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How to Use Social Media to Convert Sales Part 2

March 14, 2022 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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In part one of this series on social media conversions, we focused on the three most prominent social media platforms: Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. In Part 2 of this post, we’ll focus on the more niche players in the world of social media marketing. While their reach is slightly smaller, these sites can drive sales […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: LinkedIn Ads, LinkedIn Learning, LinkedIn posts, pinterest, social media conversions, Twitter Ads

How to Define Your Niche Target Customer

February 7, 2022 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Defining your niche target customer can be a real challenge for a small business owner. Still, once you have a clear idea of who your target customer is, it will enable you to develop content and marketing messages that will resonate with them. This is important because every small business has two challenges: limited time […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: create customer personas, customer persona, finding your niche, good niche, niche target customer, target customer

How to Win Big and Boost Sales in 2022

January 3, 2022 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Increasing sales is crucial to your brand’s growth. But the truth is, with each passing year, it’s becoming harder to meet the sales target. Those of you in business who manage sales know this already and might be wondering if there’s a way to seamlessly increase sales from the available revenue streams. As we embark […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: Cart Abandonment Email Campaign, crush your sales goals, Direct to consumer marketing, highly converting landing pages, personalized marketing strategy, sales strategies

8 Ways To Make Your Website Accessible

November 16, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

8 Ways To Make Your Website Accessible OG

One vital SEO tip is to never ignore user experience. Ranking high on search engines gets people to click to your website, but a great user experience is what makes people stay. Websites that are hard to error-ridden, hard to read, and impossible to navigate can turn off potential customers. Remember: many of your site […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: best website experience, creating an effective website, great user experience, web accessibility tips, website conversion

November 2021 #Smallbizchat: The Ultimate Marketing Engine and Finding Money for Your Small Business

November 11, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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#Smallbizchat Podcast LIVE is a monthly video interview show where small business owners can get answers to their questions. The focus of #Smallbizchat is to end small business failure by helping participants succeed as your own boss. Please join us live every third Wednesday of the month from 8-9 pm ET Live on my SmallBizLady Facebook […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Cash Flow & Finance Tagged With: funding, online entrepreneurs, subscription programs, target marketing, ultimate marketing engine, Unlock Untapped Markets

Mobile Copywriting Secrets for Killer Conversions

November 8, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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More than half of the global population accesses the internet using mobile phones. According to Statista, in the first quarter of 2021, mobile devices generated 54.8 percent of global website traffic. Naturally, it makes sense for small businesses and entrepreneurs to invest in mobile marketing to promote their businesses. One of the secrets to achieving […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: benefits of email marketing, creating mobile-friendly emails, erfect SMS Marketing Copy, SMS marketing, write sales and SMS copy

3 Things to Do NOW to Prepare for the Holiday Shopping Season

November 1, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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It’s November, and the holiday shopping season is right around the corner. In a few short weeks, your customers will be heading out to the stores with their shopping lists. In fact, Forbes says that one trend to watch this year is earlier shopping, with spending predicted to increase in November 2021, just like it […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: holiday marketing plan, holiday sales, holiday sales strategy, holiday workers, planning for the holiday shopping season, promotions strategy

5 Statistics To Create A Winning Ecommerce Marketing Strategy

October 26, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Data and statistics are empowering for marketers. Without the information about the data, guess would be the only thing available to make strategic decisions. However, that doesn’t always work. Marketing policies based on guess hardly make any sustainable growth. Especially when it comes to eCommerce, marketing has a huge role to play.   That’s where data […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: discounts, ecommerce business owner, Ecommerce Marketing Strategy, win more customers, winning Ecommerce Marketing Strategy

How to Create a Budget to Execute Your Killer Marketing Plan – Part II

October 11, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Now that you’ve developed your killer marketing plan in part one of this series, the next step is to determine how to pay for your marketing campaigns. Part one of this series focused on the development of your marketing plan. To execute it, you’ll need an allocated budget.  Creating a budget isn’t the most fun […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: allocate funding, Creating a budget, killer marketing plan, marketing budget, monthly marketing plans, set up a marketing budget

How to Build Great Sales Funnels

October 4, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Developing and managing sales funnels is one of the most powerful marketing engagement tools in your small business. Email marketing is your follow-up system in your business. Each type of sales funnel is a tactic of email marketing and can impact buyer behavior. Marketing happens in stages. It is the customer-buyer journey and the execution […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: email marketing, email nurture sequences, five stages of customer buyer journey, free sales funnel webinar, sales funnels are important, Value ladders

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