Marketing Study Lab - Actionable Marketing Knowledge: A Look Back at 2019 - Christmas Special

Hello, I’m the Lego Master of Marketing!

Odd statement to start a profile, but go with it, it’ll make sense.

You know when you have loads of Lego all over the floor and it just looks like one big pile of nothingness. Not only does it look a mess, it’s a pain when you stand on it.

I take these bricks and start to make sense of how they all fit together.

If your marketing feels like a pile of painful Lego, let’s chat and get those building blocks fitting together: peter@marketingstudylab.co.uk

Why is this an issue?

The biggest problem facing todays marketing departments is the severe lack of qualified marketers, which usually happens by accident.

It’s not your fault, this usually happens by accident.

Perhaps there was an immediate need to design a website or create some literature and you needed someone to coordinate this – before you know it, Mark is the new marketing department.

Maybe your business has experienced some rapid growth, expanded and was looking to promote within or Andrea from customer service fancied her hand at marketing and is now in charge of all corporate comms.

Or perhaps your competition is way too active on social media and you feel you need to be present on this platform as well. Get Hayley to post ‘stuff’ – she’s young enough to understand how to do this.

You get the idea!

These circumstances lead to 100s of hours of wasted time and money by focusing on the short-term tactics rather than a long-term strategic approach that will make a difference.

Even worse than this, the misplaced management of employees creates missed business opportunities, leaving money on the table that many didn't even know was there!

Hello, I’m Peter!
I can help with this.

I’ve been there, seen Marketing Departments churning out worthless tactical marketing communications that do nothing but damage a company’s reputation, wasting peoples time and reducing, not building long-term brand value.

I specialise in training programmes that will alter the mind-set of lost / forgotten / unqualified marketer's, by developing the skills needed to confidently create successful, long-term marketing strategies that generate business opportunities.

How is this done? Tell me, tell me now!

Quite simply by removing the pain points and problems than many marketers face as they haven’t had the training or been given the opportunity to develop their marketing skills through;

Strategic Marketing Planning
Professional Marketing Qualifications
Marketing Training Days
Mentoring
Tutoring

Any business that is not benefiting from the opportunities marketing will create is missing out MASSIVELY! The chances are that the marketing tactics that are being deployed focus on pushing the wrong messages of ‘Buy. This. Now’ to the wrong people (who don’t even care you exist), creating minimal awareness and even less success.

Positioning a company through a strategic marketing approach, not only carves out a point of difference for a company to differentiate themselves from the competition, but creates a unique proposition within the marketplace that highlights the problems it helps to fix for those that care enough to seek out this solution. Moving a company from a wasteful and unwanted push strategy to one that creates value where customers will actively gravitate towards this value proposition.

This changes your marketing and the marketing department from being viewed as a cost centre that haemorrhages money, to the department that creates value and saves money in the long-term.

And here’s a little bit of social proof for you:

‘It is refreshing to see someone with a passion for the profession producing such valuable content for others to learn from.’

‘He was genuine and very honest in his approach and it was a pleasure working through this with Peter. An ‘out of the box’ thinker, he enabled me to consider different approaches'.

Happy Marketing
Peter

www.marketingstudylab.co.uk

I would love to get your feedback on how I can improve the podcast or what you would like to hear in forthcoming episodes so either leave a comment or contact me directly - peter@marketingstudylab.co.uk

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A Look Back at 2019 - Christmas Special - Episode 92

Dec 31, 2019

What Episode Snippets are in this look back of Marketing Study Lab 2019:

Using Mailchimp and the Handsome Noel Edmonds with Catherine Gladwyn the Owner of Delegate VA - Episode 41
https://bit.ly/2sMfQq5

- We discover how Catherine got on when she was on TV!

Sweet Social Media Strategies with Nicole Osborne the Founder of Lollipop Social - Episode 49
https://bit.ly/2Q6RFdT

- Nicole takes us through her steps of social media greatness

A Marketing Career with Patrick Ward Editor-in-Chief at High Speed Experts – Episode 77
https://bit.ly/2MiFhXn

- Patrick discussed the importance of qualifications and practical marketing experience

Ditch the Act with Co-Author Ryan Foland - Marketing Study Lab Special
https://bit.ly/2Q6o0Sk

- Ryan walks us through the 3-1-3 challenge and how easy but difficult it can be to describe the problem you solve

Small Business, Big Marketing with Tim Reid - Episode 57
https://bit.ly/35L9xS5

Tips on Passing Your Marketing Qualification with Accounting Exam Coach James Perry - Episode 59
https://bit.ly/2PKcSeR

- James highlights the importance of using real life examples in your exams and .... in real life!

B2B Marketing with Michael Field the B2B Competitive Strategy Consultant from EvettField Partners - Episode 67
https://bit.ly/2SeVlgp

- We discuss the difference between B2C and B2B marketing

Enjoy the Episode - Happy Marketing!

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Well it’s been an eventful year for the podcast, we so many amazing guests and more to come. As this is the last episode of the year, it’s an opportune time to take a look at some of the highlights from the podcast during this year.

Now it would be easy to just copy and paste ALL the episodes together, cause each one has brought it own nugget of Marketing genius, but unfortunately that would be around a day long and take to long to upload so you’re stuck with just a few and here they are!

Music Featured on this Podcast:
Sleepy in the Garden
Lobo Loco www.musikbrause.de
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