We’ve all been there - or know someone who has – where we’ve bought or attended something that hasn’t lived up to the claims made about them by the marketing or sales messages.

No, it’s not what you’re thinking....

Gotta love this email from CostCo that caught our attention recently, they're selling toilet rolls for £18.99 and a speedboat for £105,000 - in the same email!!

Writing content or thinking of something to put out in your socials can feel like it comes naturally one day and then horribly challenging the next.

Emojis have been around for a long time now....

What’s car washing got to do with my business?...

Top Tip from thebestof Hastings – Stop Selling, Start Helping

You Gotta Try This We’ve got a proper golden nugget for you this week

Things are changing....

Technology isn’t the answer to everything - just have a conversation.

It won’t be much of a surprise to you, if I tell you that information flows more freely and quickly now, than ever before....

There’s an average of 121 emails dropping into each of our inboxes every day!...

When we communicate through the written word alone, it's really hard to build relationships....

It’s fair to say, as business owners, we’re no strangers to change....

Over the last few weeks, we’ve given you some tips on specific parts of ads, as we know so many businesses get their ads wrong – and so they don’t work, or don’t generate the response that was hoped for......

If you’ve struggled with Facebook Ads before or maybe you haven’t used them at all before but, know you should, then this week’s tip is perfect for you....

You may think this sounds obvious, but at its heart, marketing is all just maths....

This week's Top Tip is all about your website and a clever little test you can use to make sure it's not costing you leads and sales!

From 3 to 31 August, get a 50% discount when you eat in at restaurants that are registered with the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme.

It’s fair to say, the last 3 weeks or so have been a whirlwind of new announcements, uncertainty and for a lot of people it feels like there are more questions being raised than answered.

Remember the days of when the doorbell would ring and there stood, with clipboard in hand, was a rep from Company X looking for people’s feedback on their latest product....

So, it’s only been 7 days since our last Top Tip Tuesday and since then several new measures have been put in place to slow the Coronavirus pandemic....

We talk a lot about ways to make yourself stand out, get attention and get new customers to engage with, and ultimately buy from you....

I’ll start this week’s Top Tip with a quote from one of the great marketers of the modern age – Dan Kennedy: “The first big leap from ordinary business to big income business comes quickly once the business owner makes the intellectual, emotional and actual switch from ‘doer’ of his or her thing to ‘marketer’ of his or her thing”.