Three marketing focus areas to grow your business next year

Three marketing focus areas to grow your business next year

It’s tempting to start the year with big plans and a long list of ideas – new campaigns, new platforms, new content formats, new tools. But trying to do everything at once usually leads to overwhelm, rushed execution and a lack of clear results. When you’re...
Don’t miss the sale: How to nurture and close more opportunities

Don’t miss the sale: How to nurture and close more opportunities

Marketing can bring in leads but leads alone don’t pay the bills. Too often, businesses invest heavily in generating interest only to watch opportunities slip away because there’s no clear plan to nurture and close the sale. At OCTOPUS Marketing, we see this all the...
Think you don’t do any marketing for your business?  Think again.

Think you don’t do any marketing for your business? Think again.

We meet many business owners who say something along the lines of, ‘We don’t do any marketing for our business. Never needed to.’ Respectfully, we disagree. Because any form of external communication is, at heart, marketing – whether it’s in person, on the phone,...