What Are the Best Low-Cost Marketing Strategies for NZ Businesses?
Marketing feels more expensive than ever, but NZ businesses don’t need big budgets to make real impact. This blog breaks down three of the highest-ROI, lowest-cost channels from email marketing, organic social media, and local SEO and shows how small, consistent actions can help NZ SMEs grow visibility, trust, and sales without relying on paid ads.
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Brown Bag Series with Rahul
In this episode of our Brown Bag Series, Fran chats with Rahul Watson-Govindan, Loomio CEO, Senior Executive, Director and Investor, about the purpose of a business strategy.
Why Professional Services firms should outsource marketing
For many New Zealand Professional Services firms, having a dedicated marketer in their firms has never been a priority. They have a Sales or Business Development Team, and use their admin staff to manage occasional ‘marketing tasks’ including social media posting, website content management and adhoc newsletters to clients.
How Conversion Rate Optimisation works
Conversion Rate Optimisation (or CRO as it is commonly known), is how you work out how many visitors come to your website, and what you want them to do once they get there.
Meet Fran
Since launching my Virtual Marketing business, I’ve been asked a lot about how I got to the point to have the courage to do it.
User Experience - why a good UX is key
User experience is what your customer or user has whenever they engage with your business. Watch our video for more info from our Founder and Chief Client Officer, Fran Bellingham.
Returning to marketing from a break
Our Founder and Chief Client Officer, Fran, shares her experience starting her marketing career again after having her family, and how you can do this too.
CRO - how it works
Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) is an ongoing thing you need to do for any online store or business. You cannot send a shop live online and consider it done, you need to regularly ensure it's converting as well as it can for you, here's how.
Do you really need a new website?
Often you don't need a NEW website, you might just need your website updated, optimised or changed to a new template within the platform you're using like Wordpress, Squarespace or Shopify.
How to ensure you hire the right marketer for your business
Now more than ever we are aware of our business head counts and costs and it's important to consider what role marketing can play in your business, and the best person to do this.
SEM - what Search Engine Marketing is and how it works
Understand the basics of search engine marketing by viewing our Founder and Chief Client Officer, Fran, as she talks about it in plain english - including why it's important for you to use.
SEO - Search Engine Optimisation - How It Works
Understand the basics of what SEO is, how it works and why it's important to your business to ensure it's the best and optimised as much as it can be. Presented by Fran Bellingham, Founder and CCO of Virtual Marketers.
Meet Martina
When I was a teenager I decided I wanted a job that involved wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase everyday - the obvious next step was a marketing degree.
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