Who Bath Marketing work with

After a very productive breakfast meeting at the Bath Business Club group (very early!) yesterday morning, I finally got around to putting into practice some of the things I preach about and have uploaded some client logos onto my website.

With your website acting like a shop window for the world to see, I think it is important that you show the world who you work with and preferably, what they say about you. Give people the chance to get to know you and your business; create a personality.

If you would like a one hour free audit of your businesses marketing activity, drop paul an email paul@bathmarketingconsultancy.co.uk





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Writing a winning proposal – Part 1

I have recently found myself in a number of pitch situations where the prospective client has wanted to review a number of similar organisations before ...

Websites & Internet marketing

The Internet. Let’s be honest, we cannot resist the lure of the Internet. Everyone is using it for marketing. It is impossible to resist! However, ...

Media buying – how to play the game.

Negotiate hard. For any publishers that are reading this, I would like to apologise in advance as I am going to go through how to ...
corporate identity

The advert – avoid these mistakes & categories

Following on from my post yesterday on the merits of advertising, I thought it was worth pointing out some of the traps that professional services ...

Advertising. Yes or no?

Standing out? Can advertising generate leads? Should it be a part of your marketing activity? What type works? Some quite strong questions for a Monday morning! ...

20 golden rules for running a successful business.

Below is a list of the 20 things to consider when running a successful new business programme: Plan Create a fire, it is not about ...

Marketing is more than new business.

Although I am a great fan of business plans, it is having a marketing strategy that will make the difference to your business. Such a ...

The Brochure Part 2 – A New Approach

Following on from my previous post, I think that the planning and the production of the company brochure should be the catalyst for producing a ...

The Company Brochure – Part 1

After nearly 20 years in the industry, I am not 100% sure why companies have such an obsession with a company brochure! Yes, by all ...

During the pitch..

Following on from my last 2 posts, I thought I would continue with some more helpful tips about the actual pitch itself to help you ...

The pitch – structure and planning

While undergoing numerous sales training courses when I was working at the Sunday Times and then Miller Freeman, I was always told to : Say ...

The beauty parade – before the pitch

In contrast to a credentials presentation or document where the content is usually decided by you, the competitive pitch is led by the client brief. ...

Seminar or Conference – how to make it a success

Outline the benefits This is not as easy as it seems, especially when you consider how many are available at one time. In addition, once ...

Direct Mail – have you used it?

About a year ago, I wrote an article giving tips on how to use Direct Mail as an effective marketing initiative, but I have come across a lot ...
a marketing or business plan.

The Role of Marketing

In my opinion, businesses must make selling a high priority within an overall plan, but such a plan is likely to be labelled a marketing ...

Top 10 Marketing Tips for Success

1. Slash your advertising budget in half. Use the money you save to test some other simple forms of marketing. Better yet, get on the ...

What is a brand? How do I get one?

On more than one occasion I have been asked this question and the person asking has then quickly followed up the question with the statement, ...

Breathe for a Change

After a great 10 minute presentation at a recent networking event in Frome, I asked the speaker Mr Ken James, if he would like to ...

Cheap can be expensive

Firstly, let me apologise for my lack of Blog activity this week. It has been one of those weeks where, despite my best efforts, time ...

What about advertising??

There are a number of conflicting reports and discussions about the merit of using advertising in your marketing activities so I thought I would outline ...

The high\'s and low\'s of being in business

Most of the Blogs I write are dedicated to helping people with their marketing; giving advice based on my experiences gained from over 17 years ...

The high’s and low’s of being in business

Most of the Blogs I write are dedicated to helping people with their marketing; giving advice based on my experiences gained from over 17 years ...

Key writing techniques

In my experience, there are two types of advertising techniques being used at the moment by businesses – direct response advertising and branding advertising. The former ...

What is a site map and do I need one?

Bath Marketing Consultancy have been asked a number of times recently about this subject so thought I would put together a brief explanation for you. ...

There is no magic formula to successful marketing. Is there?

It’s another Monday morning and I have been thinking about what write today that would help my readers with their marketing. Racking my brains, I recall ...

