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How to Make Strategic Thinking Work for you

A Strategy is a plan that is designed to help you achieve a long-term goal. Which means when ‘thinking strategically’ during your planning process you should have your goals in mind to create a well thought out plan.

Best Practices for New Firms When It Comes to Digital Marketing for Startups

Digital marketing is leveraging startups and nonprofits in so many ways. Nowadays, starting new ventures doesn’t sound as scary as in the age of yellow pages and TV commercials. Organisations, non-profits, and brands do not need brick and mortar setup but just a foul-proof and sustainable digital marketing strategy to flourish.

 

How to build brand loyalty

The power of loyalty is an often-overlooked concept when building and maintaining a brand. While no one can deny its power, creating loyalty is complex and many businesses struggle to achieve it. Research has proven that the cost of attracting a new customer is as much as five times more than keeping an existing one, so developing trust and loyalty should be an investment every company makes. But how exactly do you create meaningful relationships with your customers that evoke loyalty and secure future sales?

Why B2G Marketing is the Perfect Choice for Businesses in 2022

Perhaps now, more than ever before, B2G marketing is crucial. The government has committed to spending billions of pounds over the coming years in order to ‘level up’ and alleviate somewhat of the financial stress caused the by the ongoing pandemic, meaning there will be government contracts galore – welcome news for business owners around the country.

Leveraging data to boost your digital business platform

Businesses need to stay ahead of the game. Whether you market yourself as practical or technologically complex, it is vital that you keep up to data with the latest tech to further your sales.

Don’t Underutilise Social Media When Looking to Make a Startup a Success Story

If the goal is to make your startup a success story, the last thing you want to do is underutilise social media. Platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, and Tiktok present sizable opportunities to grow brand awareness, better customer service, and increase sales.

Brands are Changing the Way They Connect with Consumers

As brands aim to connect with consumers, they have to stand out among the crowd. With the average consumer seeing up to 10,000 ads a day, brands constantly fight for consumers’ attention with print and digital ads among a slew of other content on social media apps as they scroll — not to mention trying to stand out with unique product design and brand appeal.

Why we don’t need another social media platform to communicate with teams

Ineffective communication at work has the potential to be extremely damaging to productivity. It opens opportunities for misunderstandings, misinformation and conflict and can turn small problems into big issues.

Transform Your Business Marketing Strategy

When it comes to running a successful, customer-focused business, a strong marketing strategy is key.

Strategy made simple – getting the fundamentals right

Strategy isn’t always the easiest thing to get your head around. But it is always important. Especially for early-stage founders who are short on time and resources, and the future looks like a vast expanse of shiny opportunities.

Marketing Agency v. Hiring In-House – Which Is Best For Your Startup?

Marketing is a key part of any strong business plan, and essential to the growth of your startup – but where do you begin? Firstly, you must decide whether your business will build an in-house team or outsource to an agency is an important decision that affects the future of your company; the source will really impact the efficiency and effectiveness of your marketing campaign, depending on a few key determinants!

How A-players will help you scale your business

As a business owner, you are the captain of your ship. But ensuring your company is consistently moving in the right direction, especially as you start to scale, means you simply cannot do it alone. Sustained success in business needs a talented team of people with the right skills and perspectives to maintain company value.

Top Tips on content marketing in 2022

At the beginning of every year, we see a new range of marketing trends that we should keep an eye on throughout the year. This year is no exception with social media and tools such as AR still growing and developing, here are some top tips on content marketing in 2022.

Reasons to avoid 'greenwashing' your business
Reasons to avoid ‘greenwashing’ your business

Increasing numbers of businesses are choosing to make sustainability a top priority. However, many are deploying deceptive tactics which amount to nothing more than a façade of sustainability.

4 steps to an email marketing campaign

Marketing expert Philip Bacon shares his four-step beginner’s guide to building a successful email marketing campaign.

The Essentials of Startup Branding

Building a brand is an essential step to building a startup. Here are the essentials of startup branding you should know in 2022.

Women in the workplace
This article is part 24 of 27 in the series IWD 2022

As a nation, it’s important for us to raise awareness about the biases that exist, and to take action towards equality. 

Here’s why it’s hard to do your own marketing

The more conversations I have with other marketers, the clearer it becomes. It’s hard to do your expert work for yourself. Here’s how to fix it. 

Digital marketing for startups: How to pick an agency

A common, yet nice-to-have problem for many start-ups that have just closed a funding round is – where to invest the money?

3 green tips from ‘world’s most sustainable company’

Schneider Electric’s seminar at Sustainability LIVE invited the audience to join its journey to net zero. Ranked as the ‘world’s most sustainable company’ in 2021 by Corporate Knights Global with an overall score of 83.2%, its Energy & Sustainability Director, Barry Hurst, offered advice on how to make your business greener.