So you want to make your business successful but those pesky competitors keep stealing your prospects? Fear not! This guide to quickly creating a competitive advantage will soon have your competitors worried about you instead! A competitive advantage is often mis-understood, or not considered strategically. In this Video you will learn what you can […]
How To Quickly Create a Competitive Advantage in Your Marketplace
by Chris Hanlon on February 23, 2012 in Business Strategy, marketing, Video
Business Networking – After the Event
by Chris Hanlon on February 20, 2012 in marketing, Video
Following up from last week’s video on how to comfortably and effectively network at business networking events, in this video Chris answers some questions about how to proceed after the event…
Business Networking – How to Effectively & Comfortably Promote Your Business at Events
by Chris Hanlon on February 14, 2012 in marketing, Video
So you want to get some more clients or customers, but you get that cold empty feeling in your stomach when you think about pitching all night at a business networking event… In this short video Chris talks about the biggest mistakes business owners make when they are trying to promote their businesses. Of […]
What the Wahooly?!; Media Mingle; City Hop; and Generator
by Chris Hanlon on December 14, 2011 in Interesting topics, marketing
Time to share some of the interesting stuff from the past few days… Media Mingle I have been asked to travel up to Auckland to attend a Media Mingle event(#mediamingle) for months and months now, but the timing never clicked until last night. I had a ball! If you ever get the chance to go, […]
Welcome to the ‘Thumbs Up’ Economy
by Chris Hanlon on November 24, 2011 in marketing
Does it seem like this Social Media thing is just a popularity contest? Does it frustrate you that people seem to make a snap judgement on your business/product/service without even taking the time to try and understand what you are all about? Well I am not going to sugar-coat it: Welcome to the real world. […]
Key Influencers – The Next Frontier for CRM?
by Chris Hanlon on November 10, 2011 in marketing
Yesterday as part of my role with Telecom NZ, I attended the Data Advisory Network (DAN) breakfast meeting. DAN is a sub-group within the Marketing Association that specifically deals with the data side of contacting customers. Most are from the marketing campaigns side of things, dealing with demographics etc. And a few, like […]
Phoenix (& Martin Howey) Changed My Life! – Can they change yours too??
by Chris Hanlon on November 2, 2011 in Business Strategy, marketing, Video
As most of the people who follow my blog will have noticed, I have made a radical change in my approach to helping small businesses in the week-and-a-half since I returned from Phoenix… In this quick video I shot last night I explain what it is that has made this fundamental shift. I […]
Are You Linked In to Your Customers?
by Chris Hanlon on August 9, 2011 in marketing
LinkedIn is a great social networking site for whitecollar workers. If you or your customers already fit that description then you probably already know about it, if you don’t you are missing out! I am on LinkedIn on a daily basis, mostly for industry news and tips. On LinkedIn I follow the telecommunications industry (my […]
The Power of Webinars
by Chris Hanlon on March 9, 2011 in marketing
Depending on what sort work you do, you might have never heard the term webinar, or you may have attended a number of them. In this post I am going to explain what they are and some of the benefits they offer to any small business. A few years ago Teleseminars evolved into a fantastic […]
Advertising Conversation
by Chris Hanlon on February 3, 2011 in Interesting topics, marketing, Video
I find this video quite clever, and very accurate. Obviously it is aimed at the bigger advertisers but there is food for thought for any sized business.
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