Marketing insights from one of Australia's leading Professional Services Marketing Specialists, Rebecca Wilson, Stretch Marketing's Principal Marketing and Business Development Consultant.

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Stop Disrupting, Start Marketing

Two, three, four or five years ago, we used to market a business purely by interrupting people. We interrupted people by advertising in their path and hoped to disrupt them from what they were doing with a loud enough message that it sunk into their heads. Today, things are different. We and our clients’ are working our hardest to do a different kind of marketing: Marketing that attracts highly qualified clients to our business like a magnet, 'Inbound Marketing'.
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Things you SHOULD and SHOULDN’T post on LinkedIn

Do you find it hard or uncomfortable coming up with things to post on LinkedIn? You are not alone. Many of our clients and colleagues have been getting more active on LinkedIn of late, and are continually asking us what they should be posting online. So we’ve put together a list of ideas together that you can use as a guide for what you should and shouldn’t post on LinkedIn.
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Seven Marketing Mandatories for 2012

All those delivering services in 2012 will be faced with a series of opportunities… keep doing things the way we always have and hope for the best; or understand what our markets require from our services firms as their positioning shifts. Here are the most important trends I urge you to address in 2012. Some of them are marketing, and some of them are more important “market positioning” for your firm.
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Qantas Strikes Another Blow to Brand Australia

The Qantas grounding is another blow to "Brand Australia" the brand of our previously very stable, secure and reliable nation, known for its lack of sovereign risk, stable investment environment, conservative growth-supporting governments, good sports achievements, sunny weather and great beaches, not to mention our previously faultless flying kangaroo.
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Are you ‘Solving a Problem’ or ‘Banging-out a Service’?

People pay a premium for smarter thinkers, more strategic and proactive insights and an ability to see and solve their problems… but are you offering this problem solving service to your clients? Or are you just wheeling out the same-old same-way approach... banging out a service?
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Are You Really Online?

In the professional marketplace you now have the opportunity to present your firm and yourself for exactly how competent, experienced and connected you are, way before you are able to stand in front of someone, and long before you have the opportunity to close a sale. When someone refers you to a lead, the first thing that person will do is Google or LinkedIn search you, and judge you. Are you ready?
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Is Your Business Full of Starving, Hungry or Fat Cats?

I want you to imagine two cats, both hunting the same mouse. One is a wild cat, scrawny, hungry and merciless in his search for food. The other cat is a plump, well-fed and loved house cat. Which one displays the wholehearted concentration required to hunt, corner and consume his prey?
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Integrity Rules

integrity in marketing and service provision in an increasingly Internet based economy is more important than ever. Having integrity, marketing honestly, delivering a reliable service, and caring for your relationships in your community are all incredibly important.
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Social Media enters the world of “Big Business”.

Social Media as a marketing medium got a big thumbs up from a big business this week, when international financial institution, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announced they would give their 17800 registered advisers access to Linkedin and Twitter to promote themselves. It’s a big move for a company leading the professional industries, but will it reap rewards for them?
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Changing with the times… Making your business more marketable

Whether you are a business owner or a senior staff member, we’re doing things faster smarter and more interactively than ever before in 2011. But does it really matter whether you are keeping up with industry and technology in your professional services business? Will changing things up a bit make you more marketable?
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  • Rebecca Wilson

    My tale is an unusual tale of a Marketer, who has worked in many businesses across many industries at all levels (marketing management, implementation & operations).

    I have seen how the small picture (customer experiences), meets the big picture (marketing strategy), and understand how to use all tools in the marketing kitbag (both traditional and technological) to ensure that your business grows solid ROI through the most effective marketing possible.

    Founder and MD of growing Professional Services Marketing firm, Stretch Marketing,I keep myself on the cutting edge of business trends, digesting technology changes, Internet forces, industry challenges and business opportunities on a daily basis. Myself, and the Stretch Marketing team learn constantly so you can access smart marketing and communications thinking locally, and nationally, whenever you need it.

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