The Gentle Way to Sell More Effectively

Lots of people don’t like selling, especially if they’re selling themselves or their own products. Perhaps you think it’s being pushy, or maybe you’ve been on the receiving end of an over enthusiastic sales person, but sales doesn’t…

How to Create a Great Advert

Advertising is expensive so you need to ensure that you maximise the investment by ensuring your advert is the best it can be. “How can I do this?” I hear you ask. Don’t you hate it when people write cheesy lines like that? Well…

How to Create a Marketing Campaign

Do you need to get your message out there but aren’t sure where to start? Marketing is an integral part of your business and creating and implementing an effective marketing campaign will help your spread your message…

Six Ways You Can Promote Your Business

No doubt you’re familiar with the 4 p’s of the marketing mix; Product, Price, Place, Promotion In this post I want to look at the six ways you can Promote your business. Publicity Let’s start with another ‘P’ – Publicity.…

When to ignore a competitor’s price rise

When a competitor raises their prices you have two choices. You can respond by raising your prices as discussed here, or you can choose to ignore the raise and maintain your current prices. You should consider ignoring the price rise in the…
,

How To Implement A Price Decrease

A few posts back I covered When To Lower Your Prices. In this post we’ll look at the ways to implement a price decrease. Price fall The most straight forward tactic is to simply reduce the price. You will want to include this exciting…

How To Implement A Price Increase

In my previous blog post When To Increase Your PricesI discussed the circumstances when a price rise may be in order. Once you’ve decided to increase prices you need to decide how. There are a few ways you can implement price increases; Price…

When To Lower Your Prices

Last time we looked at when to increase your prices. Today we’re looking at when to lower your prices. ‘Why put prices down?’ you may ask. If you evaluate your range of products and services sometimes cutting the price is the right choice.…