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5 Big Reasons Why Marketing Campaigns Fail

April 7, 2026

We learn as we go in professional services, and that is especially true when it comes to analysing why marketing campaigns “fail”. To be fair, few of us are trained in marketing at all so…

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The 5 Steps To An Effective Advertising Campaign

March 20, 2026

To create an effective advertising campaign – one that gets you the results you wanted to begin with – there are 5 steps. Many professional services firms miss at least a couple of them, and…

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How Effective is Advertising For Lead Generation?

January 27, 2023

Lead generation advertising is one of those things that every firm considers and is willing to do…but only if they are confident it will work. And every firm has seen too much of it that…

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8 Seconds to Get – or Lose – Your Prospect. Maybe less.

March 25, 2022

You will get or lose your prospect – your potential future client – in just 8 seconds….well, actually it is a lot less than that. The clock is ticking…and a lot faster than you realise.…

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Create Effective Advertising By Starting With These 2 Things

July 28, 2021

At some point every adviser struggles to create effective advertising. It’s not our coe skill of course, but typically the “struggle” is because 2 really big things are overlooked… Why are you doing it in…

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Why advertising doesn’t work sometimes

August 5, 2020

At some point most professionals consider using advertising as a means of lead generation, and usually it doesn’t work quite as well as they hoped. There are a few things to get right when it…

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