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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Post GFC-Tip 5 – Communicate more effectively.

Every professional service firm needs to consider their communications objectives, and build a program of communications that reaches out to their target audience. Consider mixing personal, scheduled communications with less personal, but still engaging mediums like blogging, email newsletters, events, direct mail and even stunts that position your business appropriately. Have fun with it... read more
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Post-GFC Tip 4 – Create “Greater Value” for Your Clients

In the highly competitive world that is emerging in the ashes of the GFC, some of the best services businesses are standing out from the crowd by taking their solid understanding of their target clients and building “service efficiencies”. So today's business development exercise is to consider how future proof your professional service is? Can it you extract key processes and practices and systematise them to offer greater value to your clients?
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The Problem Facing Many Services Firms

There is one distinct and obvious problem facing many of the professional services firms in the marketplace at the moment.  The generational relationship-building skills-transfer has gotten "stuck".  Companies have been fed so well with work, for so many years of boom, that many have neglected (or not needed) to teach their mid-tier and emerging senior staff how to sell themselves and their firms.
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Sell Your Services in 5 Easy Steps

Marketing a modern services business is extremely different to selling a product. When you market a service you are selling a promise of wisdom, knowledge and capability.     That is, you are selling the promise that your team and your business has the intelligence and capability deliver the exciting and hopefully dynamic professional service that you [...]
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People Buy From People

People buy from people. Say it three times. Say it to yourself every morning. Don’t forget it. It is a mantra that has to be remembered when trying to sell your products and services.
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A Motivated Salesforce is Critical to Business Success

For some, sales is the hardest job in the world. For others, however, the adrenalin of the roller coaster ride that is the sales process, keeps them on the edge of their seat for their entire careers. The real questions are however, do businesses truly recognize and properly rate the critical importance of their sales people; and, do businesses ensure that their sales people are skilled and motivated enough to sell in a more than ordinary fashion?
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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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