If you’re a business owner, then marketing is probably something you have on your radar - even if you’re not doing it right now. But if what you’re good at has nothing to do with marketing, then how are you supposed to know what would be a good marketing strategy?...
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What Is Ansoff’s Matrix?
When it comes to marketing, there are a lot of different tools and techniques you can use to design an effective marketing strategy. Some of them you may have heard of before, like the SWOT analysis, but others are less well known – though no less valuable. Just one...
What Are The Benefits Of Media Relations?
When we say ‘media relations’, what do you think of? If you watch a lot of TV shows, you might think it’s a job in the police service to communicate with the press about cases. If you’re in business, you might think it’s basically the same thing as PR. Or you may have...
The Complete Guide to Email Newsletters
When it comes to marketing your business, there are a lot of things you need to think about. To be honest, once you go down the marketing rabbit hole it’s easy to become overwhelmed with the number of things you could be doing to spread awareness of your business. But...
What Is A PESTEL Analysis? (And How To Do One)
When it comes to marketing there are lots of tools and techniques you can use to help you in designing and implementing your marketing strategy. A lot of them you might have heard of, even if it’s just in passing. Things like a SWOT Analysis, Customer Analysis, or...
What Is Local SEO And Why Is It Important?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade, you’ve probably heard of SEO. Even if you’re not 100% sure what it means, most business owners have come across SEO at one point or another. As a quick catch up, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and...
How Storytelling Can Inform Your Marketing Strategy
We’ve talked before about just how powerful storytelling can be in the world of marketing. Stories are the thing that binds us together over the years, from when we’re tiny babies until we’re old and infirm, sharing our stories with the grandkids. But it can also be...
What is a SWOT Analysis (and how to do one)
Sorry, this blog isn’t anything to do with military tactics! In the world of marketing, a SWOT analysis is one of the most common and powerful marketing tools a business can have – but it’s also one of the more unknown. It’s a way to evaluate your company, a project...
Why Having a Marketing Strategy is Important
In the world of business, there are a lot of things that are labelled as ‘vitally important’ to success. Usually, it’s things like cash flow or having a business plan, but in our opinion, marketing strategy needs to be added to that list. Any successful company you...