by Kara Stanford | Feb 17, 2021 | Growth, Marketing Planning, Marketing skills, Strategy
As business owners and marketers, we are relentlessly bombarded every day with things we should, could, ought to and want to do when it comes to marketing. It can lead to marketing stress and overwhelm. Marketing decisions can include: which social media platform to...
by Kara Stanford | Aug 15, 2020 | Marketing Planning, Marketing skills, measurements, metrics, Strategy
Marketing metrics and measurements are an essential part of marketing; they help you understand how well your marketing is performing, if you’re going to hit your goals, and when you have reached them. Your Marketing Measurement system can be sophisticated or...
by Kara Stanford | Jan 16, 2020 | Marketing skills
New year, new decade and time to think about the marketing skills for 2020 you should either be improving or developing so that you can make sure your organisation’s marketing actually works. What marketing skills should we all have? With companies like...
by Kara Stanford | Oct 1, 2019 | market analysis, Marketing Communications, Marketing Planning, marketing resource, Marketing skills, Marketing Team, Strategy, Tactical marketing
All businesses need a ‘marketing team’. From solopreneurs to growing SMEs to established businesses, we all need a team of people who understand how to plan, implement, manage and run effective marketing. Today in this blog post, I’ll help you understand: The...
by Kara Stanford | Jul 8, 2018 | Content Marketing, Marketing Communications, Marketing skills, Strategy, Tactical marketing
Time is precious. So when you create a piece of content marketing, you need to make it worth it. Really worth it. This means taking one piece of content marketing and using it again. And again. And again. For this blog, I’m going to take you through a worked...
by Kara Stanford | May 23, 2018 | attitude, Growth, Marketing Planning, Marketing skills, Strategy
Many companies can’t quite seem to get their marketing “to work”. They know that marketing is costing them money but aren’t sure of the return; they can’t quite make the step up to the next level of business growth despite doing more marketing; and, crucially, their...
