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8 practical reasons to create a vision board for your business
It’s that time of year when social streams are awash with people setting goals for their year ahead. Lots of people will have spent a few happy hours cutting a sticking to create a vision board for their life, and crafting daily mantras to manifest what they’ve pictured. Just as many will dismiss the idea as a load of hokum. Here’s what I think…
Would you like to spend a month a year in Bali?
We often ask business owners to visualise their perfect day. This can result in them thinking about what their ideal year would look like. A nice holiday, or spending even longer away from the business, is high on their lists. Whatever stage of set-up, or...
Marketing and sales – what’s the difference?
There's a perennial debate if you've hung around marketing and sales people for long enough, and that is "What is marketing, and what is sales?" For me, marketing is the process of taking your goods and services to market. For many others, marketing is...
What are sustainable sales results?
We talk about marketing that underpins sustainable sales results. So, let's explore exactly what we mean by that, and why it's so important to get to a point where your sales really do meet these criteria. There are three ways in which sales need to be sustainable if...
Sales funnels don’t exist – a marketing lesson from The Matrix
I’m going to take a wild guess that you’ve heard of a sales funnel. The last time I did a search for ‘sales funnel’ on Google there were 18 million results so it really is quite a ubiquitous term. The thing is, it’s also a really dangerous one. Metaphor...
Systems that support every step of the sale
Many of the businesses we work with have grown organically, and many resist systemisation as a way of hanging on to their humanity. There's often a rumbling feeling that systems and process stifle creativity and take the fun out of things. This can mean a...
How good marketing supports your investment pitch
The businesses that get the most from using the Watertight Marketing methodology to structure their marketing operations, and get a common language into their organisation, are typically those looking to seriously scale things up. This is where...
Marketing messages are often meaningless. Scenarios almost always make sense.
We're not going to be the first or last to say that you need to focus on emotional marketing messages to get a response. In using our Logic Sandwich™ messaging framework, we ask clients to focus on on 'away-from' emotional triggers to get a...
How to get marketing done when you simply don’t have time
Of all the grumbles we hear from people in growing businesses, making time for marketing is chief amongst them. It's vanishingly rare to find someone who doesn't have enough marketing ideas. It's having the time to implement the, frankly endless, numbers of marketing...
How often do you repeat yourself in your marketing?
Are you worried about repetition in marketing? We often encounter an uneasiness and sense of mounting pressure in businesses where marketing includes putting out high quality content. Perhaps they've made a commitment to a baseline of weekly...
How do you know if your marketing is working?
Are you getting results from marketing? If you're spending time, energy, or perhaps some of that hard-earned money on marketing, you're well within your rights to ask if it's getting you the results your business needs. Answering that question...
Who has the power of veto?
B2B Marketing Case Study | MRG Systems are experts in designing, supplying and running digital displays. You’ll find their systems in places as diverse as leading UK retail betting shops, schools & colleges, and the Houses of Parliament. Head of sales, Darren MacDonald, worked in partnership with Certified Practitioner, Joshua Morse, to systematically understand and tweak their marketing leaks… starting with a redefinition of their key audience.
