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5 Tips On Creating A Brand Identity For Your Small Business

August 10, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Business is a competition. If you want your small business to start strong, you have to stand out. Just because you’re not a large company with hundreds of employees doesn’t mean you can’t have unique and memorable branding. Branding is essential for any business. It’s what dictates how you market your products and services. So […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: brand goals, brand strategy, branding, small business branding, winning brand strategy

How Do You Convert Leads?

August 2, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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The best way to generate a lead is to ask happy customers for referrals. However, if you are a new business or expanding your business, you may need to try another method to generate leads and brand awareness, such as developing a lead magnet. But before you do that, it’s important to know how to identify […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: customer buyer journey, lead conversion, lead conversion process, lead conversion process for small business, lead generation, unique value proposition

Sales 101: How to Measure Cost Per Lead and Cost Per Sale

June 21, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Sales 101: How to Measure Cost Per Lead and Cost Per Sale OG

With any marketing or advertising campaign you execute within your business, it’s vital to evaluate its effectiveness. These campaigns aim to bring in new customers and generate sales, but how can you measure if they’re working? You don’t want to continue spending money on the campaigns if they’re not producing the results you want. Additionally, […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: advertising campaign, cost per lead, cost per sale, generate sales, return on investment

5 Digital Marketing Strategies to Drive Your Sales

June 1, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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The eagerness to increase sales stimulates online retailers to resort to various tools. They do their best to ensure that their precious time and resources are not wasted; this involves more than writing a few blog posts and occasional social media publications. Professionals can speed up their website performance, improve product lines, make the most […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: chatbot, digital marketing tips, Internet retailers, marketing strategy, online retailers

Blogging for Business Part II: Monetizing a Blog

May 24, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Blogging for Business Part II_ Monetizing a Blog OG

Content is King. If you build a blog that consistently gives valuable advice that improves the life or business or your target customer, you will have more customers than you can handle. In Part I of this series, we discussed how to launch a blog. Once you’ve put in the hard work to build up […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: monetization of a blog, monetization strategy, monetizing a blog, Optimizing your blog, SEO plug-ins

5 Steps to Hiring Your First Salesperson the Right Way

May 31, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

5 Steps to Hiring Your First Salesperson the Right Way OG

As a small business owner, there is a lot on your plate. You are the marketing person, the salesperson, the bookkeeper, and the overall strategist and planner. Whew… it’s a lot! But as you begin to grow your business, you want to think about outsourcing or hiring to fill some of those duties to move […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: Customer Relationship Management, developing your sales process, hire your first salesperson, professional salesperson, sales cycle

How Video Content Marketing Can Improve Your SEO

May 18, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

How Video Content Marketing Can Improve Your SEO OG

Each year many marketing trends come and go, but if you look around, you will see many such trends having a great impression on our lives. On the top of that list, we have video content marketing trends. Nowadays, the use of video marketing is increasing at a very high rate. According to a study, […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: content marketing, small business video marketing, video content marketing, video marketing, video marketing strategy for your business

How to Use Email Marketing as a Guerrilla Tactic to Boost Your Small Business

May 25, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

How to Use Email Marketing as a Guerrilla Tactic to Boost Your Small Business OG

Guerilla marketing is a marketer’s ace in the hole. When it’s done right, it has the potential to elevate your brand into the stratosphere.  When we think of guerrilla marketing, we think of big, splashy campaigns – but what happens when you marry guerrilla marketing with an email? If you can believe it, it is […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: email content, email marketing, guerrilla marketing, guerrilla marketing campaign, guerrilla marketing email

How to Send an Effective Email to Anyone

May 3, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

How to Send an Effective Email to Anyone OG

In this age of texting, tweeting, abbreviations, and excessive use of emojis, writing an effective email has become a bit of a lost art. As someone who gets hundreds of emails a day, I see so many poorly written pitches and email requests that I felt compelled to write this post as a public service […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Your Small Business Tagged With: Bad emails, email marketing techniques, proofread your email copy, send an email, subject lines

How to Convert Clients by Focusing on Abandoned Carts

April 27, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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On average, only three out of ten shopping carts make it through the full sales process. That leaves a whopping 70% of business sitting in limbo as abandoned carts. We see it as an unavoidable fact, but there’s a lot we can do to reclaim those clients. You’ll never convince every client to rethink their […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Fix Your Business Tagged With: cart abandonment tactics, competitor deals, Prevent Cart Abandonment, retargeting, top cause of cart abandonment

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