When providing business development coaching to lawyers and accountants, one of the metaphors I use is that it is like growing a tree. It’s not an overnight process. It takes time for a young sapling to find the right location, acquire the necessary resources and grow steadily each year until Read More
I had three motivations for scooting over to the uber-cool BL-NK pop-up venue in Hoxton yesterday just around the corner from Silicon Roundabout at the very heart of digital London. The first was to see the marketing efforts of Withers Worldwide in action as a legal and law firm marketing Read More
As always, marketers are battling to keep up with all the changes driven by international, technological and economic upheaval. But here are six trends for marketers that caught my eye: 1. Monitor UGC (User Generated Content) The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) indicated that organisations MUST monitor comments, posts, videos and Read More
Having just surfaced from a mountain of research, I’ve plucked these gems out as counter-intuitive market trends that could have an impact on your business or marketing strategy 1. Book publishing growth Whilst we may think that electronic books have taken over, there were 530,000 new books published in 2011 Read More
I read this excellent blog on copywriting tips which was originally published in the Buffer Blog http://blog.bufferapp.com/data-backed-copywriting and to those who attend my copywriting classes I recommend that you read the entire blog. But here are the highlights: Create a curiosity gap – the headline needs to be tantalising enough to Read More