Social Media Optimization

Ranking high on major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing is not a paid endeavour, but rather a combination of factors, including: • ...

Want a bigger slice of the SEM pie?

Big Slice? It’s not just about driving traffic and conversions. In my opinion, a secondary objective for a large amount of search marketing activity (SEM) ...

Direct Mail with your invoice…

I came across an article recently that got me thinking. It was such a simple idea and yet made huge amounts of sense. It was all ...

Black Hat SEO

Be careful of the Black Hat A malicious SEO poisoning attack, also known as a Blackhat SEO attack, occurs when hackers manipulate search engine results ...

30 Questions to test you and your business

1 Can you and your team name three things that set you apart from the competition? 2 Do you communicate the benefits of your product ...

8 areas to consider when writing content

“Content is King” is something that is said with great frequency in the marketing world so I have put together a quick check list of ...

Social Media – Do I or don’t I?!?

Yes or no?! There has been huge ongoing debates about social media and whether it is a marketing initiative that business simply have to implement ...

SME Marketing Tips

Below is a list of 7 simple tips to help the SME when considering marketing activity. They are simple, low-cost ways for any small business ...

Social Media = Online Networking

Networking has been used as a marketing tool for generations of business owners and I find it is a good profile builder for my business. ...
search engine-optimisation

5 Top Tips to help SEO

Below are the 5 main areas Bath Marketing Consultancy think you should look for when building a website which effectively can prevent a site from ...

Social media

Bath Marketing Consultancy came across an article recently that gave a whole load of stats about online trends relating to social media and its usage ...

Spotting the marketing thief

This is as much a post asking for advice as giving it and based on a recent problem I have experienced. In a nutshell, I ...
digital marketing tools

Why Content is King by Gail Gibson.

Bath Marketing Consultancy is proud to post this Blog written by a friend, colleague and professional copywriter, Gail Gibson of True Expressions. Do the words ...

Save money and the planet

Bath Marketing Consultancy came across this news snippet on Brand Republic and thought it very apt as I am an E.ON customer, am conscious of ...

Mistakes to avoid in Marketing

Some common mistakes to try and avoid when carrying out marketing initiatives are: Advertising to the wrong people Using the wrong messages Marketing at the ...

Getting hacked off?!

I dont know about anyone else, but Bath Marketing Consultancy is getting increasingly frustrated by the recent hacking of it’s Twitter account. It happened 3 ...

Top 10 Advert Tips

Not all of the below are possible all the time, but Bath Marketing Consultancy have constructed a check list of the sort of criteria you ...

‘Patient’ marketing…

I know it is early on a Monday morning and it is raining outside, but this article is not a moan influenced by these factors. ...

Marketing Consultancy – what, how and why??

I came across a well known advertising agencies’ mission statement recently and it read something along the lines of – ‘It makes a lot of ...

Anorak internet stats…

Taken from the ONS, I thought it was worth outlining the importance of having an internet presence and the sheer numbers now having access to ...

Digital media still the way forward

Havas suffered a 14.3% year-on-year decline in organic growth in the UK in the fourth quarter of 2009, as the French marketing group said its ...

Iceland look for a new ambassador

Iceland is finally ditching its celebrity-focused marketing strategy and looking to appoint one of its customers to become its ‘brand ambassador.’ I have yet to ...

Domino’s launches Facebook ‘superfans’ social media push

Apparently Domino’s Pizza has launched a new social media campaign on Facebook rewarding users’ brand loyalty with prizes and special offers. As part of the ...

Dissertations and the funniest advert ever

Having been bombarded by enquiries from final year students last week asking for comments and help with their dissertations, (I even had a lady from ...

Improve your marketing; test yourself

Bath Marketing Consultancy believes that no single marketing initiative will work in isolation and suggest that between 6 and 10 initiatives is what each business ...

Apple launches the iPad in San Francisco

With under a 10 inch screen, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has called it “a magical truly revolutionary product”. Jobs said that what this device does ...

Nuts……or is it balls?

With sales down 24.6% down year on year to 188,532, the IPC-owned lads mag ‘Nuts’ is rolling its new look in February supported by a ...

