Image via Wikipedia Thinking about selling – the actual process of finding a prospect and communicating with them until they are prepared to hire your company, is something that isn’t often talked about in professional and creative services organisations. “Sales” is still a dirty word for professionals.  We don’t like the implications of pressure, cold [...]








I love a quite “aside” from real work once in a while and so here’s an anti-marketing industry site for your entertainment. WARNING: there’s a lot of effing and blinding out there – not for the fainthearted. Adscam








Image by _Zahira_ via Flickr If you work in a niche environment and want to do some “trend spotting” for the next year, here’s a great idea on how to engage your prospects, clients, staff and key influencers. Start by finding a hot topic of the moment as the focus for your trend spotting.  You [...]








Ed founded Concep 7 years ago as an email marketing service and as B2B specialists.   They won business from both law firms and accounting firms early on and so now just do work for professional services clients. 4 years ago we saw that the space was getting congested [with other supplier agencies] and so we [...]








Image by rustybrick via Flickr A handy list compiled from the AdAge master blaster Power150 and nicely edited by the 77PR team Top UK marketing blogs list Nice to see a few we subscribe to listed up at the top there. If you have a marketing blog, you can submit it to AdAge and ask [...]








I think businesses should take new year resolutions as seriously as business planning. Many of us have track records of starting something that is life-improving with great enthusiasm as a new year resolutions only for it to fizzle out and fade during the first 60 days. Organisations could do well to think up their own [...]