Entries by Darren Stevens

How to make the best use of Linkedin in 2025

With over one billion users worldwide and continuous updates to its core features, LinkedIn remains the go-to platform for professionals looking to connect, learn, and grow their businesses. Long gone are the days when it was just a platform to find your next job. But with ever-evolving algorithm updates and shifts in user behaviour, making […]

The Challenges of Managing a Marketer When You Are Not a Marketer – And How to Overcome Them

Running a successful business requires bringing in diverse talent with expertise in various fields, and marketing is definitely no exception. For many business owners or managers, however, managing a marketer can be daunting, especially when marketing isn’t your forte. From understanding technical jargon to setting realistic expectations, navigating this relationship can be tricky. In this […]

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Why Your Google Business Listing is an Essential Marketing Tool

In today’s digital age, where your online presence is absolutely crucial, your Google Business listing is one of the most powerful marketing tools at your disposal. It’s more than just a simple directory listing—it’s a gateway for potential customers to find, learn about, and engage with your business. Here’s why maintaining an optimised Google Business […]

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Prestbury Marketing to take part in Seminar for start-up businesses

Darren Stevens from Prestbury Marketing is taking part in a free online Seminar on 23rd June organised by Eagle Tower titled “How to make your New Business soar”. It is specifically aimed at people who are thinking about starting a new business or have recently done so,

Starting a new business can be a very exciting time. But it can also be daunting, with so much to think about and do. Eagle Tower have put together a line up of experts that will cover all the basics you need to know from a legal, financial, marketing and sales perspective.

Darren’s session “The ten Marketing things your business should be doing” acknowledges that one of the daunting things when you start a new business is the seemingly endless list of things on your marketing “to do list”. Some of these can appear quite technical and with others you can spend endless hours trying to craft the perfect message. The sheer choice of marketing options can be bewildering and often one of the hardest questions facing you will be – “how much marketing is enough”.

With over 30 years’ marketing experience, Darren will in this highly practical session provide clarity on what he considers are the 10 most important marketing things any start up or early stage business should be doing.

The pandemic has caused people to re-evaluate what they are doing with their lives and this is expected to lead to an increase in people deciding to set up their own business.

The event also features speakers from Eagle Tower, Hazlewoods, JV Consultancy and Hughes Paddison.

Anyone wishing to reserve a space can do so here.

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Clean Air Cheltenham seeking a volunteer to be their Publicity Co-ordinator

We are helping Clean Air Cheltenham spread the word about a volunteer position to become their Publicity Co-ordinator. The position would obviously be ideal for anybody who can share the organisation’s passion for the subject. The opportunity would enable somebody to gain practical experience in this field and demonstrate a track record of achievement. More […]

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Marketing in uncertain times

We are most definitely living and working in a period of unprecedented change, where almost everything that we have accepted to be normal is changed for the forseeable future, “thanks” to Coronavirus. Here at Prestbury Marketing we come into daily “virtual” contact with many businesses and it has been both heartening and quite remarkable the […]

How do you know your website is working?

This is one of the most common questions we are asked. To be clear this is not usually in the context of whether or not the site is down, but more a matter of, is it being found as well as it should be and is it making the most of the visitors it does […]