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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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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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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Rebuilding our Businesses; Rebuilding Queensland

While our state grapples with the enormous amount of damage done to homes, lives and infrastructure, our business owners are left to puzzle their way through the coming weeks, trying to get their operations that may or may not have been flooded back on track and understand the massive shift in economic activity that the catastrophic Queensland floods will have on their companies and their clients.
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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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A Plan to Make 2011 a Happy New Year

With just 8 weeks until Christmas, and less than ten weeks until the new working year kicks off, it is timely to consider where your business will achieve its revenue and growth targets from next year, and actively plan your marketing efforts in advance. Let’s get thinking about your marketing plan for 2011.
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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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What Makes a Tender Response “A Winner”?

Do you nail every tender response you write? Perhaps you wonder how you could improve your tender and submission writing and increase your chances of winning? Here's a few tips on how to make your tender response "a winner".
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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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Marketing By Accident: No Thanks!

Some businesses sputter along from month to month, doing just enough marketing to make ends meet by pure accident. Others take a proactive approach to their marketing and communications and business development and find themselves in the fortunate position of being able to choose their customers.
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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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