Unconscious incompetence

Unconscious incompetence

The subject of ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’ has come up in several conversations lately.  In conversations with people who have transitioned from corporate employee to business owner and people who are in a new role in a business and don’t have experience...
In print!

In print!

When you have a marketing budget the issue of PR is often something you start thinking about.  Dreams of making the headlines in the national dailies drift through your mind – in a positive way, of course.  The national dailies are hard to crack – unless you are...
I don’t know what’s working

I don’t know what’s working

John Wanamaker, a 19th century retailer is accredited with the quote: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Many businesses say similar things about their marketing – along the lines of ‘I know some of my...
When is news not news?

When is news not news?

Strictly speaking a business newsletter doesn’t fall into the category of ‘news’.  Most business newsletters are more promotion than news.  The nearest they get to news is the launch of a new product or service. Information about what’s going on in your company really...
Focus on what they want

Focus on what they want

Engagement gets tougher as there’s just so much content on every social platform that it would be a full-time job to try and keep up with it all.  People flick and scroll too quickly to stop and like, share or comment. That doesn’t mean that they’re not reading your...