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*Imagine marketing that looks under the hood of your business –  beyond advertising and digital. Marketing that considers the operational realities that drive results.

Strategies, plans and tactics that help you spend more time working on your business and less time wondering how to market it.

Marketing that returns value to you. And reignites your passion for what you do.

That’s what MLAB does. We create value. We work for business.

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Sprint sessions are time-boxed periods in which a strategist with work with you to accomplish a specific goal.

Designed to help you navigate your brand and business, our strategists are commercial and considered. We help you analyze your options and prioritise your marketing.

Insights for change

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organisations that invest in innovative strategies can increase profits by up to 20% – where innovation isn’t always ‘breakthrough’. Exceptional outcomes can come from tiny insights.

10%

the percentage of revenue to be reinvested in marketing (across the entire marketing framework) is around 10% – but more or less depending on your growth or scale intentions

4P's

still one of the simplest marketing frameworks. Focus on the product, price and place and the promotion will follow.

Value

as important as the value returned to your business, is the value you provide to your market.

Insights worth reading

Put your money where your community is

Nearly 90 years in business is a long time for any brand, let alone one in the construction sector. Ninety years in business is also a long time to occupy a positive brand position in the parochial townships that dot the landscapes of the lower South Island. So how does Breen continue to so favourably ...

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The mould is there to be broken

When it was time for MLAB to do a team photoshoot we needed it to feel like us. We could have made it easy. Taken the photos outside, with the lake shimmering and the burly mountains rising in our midst. Hired a professional studio or found a plain white wall. There were any number of ...

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Why do we work on so many websites?

We are not, never will be, and could not ever be developers. Sure, we can whip up a cheeky WIX site, but just quietly, so can your Grandma. When it comes to the tricky stuff, we outsource the development to the experts. We do the thinking and planning – the brief. Then we’ll support with ...

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The non technical guide to marketing in a technical recession

Interest.co.nz, tells us that a technical occurs when a country has experienced two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. It's fair to say,  NZ is probably there.

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The difference between content that connects and content that converts.

Content is a funny thing. It really just means information passed on for the purposes of helping someone else understand something.

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The most basic introduction to understanding your digital footprint

We’re going to start with a bit of a caveat. We strongly suggest you engage a digital specialist or team to optimize your website for search rank and to set up AdWords. The world of Google search is quite changeable and knowing how to nail it takes practice (and probably patience!) The following acts as ...

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