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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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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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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Get Nimble, Get Hungry, Put your Energy to work

How nimble and able to adapt to change is your business? The bigger your business, traditionally, the slower it adapts to change in a marketplace, and the less likely is it to capitalise on rapid changes in trends and emerging opportunities. The advent of Internet-led technologies ensures that opportunity is everywhere, but people will only provide it to those with real vibrant energy, and the nimbleness to chase their market.
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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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Finders, Minders and Grinders

Is your business made up of minders, finders or grinders? And what is the ratio of each? In today’s fast moving economy it is critical to have and appreciate all three personality types
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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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Market to Every Step of a Customer's Journey – Technorati Guru

Many people I meet as a marketer ask me how quickly their marketing will lead to sales and ultimately, revenue. I reply by asking them what their time to sale is and what their level of awareness is within their target markets? I also like to understand how many happy customers or clients they have created over time. Occasionally I get some puzzled looks. Whenever I do, I offer this simple Marketing lesson.
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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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