The Marketing Bureau

By Brian H Meredith
From the NZBusiness Magazine"Marketing Maestro" Archive.
First published September 2002

Question: How many products & services do you, in your professional and/or personal life, choose solely (or even primarily) on the basis of price?

Answer:  I am pretty sure I am right when I speculate that your answer is “not many”. Read more >>

First Published on www.marketing.about.com

Are you spending time marketing your product, but still not selling as much as you would like? Marketing Guide, Laura Lake shares some basics that too many businesses miss in trying to find the answer to this question Read more >>

In a small or medium sized business where resource can be scant and expertise limited, marketing is often avoided as a concept that is best suited to the corporates. In reality, marketing is a vital concept, philosophy and practice in any business of any type or size. The following 10 Tips are not the complete picture but should get you thinking about some of the things that really do matter in your business.

First Published on www.marketingsurvivalkit.com Read more >>

If marketing is at the centre of the business universe, then the Brand is at the centre of the marketing universe.

Every customer and potential customer has a relationship with your Brand – good or bad but never indifferent. This relationship does not simply influence purchasing behaviour, it dictates it. Your Brand franchise is the sum total of every tiny “behaviour” in which your Brand engages and each of those behaviours will either add to or detract from the relationship with your customer or potential customer. Read more >>