The most common mistake businesses make with their marketing.
I’ve consulted with over a hundred businesses and if you add in all the sales enquiries I’ve had on top – that’s a lot of marketing problems. I covered The #2 biggest mistake businesses make with their marketing (yup there are only 2 big mistakes). Trying marketing techniques constantly without strategy, consistency or persistence and […]
Reading List for Business Messaging, Marketing & Personal Brand. (My favourites as a Marketing Consultant)
Business books can be… sketchy. Often they’ll take 6 hours to say what could be said in a quick paragraph. But there’s some gold out there. I myself am a self-taught marketer and find books more valuable than any course. Once you become well-read in your field, you read differently – more critically and knowledgable, […]
The #2 biggest mistake businesses make with their marketing
I’ve worked with a lot of different businesses, and I’ve consulted with even more. There are two evil twin sisters that keep cropping up in each preliminary call that I have with a new client, and they always say: “Come and play with us Katie” And I’ll be honest, I used to go in and […]
How to be a happy freelancer
I’ve been a freelance digital marketer for around 8 years. At 27, I left my job as an agency marketing manager and took the plunge to become self-employed. I dived in head first, and I didn’t know what awaited me. Working in an agency, I had a good idea about the types of businesses out […]
Is marketing….evil?
I was scrolling through Facebook the other day when I saw some sponsored content by a widely-used website building company. The blog was about how to use persuasion science in your marketing techniques – aka ‘neuromarketing’ and pretty much everyone responded with “but that’s evil! Here’s a marketing strategy for you – if you have […]
‘Why aren’t my Facebook Ads converting?’
I’ve worked with so many businesses this year on their Facebook ads. Some have been wildly successful, some have been unable to produce a profitable campaign. Mostly, we get there in the end after a few months of testing and working things out. Businesses with successful social ad campaigns are happy as a lamb in […]
What’s the Vision?
Vision is a hugely under-discussed part of marketing. Business begins with vision, and it’s carried through into everything you do.As a marketer, it’s really difficult to work with companies who lack vision and it’s something that I look out for when I’m choosing a client to collaborate with. It tends to be present in businesses […]
Beyond business growth. What happens next?
All businesses, large and small, come to me to fix a very specific business problem: They need, or would like more customers. Whenever I’m consulting with a new client, I always find that the following question is the most telling about where they are on their business journey: ‘How many new customers do you want?’ […]
Brand tone of voice – Definition, consistency and integrity
I had an interesting Q+A session the other day. During which a lady asked me what was appropriate to post on social media, should we refrain from posting about social topics? “Well” I said “If it’s relevant to your brand then post it, if it’s not, then don’t.” “But I don’t want to be all […]
Most marketing is unprofitable
Most marketing is unprofitable. Notice I said marketing, not businesses. There are actually a lot of businesses who get by with little to no marketing success, but it makes client acquisition a graft. I wonder what percentage of businesses are actually thriving with marketing? As in, they’re exceeding their sales forecasts. When they want to […]