Communicating on Social Media During (and After) Pandemic Times

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Social media is still as important for your business in today’s world — and perhaps more important as data shows that consumers are shifting their lives online at a staggering pace. But as a small business, you may be unsure how to proceed with marketing your business and communicating during this time.

How to Write a Marketing Plan

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Every business begins with success in mind; few put it in writing. A well-prepared marketing plan can be a roadmap to guide you (and your staff or volunteers) through your businesses’ short- and long-term goals and challenges.

Why Isn’t my Business Showing up in Google Search Results?

A search result is what happens when I type some strategic words into a search bar on the internet (commonly known as “googling” something). Depending on what words or phrases I type into that search bar, google is going to select the results (search results) closest in content to what I typed into my search.

Email Marketing Quickstart

Now more than ever it’s important to stay in touch with your customers, but that often takes all the things small businesses and nonprofits don’t seem to have—time, effort and budget!

How Do I Get More Traffic to My Website?

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We’re talking about getting more traffic to your website. Little did I know so many people were totally unaware of this great (free) tool and I got a lot of follow up calls about the wonders of google!

The 5 Step Marketing Strategy During a Pandemic (and Beyond)

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If you’re still using last quarter’s marketing plan, you may be missing opportunities to reach your current customer base. Marketing is a process. It’s circular, cyclical, top-down, bottom-up, and hierarchical. It’s a matrix, it’s a pyramid…it’s a PROCESS! As with most processes, if one of the steps fails, the entire outcome falls short. So it […]

Are You Doing TOO MUCH Marketing? Cut it out!

Every chance I get to talk to marketers, I always as the question, “What platforms are you using now?” Inevitably, they respond with “Website, Facebook, LinkedIn……and, well, we have a Twitter and Instagram page but we don’t use them very much.”