Marketing for smaller businesses can be a real struggle , especially in the early stages. Having to ‘get the word out’ on a limited budget can be hard when you must try to understand what the best-value techniques are to attract new customer.

In this drive to digital quite often the old ways can be forgotten, especially for new businesses, enterprises and new marketers, I want to remind and maybe even introduce you to the power and importance of making sure radio is in your marketing plan, from free media to paid for promotion.

When it comes to SEO marketing, Google’s ever-evolving algorithms set the standard for what marketeers and agencies often go to great lengths to stay on top of.

Do you know who your competitors are? At first this may seem like a silly question; after all, if you are an accountancy firm, clearly your competitors are the other accountants in your local area. However, while this is true, for most businesses local and visible competitors are only part of the story.

Are you one of those businesses or business people that are spending hundreds or thousands of pounds or dollars on marketing, but not getting the results you want?