleasant and valuable I am becoming increasingly vocal about the need to get back to basics and plan success into your business from the get go.

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It was announced today that the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce is holding a Sales & Marketing workshop on 5th October at Great Yarmouth Racecourse. Chris Batten will be delivering the lively and entertaining session, packed full of useful hints and tips. 
The workshop will take place from 10am to 11am, after a scheduled Chamber breakfast…

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I want to talk to you about marketing techniques that work really well for the smaller business and take advantage of the ever growing influence the Web has on all businesses.
In today’s markets you need to concentrate on strategies that centre on being informative and educational rather than just delivering predictable fluff. This is…

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The days of spending big budgets on advertising and media agents has long gone, particularly for the SME. Some of the traditional activities are still important and do have a role but that role continues to change to meet new media and technologies. Most of the smart marketers are now finding ways to talk to…

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The UK is still not ready to embrace advertising that is targeted to our behaviour on the web. A new study released by Addvantage Media shows that over half the UK would opt out of this type of advertising if they were given the choice.
This is a contentious issue because it works based on…

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I have been, and continue to be very vocal when it comes to the importance of what I call the DNA of business, Vision, Mission and Values. It's nice to see that three years after I started to refer to these and the development of culture in business as DNA, that everyone is doing the…

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I hope you enjoyed some time off over the Christmas break. Let me take this opportunity to wish you all the very best for 2010. With that in mind I wanted to start the year by reminding you that you can kick-start your sales for 2010 by doing some free or very low cost marketing…

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I was looking through some old notes over the weekend and I came across some notes I took when I was in a meeting with my first ever business mentor. It’s been so long that I’d almost forgotten what a great help he’d been and how important the lessons I learnt were. So I figured…

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