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Top 10 Tips

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We believe in simplifying business issues - only then can they be communicated successfully and widely leading to action. Our series of top 10 tips are drawn from a wide range of experience and sources to act as a checklist reminder of some key issues:

10 Email Campaign Tips

  • Value your recipients

  • Move away from blanket campaigns

  • Collect preferences at sign-up time

  • Use personalised content

  • Vary the email content

  • Use automated 1-2-1 campaigns triggered by events

  • "7 points of contact before a sale" rule

  • Send welcome campaigns to new subscribers

  • Target recently active subscribers differently

  • Look at your replies



10 Common Website Mistakes

  • Bells and Whistles

  • Not capturing visitor details

  • Not following up emails

  • Not using statistics

  • Failure to test

  • Failure to create traffic

  • No differentiation or passion

  • Not having a web strategy

  • Weak content

  • No Call to Action


10 Tips for a Great Business

  • Be creative, but not for its own sake

  • Think bolder than your client would

  • Stay small enough to give personal service

  • Get inside your clients socks

  • Know many things that your client doesn't

  • See every brief as a way to prove yourselves

  • Have people who are a pleasure to work with

  • Make your clients feel like one of your team

  • Charge for the big ideas, not the big offices

  • Take your own medicine regularly


10 Questions for Boards on Marketing

  • Do we know and understand our key markets?

  • Do we address real segments in our key target markets?

  • Do we know what our sources of differential advantage are in each segment and market?

  • Do we agree on the prioritisation of our markets and the segments?

  • Are the objectives for revenue growth and market share realistic?

  • Are our strategies (including products, services & solutions) consistent with the objectives

  • Have we assessed the risks associated with our strategic marketing plan?

  • Does the strategic plan create or destroy shareholder value?

  • Have we agreed the effectiveness metrics we want reported on?

  • Is the time, effort and expense in developing marketing strategies worth it?



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3 Week after week you will get new thinking, perspective on current and urgent situations, help in making the hard decisions necessary to lead your company into a new decade.
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8 You will begin to think more creatively and learn how to ask for input from multiple sources.
9 You will benefit from a network of resources I, as a coach, have developed over the years.  I will only lead you to resources I can honestly claim to know and believe you might benefit from.
10 You will learn new techniques for problem solving as coaching is on the forefront of business thinking and sustainable ideas and practices.

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