Posts Tagged ‘marketing’

Win or lose, analysing your CRM database is a must

Posted: May 9th, 2012 by Daryl Jay comment-icon 0

When did you last analyse your CRM database for the effectiveness of your suspect- to- prospect- to- client conversion process?

Mastering Your Marketing Message

Posted: May 1st, 2012 by Julie Knight comment-icon 0

There’s just one important matter to tackle – your marketing message. This is usually encapsulated in your sales letter

All Hail Direct Mail! CIM Announces Comeback Kid

Posted: April 4th, 2012 by Suzanne Stock comment-icon 0

If you fall into the category of business folk of the opinion that direct mail has had its heyday, or perhaps instead you’ve pigeon holed business to business direct mail

Why CRM is about customers not systems

Posted: March 1st, 2012 by Daryl Jay comment-icon 2

Many businesses in the business to business sector are understandably baffled by the widely bandied phrase CRM. What does it mean? This neat definition from Wikipedia explains it in a nutshell:  “CRM is a strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. The overall goals are to find, attract, and win new clients,… Read more »

Keep an open-mind about your choice of marketing channel

Posted: February 16th, 2012 by Suzanne Stock comment-icon 1

So, in this particular blog I am asking that you step outside your marketing comfort zone, and look at two traditional channels to market

Why Market Research Must Be Meaty

Posted: January 20th, 2012 by Daryl Jay comment-icon 2

Let’s imagine for a moment you’ve decided to introduce a new service. You steam ahead and implement this service without doing any market research.

Marketing In Tough Times Part Three: Maintaining Your Prices & Your Nerve!

Posted: December 14th, 2011 by Julie Knight comment-icon 0

You’re not alone if you’ve considered updating your marketing plan and lowering your prices as a knee-jerk reaction to the double dip recession we keep hearing about in the news.

Marketing In Tough Times Part Two: Your Vital Marketing Audit

Posted: November 30th, 2011 by Julie Knight comment-icon 0

In the current unforgiving climate, you have to be razor-sharp with your marketing if you are to reach businesses, make sales and plan powerful marketing campaigns on shoestring budgets.

Marketing In Tough Times! Part One In A Special Three-Part Series

Posted: November 22nd, 2011 by Julie Knight comment-icon 1

You need to be marketing your business with a vengeance … starting with your existing customers.

Why Marketers Must Go Back To Basics

Posted: November 16th, 2011 by Suzanne Stock comment-icon 0

When responses are slow to materialise it’s tempting to search for the one big marketing miracle that can somehow transform the fortunes of the business – that one tactic, tool or strategy that can accelerate your marketing responses into the stratosphere. But in the real business to business world, savvy marketers know that being brilliant at the basics is the way forwards.

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