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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 1 – Consider the markets you want to “own”.

As a services business, you simply can’t be “everything to anyone” or you will be nothing to nobody! So start by taking a long, hard look at your client base and the targets you have been chasing, and decide if they are the most appropriate, profitable, rewarding clients for your firm in coming months and years.
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The GFC is over! What’s your next move?

It was this very week, two years ago when Australia was thrown head-first into the fire of the GFC. Two years later, it is time to accept that times have changed and focus on how you can develop your business to succeed in the new year and new economy. It is time to get your marketing strategy right.
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One Client or One Service – What is the Best Strategy?

Is it better to build a business that provides multiple complimentary services to several key clients on an ongoing basis, … or a business that provides one service to many clients, turning them over regularly?” It is an important question that goes right to the bottom line of your business, and should underpin how you function as a service provider, employer and channel partner.
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Selling Your Services is Selling Yourself! 5 Tips for Building Trust!

Most professionals loathe to admit to themselves that selling their services is selling themselves. We are our own products, and no matter how good our technical skills and experience are, clients still fall back on trust as one of their key reasons for buying from us.
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Discount or Die? Fighting the Hungry Piranhas

Competition is fierce for Professional Services firms at the moment. With government work abating, little capital flowing into private property markets, and the mining and infrastructure sector “on hold”, less money is finding its way down the food chain to the consultants that provide services to our core industries. Businesses are now discounting for survival. The piranhas are out and high quality customer relationships are now critical. More critical than ever.
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“We” did it

I am proud to say, “We did it”. Yes, “We” , the communities that make up Brisbane made my favourite little café of all time, into a nationally awarded, massively popular, boutique café success story. For the creation of a brand is a community activity. One that we all play a significant role in.
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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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