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9 Tips on How to Manage Your Finances as a Small Business Owner

October 25, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Being laser-focused on your finances is an essential part of being an entrepreneur. It goes beyond simply having separate business and personal checking accounts. You’ll need to pare down your personal expenses as much as you can in the beginning stages of your small business, so you ensure you’re making enough money to keep your […]

Filed Under: Cash Flow & Finance, Grow Your Business Tagged With: business budget, business expenses, cash, find money to start your small business, managing your finances

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

9 Tips on How to Cultivate an Entrepreneurial Mindset

October 18, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Strengthening your entrepreneurial mindset is an essential facet of being a successful business owner. Whether you have an existing business or are getting ready to launch a new one, you should prioritize cultivating your mindset.  Building a business takes a lot of work and effort, but the process will go more smoothly when you have […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: Building a business, cultivating your mindset, entrepreneurial mindset, learning opportunities, mindset of a prosperous entrepreneur

10 Signs of a Great Site

October 19, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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It is said that a cautiously outlined homepage will encourage people to dig deeper into your business. But is it just the homepage that makes your site one of the best?  Needless to say, the homepage is the first notion of the brand on a client’s mind. But there are many more factors that go […]

Filed Under: Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business Tagged With: branding elements, Call-to-action button, creating an effective website, success of your business online, website's functionality for mobile devices

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

9 Sales Funnels Every Small Business Owner Needs

October 5, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Marketers and copywriters like to make sales funnels sound complicated, but they don’t have to be. The secret to a great email is being as helpful online as you are in person. Don’t send your prospects junk.  Always add value. The moment a subscriber opts into your email list is when they are most interested […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: Re-engagement Sequence, sales funnels, shopping cart abandonment, social media, upsell sequence, welcome sequence

Developing A Marketing Strategy – 4 Critical Steps for Success: Part I

October 4, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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It’s time to take marketing seriously. You may have a fantastic product or service, but if customers are not aware it exists, there’s no point in being in business. To make sure your product is exposed to consumers, you need marketing strategies that work for your small business. This article will focus on developing a […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: Create Customer Value, Define Your Target Market, developing a successful marketing plan, developing your marketing plan, marketing strategy, unique selling proposition

How To Improve SEO On WordPress?

October 5, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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We started with one assumption while preparing this list of SEO strategies: you’re busy. So, these are approaches that you can use right now (long-term commitment is not required). Of course, there are many more techniques, but this is a beautiful place to start. Remember, you don’t have to utilize all of these (though you […]

Filed Under: Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business Tagged With: internal and external links, Permalinks, rank higher in the search engines, search engine rankings, SEO technique, sitemaps, web hosting provider

9 Essentials to Create a Winning Business Plan

September 28, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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There is truth in the old adage, “if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.”  This is no different for your business. If you don’t have a formal business plan for your scale-up business, then now is a good time to look at what you need to include to help you create the […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: business funding, business plan, efficient and productive business, roadmap to achieve success, strategic sales and marketing plan

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