Armani & Reebok team up

Giorgio Armani & Reebok have teamed up to create a combined clothing collection which was unveiled last weekend at the Milan Fashion Week. Armani’s EA7 ...

Search Engine Glossary of Terms

I get a lot of questions from clients asking me exactly what terms like CPC, SEO, SEM, title tag and in bound links actually mean. ...

Money for Haiti

Although this not a marketing related article, I do think it is very newsworthy. After the devastating earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck ...

LA Fitness + Alesha Dixon?

As part of the group’s £30m investment plan which will also see it refurbish all it clubs by 2012, LA fitness, the gym chain, is ...

No gas for 10 years….

To coincide with the brand’s 75th anniversary, Calor Gas, the bottled gas brand, is rolling out its first TV advertising for a decade. Calor is ...

Ads don’t have to win creative awards to win..

There seems to be a lot of debate in the marketing industry about ‘adwatch recall.’ By this I mean what advertisment or campaign consumers remember ...

And the award for the most irritating advert goes to….

…..Gocompare.com! Not really a surprise is it?! They may grab our attention and then get inside our heads, but some adverts are memorable for all ...

Pepsi backs Lipton with Hugh Jackman.

Lipton Ice Tea (Pepsi Lipton International is a joint venture between PepsiCo and Unilever), will launch a global marketing campaign in March featuring new ambassador ...

What is a Blog and do I need one?!

Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs ...

Marketing in a recession…

In my never ending attempt to educate clients about the importance of marketing in a recession, I came across an article by Mark Bower that pretty much ...

To sponsor or not to sponsor?!

I was reviewing sponsorship as a marketing initiative earlier as Bath Marketing Consultancy is in talks with Cancer Research UK and I remembered that MasterCard ...

\'It\'s here…..\'

On 15th December, I Blogged about the new Nexus mobile phone from Google. Well…..here is what it looks like – There is also a promo ...

‘It’s here…..’

On 15th December, I Blogged about the new Nexus mobile phone from Google. Well…..here is what it looks like – There is also a promo ...

Google Earth and Facebook bring Guinness to life online

This, I feel, is a cracking bit of online marketing by one of the big brands – Guinness. Basically, Guinness (BMC – cracking website too) ...

Getting into marketing?

Despite reading that over 250,000 people were made redundant in 2009 with predictions by People Management of some 2.8 million unemployed in 2010, there still ...

‘Comic’ Omid Djalili to front new Moneysupermarket.com campaign

I was about to Blog about yet another TV advert for a compare insurance type site when I checked Brand Republic’s site and saw that ...

Hovis tops ITV’s Ad Of The Decade

Adapted from ‘Marketing News’ I have found this little news item which I thought my provoke some comments…… Hovis’s ‘Go On Lad’ advert has won ...

Ford could sell Volvo this month

Ford has reportedly reached an agreement with China’s Geely to sell its Volvo unit. According to various reports both sides expect a sale of the ...

Twiggy had been airbrushed!!

Before Christmas, Ad regulators upheld more than 700 complaints about an ad for an Olay product after Procter & Gamble admitted that a photo of ...

Four little things worth remembering for 2010…

I came across a number of marketing ‘facts’ this morning some of which caught my eye: The more data you have, and the more you ...

Bathstore launches £1.5m campaign

As the ‘January Sale’ battle starts in ernest today, Bathstore, the bathroom specialist retailer, has launched a £1.5m January sale campaign rolling it out across ...

Comedy to outsell film DVDs says Tesco

Tesco claims sales of comedy and TV DVDs will outsell its film chart for the first time, attributing the change to the success of stand-up ...

Marketing for Chrome

Although it has not been around for long Google Chrome is getting a major marketing boost in the UK. Today there are wrap-around cover adverts ...

10 more brands not involved with Tiger Woods!!!

As Bath Marketing pointed out in Twitter recently, several of Tiger Woods’ sponsors such as Accenture and Gillette, are distancing themselves from the golfer as ...

