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Washtub Laundry Case Study

Washtub is an established business that provides specialised industrial laundry services to the secondary healthcare and hospitality sectors in the Western Cape, South Africa. The business plateaued three years ago, experienced some client loss and was not having success acquiring new business.

Braintree Clothing Case Study

Braintrees Clothing has been at the forefront of producing beautiful ‘natural clothing’ for 20 years now, championing eco-fibres since humble beginnings in the mid 1990’s. They engaged The Marketing Centre to build an on-the-ground retail presence that would raise their public profile and communicate their brand values to consumers.

Menzies Case Study

Menzies, a significant accountancy firm, engaged with The Marketing Centre to help them redefine their brand and re-invigorate their market presence, helping them to be voted the National Accounting Firm of the Year in 2016.

Shannon Mackey

Part-time Senior Marketing Manager

Big biz Experience: Reebok South Africa (pty) Ltd; Illovo Sugar

Small biz Experience: MilliCare; Tafta

Lwandile Booi

Part-time Marketing Director

Big biz Experience: Vodacom, Vodafone (International) & Showmax

Small biz Experience: GSM renta fone (OR Thanmbo International) & Commode Business Solutions

Pedro Casimiro

Part-time Marketing Director

Big biz Experience: Massmart, Unilever, Marketing in 15+ countries across Africa

Small biz Experience: Advertising and media agencies. Apparel industry.

Joel Serman

Part-time Marketing Director

Big biz Experience: Fair Cape Dairies; Woolworths; Tiger Brands; Bitzer

Small biz Experience: Tuna Marine & Orlichem Chemicals

Simone Girling

Regional Director Cape Town

Big biz Experience: The Financial Times, The Penguin Group, Pearson Education, QVC, Jones Lang LaSalle

Small biz Experience: Nashua, PRS Alliance

Daniel Serman

Part-time Marketing Director

Big biz Experience: Umbro International Clothing brand; Fair Cape Dairies

Small biz Experience: D Purdue Group of Companies (CISA, Monument Tools, WondaSeal, Do-It.co.za); Bitzer International

Sally Shuttleworth

CEO

Big biz Experience: Coca Cola; Financial Services; Tourism; Shell Select and Ultra city; Property developers; McDonalds

Small biz Experience: Dizzy Dots Trading

Este Pretorius

Part-time Marketing Director

Big biz Experience: FNB & Dimension Data

Small biz Experience: SSI & Glyn Marais

Approach

Our method has been fine tuned through the years whilst working with many mid-size businesses. This results in you finding the best Marketing Director for your company and your culture. So how does this work?

Healthcheck

Business owners can become confused about marketing and that’s totally understandable. Between marketing consultant’s jargon and your sales team potentially considering marketing as part of their departmental function, it can become difficult to know how to move forward effectively. In fact, marketing results can lack focus or consistency, both in implementation and in measurement.

The Marketing Centre approach does away with all these confusing elements, encapsulated through our approach of marketing in a straight forward matrix, called the Marketing 360.

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Business Insights

As you would think, having a large team of highly skilled Marketing Directors provides us with access to an abundance of diverse know-how. We want to share this with you, so you can develop a better understanding of why certain factors work (and how), as well as why they don’t always work out as intended. Above all, knowing what to do next.

Digital Marketing 101: Email Marketing

If you are not email marketing, it begs the question why. You might have heard the term ‘spray and pray’ and chances are that you may also be frustrated at spending so ...

by Carolyn Dobbie
20 April 2018

What is SEO?

Dipping your toe in SEO… How often do you find what you’re looking for on the first page of an on-line search? Chances are, your hit rate is pretty good. ...

by Este Pretorius
09 April 2018

Doing Business in Africa

I often get asked as a marketer to demystify the big daunting but yet beautiful monster task that is trading in Africa. In my 20 years of travelling across our conti ...

by Pedro Casimiro
19 March 2018

How agile is your team?

I recently attended an ‘Agile for Executives’ workshop with one of our clients and, after more than 20 years of working within the creative, branding, marketing and UX fie ...

by Karen Senior
21 February 2018

Why are case studies a great marketing tool?

People Like to be told stories, amazingly people spend more than half their waking time daydreaming! Fortunately or unfortunately our brains tend to wander by nature, jumping ...

by Peter Ivanoff
16 February 2018

We asked our marketing directors for their 2018 marketing predictions: Here's what they said...

The beginning of a new year brings with it a slew of articles about the future: What’s next? What’s new? What do I need to know? ...

by Shannon Mackey
24 January 2018

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