Welcome to the third instalment in our series of blogs that look at all aspects of the challenges facing small businesses. For our third edition, we sat down with Lucy Paine from TechSpark who is [...]
What was your background prior to South Thames Marketing? Immediately prior to setting up South Thames Marketing, I was head of global marketing for two of Hay Group’s (a management consulting [...]
We all know that cold-calling is very much a thing of the past and this will affect the status of B2B marketing. We all hate to be cold-called and are most likely going to ignore anybody who [...]
As a small business that is very interested in small business marketing, we spend a lot of time each week reading tips and advice from across the World Wide Web. So, we thought we’d launch [...]
As a small business are you maximising your presence on LinkedIn? Our favourite B2B platform has now got more than 630 million members – 21% of the entire global workforce – yet, despite its [...]
Let’s be honest, Twitter is an interesting world! We follow our favourite celebrities or footballers and we’ve winced at some of the stuff they’ve shared. A scandal hits and one of the first [...]
Let’s talk social media. We’ve noticed that our clients who sell to customers ‘get’ social media – the benefits are obvious. Less so with B2B firms – they wonder if the benefits are [...]
What is a marketing persona? First, let’s define a marketing persona. A marketing persona is a fictional character you have to develop in order to characterise the key traits of a [...]
Many businesses understand the importance of social media. With its ubiquity in the modern world, it’s essential avenue for reaching clients, customers, and potential leads. But few businesses [...]
Customer Value Optimisation (CVO) is a sales growth strategy used by Starbucks, Amazon and McDonald’s as well as many others. The strategy works to increase three things: The number of customers [...]