Marketing Budgets have been handed down for the next financial year and you didn’t get the increased marketing budget that you were hoping for (or needing). Instead you’ve been asked to increase your sales with the same budget as last year, a budget that you barely scraped by with. Right ...
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Luckily, your Marketing Budget didn’t end up on accounts cutting room floor, so now what do you do with the increased budget? The natural tendency would be to make sure the budget gets spent, so you don’t lose it to another part of the business. However, before you run off and book next month’s ...
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The new financial year is here and if you are looking at ways to market your business or brand, but don’t have any marketing budget, then you’ll have to become very savvy at being able to use everything that you currently have available to you. It doesn’t really matter if ...
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Ever wondered, “Where or how do businesses spend their marketing budget?” This infographic may reveal some surprising data. Marketing is more than ‘just selling or getting leads’. It includes every piece of communication that a business uses on a daily basis. It creates audience engagement, strengthens your brand and helps ...
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The financial year has arrived and for many business’ it started a little lack lustre. With varying opinions on the state of the economy, one undeniable truth is that marketing budgets in business (irrespective of size) are being cut. It’s an interesting observation that business’ only tend to market when ...
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Back by popular demand, we are excited to announce our first marketing workshop for 2013: Slim your Marketing Budget Now This workshop was a sellout success in 2012, and shows business owners and entrepreneurs cost effective ways to market your business, to simply get more business for 2013. So, what ...
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There is more to Stella Design than the brands we build or the client-facing work you see. As you may know, Joanne has been volunteering with Strathfield SES for more than six years. After the recent fire that destroyed Strathfield SES HQ Stella, our Creative Director, also decided it was ...
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We’re bursting at the seams to launch the first of our marketing pieces called “PLUS”. These design supplements were created to help the clients and friends of Stella Design to understand the extent of the design and development service we provide, on an intimate level. I have many of you ...
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It has always been a part of Stella Design to mentor young creatives, to give back to the community and to the industry. Whether it be Stella (herself), mentoring and nurturing creative talent, Joanne, training new skills or one of the team members taking someone under ‘their wing’ from the ...
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We’ve always been a fan of networking, it’s the fastest and most cost-effective way to build any business. BNI is a member based networking organisation that Stella Design has been involved with for over 10 years now, and we are looking for more members. BNI CBD Forum (one of the ...
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