marketing

Marketing trick 103: make your customers smile

November 17, 2008 Blog

While being dragged around a shopping centre yesterday I came across this sign in a tiny little flower shop. So simple, yet it stopped me in my tracks and made me smile. Clever marketing for a microbusiness with little or no budget…

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How to market to engineers

February 7, 2008 Blog

I didn’t study to be an engineer (thanks to a guidance counselor who thought I should be an estate agent), but I’ve been working hand-in-hand with engineers and technical buyers for the past 15 years. The result is that I’ve become one of them. We engineering-types look at marketing from a totally different perspective to [...]

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Something new from something old

January 17, 2008 Blog

Yesterday, while wandering through our manufacturing area I stumbled on a product to add to our line. A few informal discussions with colleagues and a handful of A-list clients confirmed that the idea was great and they’d be happy to buy-in provided the price is right. The weird thing is that the company has been [...]

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