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7 Management Tips for Addressing a “Mean Girl” Office Culture

June 22, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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If “mean girls” were just fictitious characters in comedy send-ups of high school, that would be one thing: a funny movie that makes you laugh and is mostly forgettable. But when “mean girls” (or at least the grown-up equivalent) are real-life coworkers and employees who are negatively affecting your office culture, that is a different […]

Filed Under: Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business Tagged With: Celebrate women’s holidays, mean girl office culture, onboarding new employees, productivity in the workplace, women career advancement, work environment

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

Four Ways to Measure Profitability to Grow Your Small Business

June 14, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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The goal of any small business is to be profitable. But for the average business owner who isn’t well versed in determining the financial health of their business, how can they measure their profitability? While there are many different reports you can run, it can be difficult to know what numbers you should track.  We’ll […]

Filed Under: Cash Flow & Finance, Grow Your Business Tagged With: financial health of business, operating profit, Profit and profitability, profitability ratios, small business profitability

Cybersecurity: It’s Not Just an IT Problem, It’s an Employee Problem

June 15, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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We’re human and we all make mistakes. They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link and when it comes to cybersecurity, the weakest link is often the people in the organization. Did you know that 95% of data breaches are caused by employee mistakes? In today’s fast-paced work environments, employees let […]

Filed Under: Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business Tagged With: cybersecurity, cybersecurity best practices, cybersecurity protection, dos and don’ts of cybersecurity, human firewall, small business cybersecurity

Creating an Effective Sales Process for Your Small Business

June 7, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Developing a sales process is a simple thing that you can do that provides countless benefits for your small business. A sales process includes a series of steps that you repeat whenever you’re closing a deal or turning a potential lead into a buying customer. Another term for it is a sales cycle. Creating a […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: creating a sales process, good sales cadence, growing your business, prospective customers, sales activities

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

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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

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