by NoBull Marketing | Aug 25, 2020 | Attracting Leads, Strategy
Today, I explore stages of buyer journey and how those relate to the messages in your marketing. In particular, let’s look at the balance between branding and direct response messaging. Understanding the Buyer Journey The ‘buyer journey’ is just a...
by NoBull Marketing | Mar 15, 2020 | Strategy, Tracking Results
If you’re spending money or time on marketing, you need to track how well it’s working. Yet so many small businesses don’t set marketing KPIs, or if they do, they don’t look at them! If you don’t track KPIs, how can you be sure your...
by NoBull Marketing | Jan 24, 2020 | Blogging, Email Marketing, Social Media, Strategy
Should you do your marketing yourself, or should you pay someone else? For a typical small business, when you start up you’ve got very little money – maybe no money at all! So there’s not really a question. You just have to do it yourself. But as you...
by Bridget | Jan 9, 2020 | Blogging, Content, Email Marketing, SEO, Social Media, Strategy, Tracking Results
In 2020, we’re looking to grow, connect and add more value. This includes trying to make our blogs and emails more useful – which is why I’ve been running a Small Business Marketing Survey to find out what matters to you. The survey will close on 17 January, so this...
by Bridget | Nov 11, 2019 | Digital, SEO, Strategy
Research suggests that the average website lasts 2 years and 7 months. That was based on marketing websites. In other sectors, it may be between 3 and 6 years – some industries don’t change that fast. But whatever the exact lifetime, that’s a lot of...
by NoBull Marketing | Sep 12, 2019 | Data, Real Life Examples, Strategy, Tracking Results
Let’s imagine a company is quoting you a price to promote your services to their email list or to send direct mail to their contacts. How do you decide whether you should? Will you get a positive return on the investment you make using the third-party channel? The...