Synkd Blog

Brand: Beyond the facts…

Defining and knowing who your ‘ideal’ customer is one of the key pillars to brand and business success. Knowing specifically what makes your ‘ideal’ customer ‘tick’ isn’t just about knowing the main facts. Its essential in today’s busy global marketplace to look deeper in order to resonate and ‘connect’ to cut through the huge amount of noise and constant mental barrage of messages.

Of the thousands of messages any one person absorbs each and every day, only around

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Brand: What’s your value?

A successful brand ‘resonates’ with a select part of the market. It starts with the customer and has ‘the end’ in mind.

Actually a brand starts with a ‘value’ or series of congruent values that energetically resonate with a target customer, however your customer needs to buy into your ‘values’ to ensure that it resonates deeply. That’s why it’s a crucial step to identify both

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The success in failure

As business owners we’ve all experienced failure. I don’t think I’ve met too many people who admit to or enjoy the feeling. Like everyone I’ve had my share of failure over the past 4 years in business too. One big life and business lesson I’ve learned is that its the 2 ‘P’s: ‘Persistence and Pondering’ that help to counter the ‘F’ word and find the insights needed to discover why we fail, what to do differently and how to transform failure into success.

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Brand: To get the ‘gold’ on your customer you have to dig. Deep.

When it comes to knowing your ‘ideal’ customer, many businesses may ‘think’ they have a clear idea or understanding of who their customers are but my experience to date tells me it pays to dig a lot deeper to truly find the ‘gold’ on your customer. Never has the old marketing mantra been so appropriate and true than it is today (with fragmented media and record levels of noise in the marketplace): one way to cut through the noise is to simply ‘know your customer’.

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Who do you think you’re talking to?

When it comes to brand and marketing, there’s one factor that many businesses, business owners and entrepreneurs are at best guilty of taking for granted and at worst completely ignoring. Yet this one crucial factor in the business model is something that we’re all guilty of glossing over or answering with

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Is timing everything? It is with ice-cream!

When it comes to promoting your business, ‘timing’ really can make all the difference between success and failure.

Get your timing wrong and you risk missing out on riding that early euphoric ‘wave’. Too early and the market just won’t ‘get’ your offering – remember virtual reality anyone? Quick note: check out ‘augmented reality’ for a more up to date version. Get your timing too late in the game and well, it’s simply too late – you’ll miss the boat.

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Are you still relevant?

End of February already? By now most businesses will have hit the ground running with a focus on key goals and outcomes. But before you get into full stride, ease off for a minute, take heed and think about this important marketing question that might play a crucial part in determining your overall strategy and direction…

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Was YOUR business at the races?

A topical blog this month with a horse-racing theme given the start of the season here in Melbourne.

When it comes to marketing your business online, are you ahead of the pack, jockeying for position, or have you been left in the stalls? With this in mind, and with regards to your social media strategy,
it begs the question… ‘which social media platform is right for my business?

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The importance of being focused…

Success in marketing is built on a solid foundation – a reliable, relevant offering plus a combination of a focused and strategic plan as well as a sound strategy to ‘make the plan happen’.

The problems start to mount however because

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When a little marketing tweak can make you big $$$$s!

Sometimes in business we get blindsided or stuck in old ways of thinking. This is especially true if we’ve been in business for some time – we’ve seen and done it all before and consequently we lose focus, rest on our laurels, or lack that critical, creative or objective thinking essential to long-term business success.

Business as usual’ or ‘this is the way we’ve always done it’ are always warning signs for my marketing ears and are often death knells for many businesses who are going through the motions. Rigid, fixated mindsets have a lot to answer for! 😉

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