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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Things you SHOULD and SHOULDN’T post on LinkedIn

Do you find it hard or uncomfortable coming up with things to post on LinkedIn? You are not alone. Many of our clients and colleagues have been getting more active on LinkedIn of late, and are continually asking us what they should be posting online. So we’ve put together a list of ideas together that you can use as a guide for what you should and shouldn’t post on LinkedIn.
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Are you ‘Solving a Problem’ or ‘Banging-out a Service’?

People pay a premium for smarter thinkers, more strategic and proactive insights and an ability to see and solve their problems… but are you offering this problem solving service to your clients? Or are you just wheeling out the same-old same-way approach... banging out a service?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Blogging Journey: It’s a long road uphill

Well, my first 20 days of blogging is finished and I am fast progressing towards my initial goal of 1 month of active blogging. So far I must admit that despite the hard work, the journey has been particularly enjoyable, even fun! Certainly I still have a lot to learn about blogging, SEO and content integration with social media, but I am confident that the best way to learn remains through real life experience.
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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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