• Time-limited Offers Will Strengthen Your Copy

      How many times have you hesitated when considering buying something? Although you make decisions all day long, they are always harder to make when they result in you parting with your hard-earned cash. What if, after you’ve bought the item, you find it cheaper elsewhere? What if you’re out and about next week and […]

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  • What Comes First? Website Design, SEO, or Content?

      You need a new website because you’ve either started a new venture, or your old one needs updating. You know you need a great design. You know you need an expert to help you with your SEO strategy. You also know you need a professional to create mind-blowingly excellent content. But, which one do […]

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  • Marketing: The Power of You

      What is the point of marketing your business? To draw in customers who want to buy your products and services, right? So if you know that, why are you driving them away? In my experience, most marketing materials are written from completely the wrong angle. Although they are supposed to attract buyers, they tend […]

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  • Newsletters – How to Make an Impact in an Overcrowded Inbox

      Newsletters provide a great opportunity for you to keep your relationship with your customers alive and kicking. They are relatively cheap to produce and easy to deliver – all it takes is the push of a button. But that means there’s a downside to them as well; everyone’s sending them, which means your customers’ inboxes […]

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  • How to Diversify Your Supply Chain

      As a corporate, your supply chain matters. You want to sure you have the best suppliers providing you with the best products and services at the best prices and service levels. Your tendering process isn’t the greatest (whose is?) making it tricky for smaller suppliers to get a look in. And that means you […]

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  • 2017’s Top 10 Digital Marketing and Branding Trends [Infographic]

      I do love a good infographic, and it’s always fun to find ones that predict what we as marketers are going to be facing in the coming months. As 2016 draws to a close (that will help you put this into context should you be reading this in the future), the following infographic from […]

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  • What Is a Style Guide and Why Do You Need One?

      One of the simple things that give your organisation credibility is your consistency of style. By style, I mean your written communications, marketing materials and visuals. It is basically a guide that defines the written brand of your business (your stylebook looks at company colours, logos etc.) that is used by anyone who creates or […]

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  • Does Emotion Really Motivate People to Buy?

      This article is very short and sweet. Ask any commercial copywriter and they’ll tell you the best way to get people to open their wallets and buy is by evoking emotion through your content. So, in answer to the title of this blog, yes, emotion does motivate people to buy. However, I’m not talking […]

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  • A Quick Insight into the Art of Writing an Elevator Pitch

    I hate networking events. If they weren’t bad enough on their own, they’re even worse when you have to deliver an elevator pitch. If you’re unsure what that is, an elevator pitch is a short summary that quickly tells your audience what your company can do for them. It has to be short, snappy, to […]

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  • Stop Content Marketing – You Don’t Know What You’re Doing

      Content marketing is one of those phrases everyone’s banding about. In your marketing strategy meetings you’re being constantly told you need to do it, but no one’s telling you how or why. It’s not enough just to say ‘hey, we blog therefore we have a content marketing strategy,’ because unless you have a clear […]

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