Marketing is key to driving sales into your business, and it’s the one thing you constantly need to work on from day one. If you are a local business, your marketing approach can be offline and online. Thanks to the advanced targeting capabilities, you can use online ads as a cost-effective way to get exposure […]
Marketing Strategies to Launch Your Small Business, Part 1
After spending time researching your niche target market and developing a business plan, the next step is to launch your small business. Now, you typically want to start your soft marketing efforts online at least three to six months before your official opening. Let’s discuss some marketing strategies for getting customers in the door. Some […]
How to Determine Your Marketing Approach
There are numerous marketing methods available to small business owners today. What marketing approach will you choose? Will you build a brand on social media? If so, which platforms will you focus on? Will you attend industry trade shows or give out flyers on the street? Will you send direct mail or make cold calls? […]
How to Measure Your Marketing Campaign Efforts
If you plan on investing in digital marketing, it’s important to know how to measure your marketing campaign effectiveness. If your marketing campaign works great, you’ll want to know so you can recreate your success! So, how do you check the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns and compare it with your expectations? That’s the topic […]
7 Ways to Jump-start Your 2023 Small Business Marketing
We’re heading for the last quarter of the calendar year, and it’s a busy one. Holiday sales can make up a big chunk of your annual revenue as a small business owner! While you’re probably preparing for the holiday season right now, today I want to encourage you to think even further ahead. In the […]
7 Steps to Prepare for Holiday Season Sales
It’s only September, but the time is NOW to prepare your small business for holiday season sales. One thing I’ve learned in my decades-long career helping small businesses is that you can never start too early for the holidays. Q4 sales can massively increase your bottom line, but to maximize your results, you’ll need time. […]
10 Dos and Don’ts of Working with Micro-Influencers
In my last article, I started a two-part series on working with micro-influencers and why it’s so beneficial for small business owners to do so. We learned that: Micro-influencers are people with 1,000 to 100,000 followers on a social media platform who create content for a targeted niche audience. If your niche audience aligns, micro-influencers […]
How to Work with Micro-Influencers
Eighty percent of marketers say influencer marketing is effective, and 89 percent say it works just as well (if not better) than other marketing channels. Seventy-one percent of marketers say the quality of customers and traffic from influencer marketing is better than other sources. This post is part one of a two-part series on how […]
14 Steps to Effective Sales Outreach Strategy
There is no easy way to close a sale; many things are involved in creating an effective sales outreach strategy. To drive sales, you must: Be clear on your niche target customer Understand their biggest challenge Determine where they spend time online Create amazing content Position your business against the competition Communicate value consistently And […]
3 Tips to Boost Your Ecommerce Site Performance
Doing business has changed dramatically since the inception of the ecommerce market. Customers nowadays no longer need to visit brick-and-mortar stores to shop, all thanks to a wide array of available online stores and platforms. While ecommerce made shopping a streamlined, easy experience for consumers, there’s still a lot of room for improvement. No matter […]
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