Promotional Strategy: Sound Your Horn

Promotion forms an important part of any marketer's remit, but are you embracing new promotional opportunities and finding the optimum promotional mix?. This article, part of our series on developing a marketing strategy, aims to explore how you can ...

Pricing Strategy: Name Your Price

A well thought-out pricing strategy is crucial to optimizing both sales volume and profit. This article, part of our series on developing a marketing strategy, aims to explore how you can develop an effective pricing strategy that optimizes both sale ...

Product Development: What You Want, Baby I Got It

You are not selling a single, tangible product in isolation. This article, part of our series on developing a marketing strategy, aims to explore the importance of developing an augmented product or service and why it's crucial to increasing revenue. ...

Segmentation: Are You My Type?

No company has the resources to successfully satisfy every potential target market. This article, part of our series on developing a marketing strategy, aims to explore how you can build an effective customer segmentation. ...

Stakeholder Engagement: All Together Now

All stakeholders must pull in the same direction if you are to achieve the company's goals. This article, part of our series on developing a marketing strategy, aims to explore the importance of stakeholder engagement and its influence on a strategy' ...

Marketing Strategy: What Makes You Special?

What makes you different to everyone else? This article, part of our series on developing a marketing strategy, aims to explore how you can build a customer value proposition and take advantage of your USP. ...

Marketing Strategy: Is Your Vision in Focus?

Every business needs focus, and this must be fixed on an area of strength. This article, part of our series on developing a marketing strategy, aims to explore why your strategy should focus on just one of these three positions. ...

A Marketing Strategy Built On Knowledge

A marketing strategy must be built on firm foundations of knowledge. In this white paper we present a checklist of questions (or an audit) that will help develop an effective marketing strategy. ...

Written by Paul Hague

The Importance of the Value Equivalence Line

Understanding the position of brands on the Value Equivalence Line (VEL) is important as it leads to strategic decisions on both pricing and product development. This article looks at how a brand can determine its position in relation to the VEL and ...

Laddering Technique: A method to discover what people value

A ladder is a tool designed to allow you to reach something otherwise unreachable. In the same way, “laddering” as applied to market research is a technique designed to acquire nuggets of information which are otherwise very difficult to get at. ...

Written by Thomas Grubert