Biography

Some information about Dee…

Qualifications:

Chartered Marketer, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Fellowship is the highest status awarded by CIM, the World’s largest marketing body.

Marketing Experience:

27 years’ marketing experience gained from working initially with blue chip organisations and in the last 15 years with small and medium businesses. Dee has extensive experience in new product development and marketing strategy, with a track record of planning and delivering exceptional campaigns on a shoestring budget.

Copywriting experience:

Dee is an avid writer and has been writing sales letters, brochures, flyers, surveys, blogs, questionnaires and more for 27 years.  She is a “disciple” of Drayton Bird and David Ogilvy. Her aim is always to write relevant, charming and enticing copy that generates responses and sales. She sees no benefit in writing creative fluff that’s just a good read!

Training experience:

A fully-trained trainer, Dee delivers a number of marketing masterclasses and workshops in-house for businesses looking to train their employees or franchisees and on an individual delegate basis. Find out more about her one day ‘Ultimate Marketing on a Shoestring’ bootcamps and how they benefit small business owners.

Clients:

15 small businesses currently retain Dee’s services on a monthly basis.

Awards:

Dee has won seven awards for her press releases, adverts and media business articles, each one for generating the highest responses within the respective publication.

Author:

Dee is a bestselling business author.  Her first book, Powerful Marketing on a Shoestring Budget for Small Businesses, was the number one reader review rated small business marketing book on Amazon UK for over 12 months and is regularly in the top five bestselling small business marketing books.  The sequel, The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Book , was released in June 2011. It immediately became the best selling small business marketing book on Amazon and has alrady received 38 five-star reader reviews on that site.

Journalist and columnist:

Dee writes for The Financial Mail Women’s Forum, Hamerville Publications, RH Uncovered, Mums Inc. and many other magazines.

Blogger:

Dee is an enthusiastic, quirky and entertaining Marketing Blogger. You can read her blogs and subscribe to a fortnightly dose.

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