Susan Boyle dominates YouTube in 2009

Even though I am not a huge fan of his, Bath Marketing Consultancy thinks that you’ve got to give credit where credit is due. Simon ...

Domino\'s Pizza sponsors new ITV show

Just as we all thought it was safe to turn on our TV’s again at the weekend there is ANOTHER reality show called \’Take Me ...

Domino’s Pizza sponsors new ITV show

Just as we all thought it was safe to turn on our TV’s again at the weekend there is ANOTHER reality show called ‘Take Me ...

Ann Summers hijacks online BA strike interest

A cracking bit of intuitive, online marketing took place yesterday that I thought you would be interested to know. Basically, Ann Summers, the adult retail ...

Google could sell own-brand phone direct by early 2010

The word on the street is that Google has given employees a prototype mobile phone to test, which it is reportedly planning to sell directly ...

Durex launches online community

This news snippet has been taken from a leading marketing related website and I thought it was something that needed discussing as I am thinking ...

Morrisons launches £4 festive meal-deal for four

As we approach Christmas Day the supermarket chain Morrisons is attempting to help consumers spread the cost of the Christmas period by launching a festive ...

More than just marketing facts…..

Bath Marketing Consultancy is not just a organisation bursting with marketing trivia. As golf seems to be in the public domain at the moment; how ...

Blogging for search engines

I write daily articles and stories on my Blog abouthings t that I feel will be interesting to the marketing community, my clients, prospects and ...

Article Marketing

Did you know that getting your articles circulated free on the internet doesn’t just bring you an ongoing stream of new customers, it also brings ...

The perfect Chrisrtmas present?!

Priced at £1.92 million and 10 months in the making, the iPhone 3G S Supreme is the perfect Christmas present for the person who has ...

‘Clean’ Advertising?

We wrote an article on the 24th November about Waitrose and its teaming up with Shell. We have just come across another article describing a ...

‘Clean’ Advertising?

We wrote an article on the 24th November about Waitrose and its teaming up with Shell. We have just come across another article describing a ...

Marketing and your business plan

How does marketing fit into your business plan? There are a number of companies that can help you construct a business plan and provide a ...

What should you pay a marketing officer?

With a typical salary of £27,397, a marketer at this level is also likely to be paid a bonus of £1,800. A marketing officer working ...

Calling all men – do you want a 6 pack??

I came across this article this morning about a new vest by George of ASDA that gives men an instant 6 pack and reduces man ...

How well does your website score?

Three key things you should know about your website and how it is performing are: The Strongest Pages on your website – Determines what the ...

The definitive explanation of ….MARKETING!!!!

Hopefully, this will clear up any confusion …   You’re a woman and you see a handsome man at a party. You go up to him ...

The definitive explanation of marketing!

Hopefully, this will clear up any confusion … You’re a woman and you see a handsome man at a party. You go up to him ...

Online facts and figures

When looking for some recent facts on consumer online behaviour, I came across this (click the header title to see the report in full) and ...

Waitrose to sell products at Shell petrol-station forecourts

Some good news for a Tuesday found online this morning: Oil giant Shell is to begin selling grocery products from retailer Waitrose at its UK ...

Coca Cola aims to target………..everyone!

I came across a very ambitious article discussing Coca Cola’s marketing objectives – being ‘laser-focussed’ at doubling its profits by 2020 by targeting everyone globally! ...

E Marketing (for Law Firms)

I have extensive experience in working with a number of firms from the legal sector and e-mail marketing can be a tricky business. Aside from ...

Whatever next?!

Marks & Spencer’s Christmas advertising campaign has been accused of sexism. The ASA is assessing eight complaints it has received over a line spoken by ...

BMW sign as 2012 Sponsor

Taken from an article on Marketing Week. The car maker will be the tier one automotive sponsor of the Games after agreeing a deal with ...

Jamie Oliver – a seriously clever businessman

Breaking news that I have come across is that Jamie Oliver is launching a dating portal on his website through a 2 year deal with ...

No single marketing effort works all the time for every business

Never a truer statement in marketing! BMC advises that companies rotate several marketing tactics and vary your approach. Your customers tune out after a while ...

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