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Business Marketing in the UK and Ireland

whisper.jpgSome people think that they need to tell the world they are here - they don't. Let them go and shout in the street, whilst you concentrate on whispering suggestively into the ear of your customers.

Successful marketing is all important to the success of your business. Many entrepeneurs and businessmen have a flair for marketing, but need professional help to ensure that they invest wisely in marketing and get the best possible results.

We've compiled the following articles to explain our approach and to highlight some common issues and problems that we observe and solve.

We're experienced marketeers. Not only that, we know what its like run a businesses - we're run them too (both big and small). We advise businesses on marketing and manage the marketing for a number of our clients. How can we help you?



So you want to sell more? PDF Print E-mail
businessman.jpgYou have the power beat your competitors. Your global sales team is more than a match for any other....and yet you lose. Not always, but sometimes - more often than you'd like.

You've got a great product. You've hired a top-class sales team and trained them well. You've armed them with a great CRM system and yet .... you still don't win every deal you should. Worse still, you look at some of the deals you lost and you want to scream. "Surely we could have done better that that". "We should have won!"

You might think the answer is "more training" but its not. Or "more incentives" but it's not that either, or "better management". No - Your sales team need help.

On a daily basis they confront difficult customer problems (some of these may be very technical), which they cannot be expected to fully understand. And yet they need to find a better solution than your competitors can offer. They don't need to understand, but they do need Insight - so that they can beat your competitors and offer the best solution for the customer and you. What's more, they need that Insight right now, and at any time of day or night.

It's a tall order. But don't worry your solution is at hand.

 
What is it? PDF Print E-mail
not_lies_not_truth.jpgI know a word. You know it too. But it means something different to me that in does to you. And that's a shame.

For this word describes skills that you need to run your business successfully. As an entrepreneur you'll already have some of these skills, but you may need some help. For this word describes a profession too - its my profession.

The skills, the profession, the word is ...

 
Do you want a new car? PDF Print E-mail

man.jpgJust imagine if you received this sales call. "We have just the car for you. Its got all the features you want and its in your style and colour". You'd be a little sceptical and would ask "How are you so sure?". I am certain that you'd then be amazed to hear the caller reply. "Well you're the same as everyone else you want the same as everyone else don't you?"

In a word, "No". If ever there was a policy sure to fail; its to treat your customers as if they are identical. They are not. But many businesses do just that, sometimes unwittingly, read on and see what I mean.