There is one thing that our clients constantly remind us is important to their business, that is a deal-breaker when engaging with a marketing agency. It isn't as tangible as many areas of marketing, but it does require the marketing agency to be on the same page.

Active Medical Supplies is the most successful medical supplies company in Queensland to the aged care and acute care sectors. Having built their reputation over decades of providing quality products manufactured in Australia and overseas, Active Medical Supplies has catapulted its business through innovation and customer care. Marketing Eye was originally employed to provide a comprehensive marketing audit. After this was successful completed, Marketing Eye was engaged to be the outsourced marketing department for the company developing a marketing strategy and implementing it over a period of time. Marketing Eye's engagement includes development of multiple websites, email marketing, branding, brand names, advertising, vehicle signage wraps, product branding, development of apps, rebranding Active Medical Supplies, promotional products, lead generation campaigns and more. In addition to this, Marketing Eye has been employed to name other companies for the group, develop multiple websites and the development of a magazine.

Outsourcing your marketing is inevitable whether you are using internal resources or external marketing agencies right now because of Coronavirus. Everyone is working from home, so which is more cost effective, efficient and with the greatest ROI?

One of the biggest mistakes any business owner can make is thinking that they are singularly capable of everything; accounting, management, finance, marketing etc.

We see all too commonly, small to medium business owners who think they know marketing. Reality check: just because you own your own business, this doesn’t make you a marketing expert. Its time to take your business to the next level by acting now and investing in both marketing and a comprehensive strategy to strategically and tactically help achieve your business goals in both the short and long term.

June is not for the faint hearted. Not only are business owners like me trying to get last minutes sales in to boost our financial performance, we are also trying to ensure that we take advantage of any tax breaks that may come our way thanks to the Australian Taxation Department. Sadly for me, I am not part of the criteria for the asset tax break of $20,000, but I am sure there are a few other areas that our accounting department can take advantage of.

Marketing Eye listens to what clients want and quite often adapts what we offer accordingly.

How do they do it? It’s a question that all entrepreneurs ask themselves at one stage or another. We see companies all the time that are in our space and they have grown phenonomenally over a short period of time. Sometimes they then fall flat and other times, they keep going. The latter is harder to achieve.