Posts Tagged ‘time management’
How to Become More Productive by Using Workflows
For the longest time, I’ve told myself I’m an organised person. If you looked at my family, it would all make sense, my dad and my three older brothers all exhibit the same signs. Whiteboards covered in shopping lists and jobs to do around the house, typically on time to events plus an all but…
Read MoreCan’t Find Time for Effective Marketing?
If you can’t find time to do effective marketing then this article is definitely a MUST READ! It is probably the biggest issue we see small businesses come up against. We think about 99% of our clients have used the ‘didn’t find the time to…’ or ‘didn’t get chance to…’ or ‘I wanted to, but then I…
Read MoreFrom Wish-List to To-Do List – Make More Time for your Marketing
ACTION: Look at your To-Do list. Think about each task on that list. How much time do you think each task will realistically take? Now if you tally up the total amount of time needed to accomplish all your tasks today – how much time is that? Scary, isn’t it! And that is exactly the…
Read More4 Ways to Find Time for your Content Marketing
One of the main complaints we have from small business owners when discussing content marketing is that they simply don’t have time. Is this you? Are you constantly rushed off your feet trying to do all your client work, in meetings, or out networking? Firstly, making time for your business is all about mindset. A…
Read MoreQUICK TIP: How to not let blogging run your life
More and more now, blogging has become almost a norm of a marketing strategy. It is a great way to show your expertise, get across your brand, and entice people to find out what you are all about. However, it is a time sucker. We talk to many micro businesses who simply don’t have time,…
Read MoreMore Time, Less Stress – Top Tips on Working to a Marketing Diary
Good marketing is well organised. The best marketeers will work to a diary, and if you have been in business a while you’ll know how keeping an organised diary is actually necessary. What we want you do do though, is not only use your diary/planner to manage your working day, meetings, events etc. but use…
Read More4 Things You Should Never Tell Your Customers
A little bit of customer care advice for you today. Remember our current customers are our top asset when it comes to marketing our businesses, so keeping them as our fans is essential. So here’s some things you should never say to them…these are all things that have been said to us in the past,…
Read MoreContent Audits – a useful tool
Our good friend Tiana from TalkingBusiness.biz introduced us to the ‘Content Audit’ which we think is a fantastic way to keep your content in check. If you are just starting to put more of a strategy into place regarding your content, or if you have been going for a while, then it works as a…
Read MoreA sign of how not to do it
Sometimes showing some bad marketing can be a good way of illustrating how to improve. Driving to our office one day we were shocked at this piece of marketing which is a prime example of how not to do something (sorry for the bad photo taken from the car!) The sign says “Opticians Now Open…
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