The simple choice marketers must make.

The simple choice marketers must make.

  When building a marketing plan, one of the key choices that must be made early is a deceptively simple one that most fail to recognise. Are you setting out to serve existing demand? Are you setting out to generate new demand? Ninety-nine times out of a hundred,...

The reliable way to forecast manufacturing costs.

The reliable way to forecast manufacturing costs.

    Several years ago I became aware of 'Wrights law'.  In the 1930’s, Theordore Wright an aero engineer proposed that: 'For every cumulative doubling of units produced, costs will fall by a constant percentage'. This insight came from observing the...

The SME marketers 3 card marketing budget optimisation trick

The SME marketers 3 card marketing budget optimisation trick

  No business I have ever seen has enough in their marketing budgets to do all they would like to do. Therefore, they often start cutting bits off ‘willy nilly’ to reach a budget that can be managed. There is a better way: Basic marketing 101, which most SME's...

How to grab attention in an AI world

How to grab attention in an AI world

    On first glance, the only purpose of a blog post, or indeed any sort of content that comes into your inbox, is to provide some impetus to encourage you towards a transaction. That remains the case, but if that is the only reason, we have arrived at the...

Plans never reflect what happens, so why bother?

Plans never reflect what happens, so why bother?

  Commercial success, that which delivers more than a wage, comes from only two places: Critical thinking The ability and willingness to be a bit different, experiment and embrace risk. Why is it then that the web is full of '7 point plans to….' Templates...

The simple 3 step lead qualification tool

The simple 3 step lead qualification tool

  Optimising a sales process is not just about the conversion rate, as that is an outcome, a function of many things that come before and contribute to that outcome. The challenge is more about optimising each stage in the process that leads to a maximised...

Where can a manufacturing business get money for nothing?

Where can a manufacturing business get money for nothing?

  There is a simple answer, but the money is just a bit harder to find. It is tied up in your current operations, consumed by all manner of things that do not add value to a customer. Machine down time, rework, waste, on line inventory, double handling, and a host of...

The rule of the niche

The rule of the niche

    Standard marketing advice in this day of homogeneity, and certainly my advice for SME's, is to ‘find a niche and own it’. Be the only one that competes in a market niche that you define. The deeper, darker and more remote the niche the better, because...

5 ways marketers should respond to disruptive AI.

5 ways marketers should respond to disruptive AI.

In this new world of marketing, being reshaped by Artificial Intelligence, how should those concerned with the longevity and salience of their brands respond? Innovate. AI is really good at looking at what has happened in the past, but has yet to develop a crystal...

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