Tag: choosing customers

Choosing Customers

Choosing Customers is all about finding the right customers to fit with your creativity, ambitions and values. Remember: Not all customers are good customers. Oscar Wilde wrote: “The play was a great success but the audience was a total failure”. There was obviously a mis-match between the play and the audience! So what should you …

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Authentic Marketing for Creative Businesses (video)

Authentic marketing is the process of communicating openly, honestly and genuinely with customers and other audiences. Authentic marketing can only occur when you are ‘on the same wavelength’ as the person or people with whom you are communicating; it is about finding a natural resonance with audiences so that communication is easy, natural and genuine. …

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Don’t discount prices!

Thanks to Natalie Bolton from Lion Eyes Television for telling me about this amusing video. It’s fun to watch – and it raises some important issues about pricing and customers for creative businesses and cultural enterprises. If customers believe you will discount prices, it’s because they think they can go elsewhere and get the same …

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Raising Finance from Fans

Raising finance from loans or investments can be a major challenge for all types of businesses, and it’s especially difficult when credit is scarce and investors are feeling the pinch. So any alternative ways of raising funds are worth exploring. Enterprises in the creative, cultural and digital sector have creativity at the centre of their …

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