Go Beyond Your Customers’ Expectations with These Strategies

Every brand needs to meet the expectations of its customers to gain and maintain a good reputation. However, just meeting the basic expectations of your customers may not be enough if you really want to stand out from your competitors. To make more of an impression, you might have to think about how you can … Continue reading

Tips That Will Boost Your New Pest Control Business

When starting a pest control business, you’ll be most effective if you check your local community’s needs and invest accordingly. A pest control business requires sufficient skills and knowledge; therefore, make sure you are well equipped to handle the pest problems you encounter. You’ll also need to invest in different equipment and chemicals depending on … Continue reading

Avoid these Mistakes When Online Brand Building for your Business

Online brand building has been important for many years. Small businesses should be re-creating and implementing an online brand building strategy annually. If you’re a business owner, then you probably know the importance of online brand building and creating a strong brand. But it is one thing knowing and quite another thing reaping those benefits. … Continue reading

A Luxury Brand Is A Cut Above: So What’s Needed To Market One?

luxury brand

The most difficult aspect of running a business, especially a luxury brand, isn’t just in relation to the marketing or the product, it’s about creating an experience. Creating the experience for potential customers can prove to be a challenge because you’re trying to entice people who belong in certain demographic – the luxury brand cohort. … Continue reading

Your Brand… and The People Who Make It Happen

your brand

Your brand is the single most important and compelling component of your business. It’s importance, and how to build a brand, must never be underestimated. One thing we can all agree on in the 21st century is that a strong sense of branding is important. Your brand is what differentiates you from your competitors and … Continue reading

Your Local Market; Take It By Storm!

local market

Your local market is one of the most important market sectors to focus on when marketing your business. Why? As a business owner, you’ve got a lot on your plate. You have loads of tasks to get done everyday. But most of all, you’ve got marketing campaigns to roll out on a regular basis, and … Continue reading

Online Marketing Campaigns to Consider for Your Small Business

Online marketing campaigns have risen to the top of our marketing consciousness. Myriad options provide opportunities but also confusion for the average small busines owner. So how can you cut through? Traditional forms of marketing, such as billboards, posters, and leaflets are all still alive and kicking. However online marketing campaigns are a serious and … Continue reading

Business Advertising: Could You Be Doing More? Let’s Explore

business advertising

Business advertising is often imperative when you are a start-up, if you have tough competition and when you want to be seen to be innovative. So… could you be doing more? Starting up your business may have you buzzing with excitement and then feeling completely overwhelmed all at the same time. It is one of … Continue reading

Small Business Advertising Alternatives You Need To Know

small business advertising alternatives

Don’t be confused about small business advertising alternatives. There are so many articles out there advising on how to advertise your small business, check out these suggestions and see if they’ll be right for you. The majority of advertising advice seems to focus on direct, online advertising, such as pay-per-click (or PPC) advertising and search … Continue reading

A Service-Based Business: 3 Reasons They’re The Best

service-based business

Do you run a service-based business? Before you even come up with your original business idea, there’s one thing you have to consider. Will I start a business that sells products, or will I start one that focuses more on selling services? I’m not going to list all the different business ideas in this realm. … Continue reading

Marketing Is A Mountain To Climb, Not A Hill To Stroll

marketing mountain

Marketing is a mountain to climb, not a hill to stroll. This, in effect, means that in order to achieve the best and most reliably rewarding marketing strategy, you must conform to a list of important duties. A solid marketing strategy can potentially help your firm out of irrelevance, or it can cement its place … Continue reading

Business Blogging: Making It Work for Your Brand

business blogging

Business blogging is now a widely recognized method of promoting your brand.Why? And what will business blogging do for you? Business blogging helps with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), keeps the content on your website fresh and provides useful information for your customers and potential customers. However, simply having a business blog isn’t enough to make … Continue reading

Great Examples of Co-Branding (And What You Can Learn From Them)

co-branding

C0-branding is the new way to protect your brand while building a business. So how do you do it successfully? Maybe you’re a seasoned entrepreneur who’s spent years honing your formula for a well run and profitable business. Perhaps you are an aspiring entrepreneur who dreams of making your mark on the business world in … Continue reading

What Does It Take To Set Up A Business From Scratch?

set up a business from scratch

To some, the idea of setting up a business from scratch is always going to feel intimidating. Because no business can be born overnight and immediately see success. In order to make something that’s going to take lasting effect, and that will really wow your customers, it takes work. Not only does this refer to … Continue reading

Does Your Website Turn Off Customers? Find Out Right Now

Does Your Website Turn Off Customers?

When you’re running your business, you might find that your website isn’t seeing that much interest from customers online. Perhaps they don’t ever see your site, and this points to there being an issue with your SEO campaign. Or, perhaps they see your site and then click off. This is actually worse because if they … Continue reading

Business Reputation Taken A Hit? Here’s What You Can Do

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As every entrepreneur and CEO knows, business reputation is key to your company’s success, no matter what industry you are in. It’s worth investing good money into managing your company’s reputation so that you your customers and clients all have a good impression of your business and its services or products. There might be times … Continue reading

Setting The Tone: Are Your Business Premises Making The Right Impression?

making the right impression

When making the right impression, did you know that it takes us around seven seconds to form a fist impression? If you own a business, this means that you’ve got to get it right from the outset. You don’t get a second chance when making the right impression FIRST. So it pays to ensure that … Continue reading

Do You Have What It Takes to Become a Real Leader?

Do You Have What It Takes to Become a Real Leader?

Whether you’ve found yourself in a position of leadership or if you’ve always wanted to start your own business, something we need to learn as leaders is how to, well, lead people.   People look to us for knowledge and direction so if we’re unable to provide our staff with a purpose, it can be … Continue reading

5 Event Trends Businesses Have To Hurdle

event trends

Event trends come and go from tupperware parties to speed dating. However, for businesses, the advancement of technology may have made a difference to event trends now. Corporate events are the new king of marketing. Ten years ago, they were the best marketing technique a company never had. Nowadays, everyone giant corporations and SMEs use … Continue reading