The Grand National: Good marketing can have your business winning the race
With the Grand National this weekend, offices around the country have sorted their sweepstakes and the bookies have taken their bets. Around 500 million people will sit down to watch the race, which is broadcast in over 140 countries. Bear with us here, but horse racing is not all that dissimilar to marketing. If you […]
International Women’s Day- great marketing or politics?
More and more brands are joining forces when it came to International Women’s Day… This renewed focus on female empowerment and gender equality is providing brands and marketers with both an opportunity and a challenge in terms of authentic association. For some brands this is a perfect opportunity to piggyback with their marketing! L’oreal’s famous “You’re […]
10 Questions to Ask Before You Press Send
Sending an email marketing campaign? Wait! Before you click send and your 10,000-strong database receives your email, have you checked everything? Mistakes cause damage to your reputation – inaccurate links or poor spelling and grammar are amongst the worst of the worst! You can download our quick reference guide – 10 Questions to Ask Before […]
Content marketing – redefining communications with your client
Content marketing is currently the most popular, effective and one of the most successful methods of marketing communication with clients. It enables you to build trust and loyalty- two values that are of the up most importance for brands that want to stay on the top. Content, not advertisement! Classic advertisements, year after year, are […]
10 Myths About Marketing – Debunked!
It is surprising how many myths and misconceptions there are surrounding marketing. We have identified 10 myths and hope we have given reason as to why they are simply not true. Myth 1: Advertising is the same as marketing. No! Advertising is the process of buying space or time in mediums such as newspapers, direct […]
Twitter- seven deadly sins of marketing communication
Image: Courtesy of Limebridge This simple communicator has very quickly gained tremendous popularity worldwide. It benefits not only brands, but also sports and music celebrities, politicians and journalists. It even became a key communication tool during many modern revolutions and wars, as it provides users with privacy and allows them to spread their messages anonymously. […]
Getting Started with Email Marketing
Email Marketing is thought of as one of the most successful tools when it comes to brand building and converting prospects into customers. It’s not only powerful in reach, but also very cost effective. In the era of unsubscribes and customers being highly attuned to the ways marketing messages are thrown at them from every […]
The 10 commandments of building a brand
A branding strategy should be even more important for small businesses than for large corporations. With a little or ‘non-existence’ budget, the brand has to work harder than ever to succeed and become memorable in people minds. Unfortunately, this is a point that the vast majority of small business’ owners seem to forget. Small business […]
Content marketing- Good things happen to those who wait
Nihil novi from Latin or in other words- nothing new. Digital marketing these days seems to be all about the SEO, optimisation and content. A lot of companies and indeed agencies seem to take it to heart, however never for long enough for it to bring the desired results. The misunderstanding of the concept […]
Marketing made simple
There is far more to marketing than selling or advertising. Put simply, marketing is about identifying and satisfying customer needs more than anything else. To us, marketing is based on thinking about the business not only in terms of customers’ needs but also their satisfaction. Seth Godin, one of the modern day marketing guru’s defined […]
