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

Category Archives: Client Relationships

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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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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Everything Matters in Marketing

In Marketing 'everything matters'. Clients matter, customer experience matters, communications matter, attitude matters, reliability matters... Your customers simply wouldn’t be your customers without someone in your office taking an 'everything matters' approach...
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Are You Reliable?

As a professional service provider your customers rely on you to provide a good service, anything less is a deficit to you, your personal and business brand and your team. Whether you design buildings, manage finances, write contracts or build websites, they choose you to be there and complete their valued task. They have placed significance on your service and chosen to stake their own achievement on your ability to deliver it. Have you stopped to consider how important being reliable is?
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Post-GFC Tip 3 – Build an A-Grade Team

Professional Services isn’t a game of tennis. It is not a one-on-one sport. The best professional services businesses are like A grade football teams. Well trained, with people in complimentary defensive and attacking positions and everyone watching the ball.
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Giving Clients a Memorable “Customer Experience”

Does your business give the client a “customer experience” that is memorable and referable? "Customer Experience" is an integral part of the sales process. It is a step that can build trust and bind a client to you with unspoken loyalty, and demonstrate your integrity all in one action. Something that can achieve so much in the sales process must therefore be an enormous part of the modern marketing program.
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Build an Empire or Drive Innovation?

Some services firms build empires, others drive innovation. One of the surest strategies for creating a talked-about business is to put the emphasis on innovation and build a business that will drive your target audience to you in search of that something that “nobody else does”. Find out more...
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Give Great Service: Don’t Spread Your Firm Too Thin

No one builds a relationship with a client with the intention of providing poor client service, but every now and then a poor service culture will develop right underneath your nose. Many businesses in a rapidly changing economy, or with a growing customer base, fail to scale resources to meet new demands and lose focus of the importance of maintaining a quality client service culture. Here’s 3 quick tips to ensure you can maintain a quality client service culture within your firm
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Stop Relationships from ‘Slipping Through the Cracks’

It is rarely easy, and often uncomfortable looking up a contact that you haven’t spoken to in a while. So this week I am unveiling some simple ideas that will allow you to reinvigorate old client relationships and catch them before they fall through the cracks.
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Neglecting Old Relationships is Wasting Time and Money

How many times have old relationships passed you by? Did you realize that in allowing relationships to age and die you are quite literally throwing away your marketing efforts and money, and creating more difficult, more expensive marketing work for the months and years ahead.
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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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