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.

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!

Get Your Local Business On Google Search and Maps

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Showing up when customers are searching online is more important than ever. Ensure customers can find accurate, updated information about your local business on Google Search and Google Maps, no matter which device they use. In this workshop, you will learn how to create and manage a Business Profile on Google from start to finish. […]

Why Google+ is Dead and What to Do About It

The Google Business Profile page is, as I describe it to clients, the Facebook of Google – and it’s free! If you have a business, you can get a Google Business Profile page and use it for all kinds of things.

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 […]

Make Your Marketing Work—Track the Correct Analytics

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This session will discuss the most widely used analytics tools and how they can guide businesses and marketers with strategy, implementation and evaluation. You spend hours marketing your small business, but how do you know if your efforts are working? Marketing analytics provide valuable data on audience behavior, online ad success, site traffic sources, and […]