Marketing Basics to promote and market your small business
“Which social network should I use?” “Do I really have to be on Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and YouTube and Google Plus and …” “How do I manage my social media marketing and still run my business?” I hear these questions from clients on almost a daily basis. And trust me, I know how […]
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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is often misunderstood by small business owners, mainly because it’s pretty complicated. While I don’t pretend to be anything like an expert on the subject, I’ll give you a few basics here. What is SEO? It refers to things you do with your website to make it more likely to turn
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At this time of year, many of my customers are too busy just trying to survive until New Year’s to worry about marketing their business. I suspect this is true for many professionals who provide a service to other businesses. If you find your business is slowing down or even drying up for the next
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Blogging and article writing are wonderful marketing tools, particularly for people who are selling their expertise and not a product. It’s a great way to showcase your knowledge. They are also fabulous for SEO (search engine optimization). If you’re blogging regularly, you have new content for Google to index. By automating sharing your posts with
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We’ve all heard the horror stories – kids posting photos on Facebook of themselves drinking, doing drugs and just plain stupid stuff. Then these photos come back to haunt them when they’re looking for work. Now let’s face it, for middle aged business owners, a night of heavy drinking is a second glass of wine
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Is it true that any publicity is good publicity? I’m not sure, but read this case study and tell me what you think. London Ontario is a city of just over 350,000 in South-Western Ontario, about 200 km west of Toronto. Recently a professional baseball team in the Frontier league came to town. The owners
Public Relations Gone Bad: a Case Study of the London Rippers Read More »
One of the advantages of being a solopreneur or small business is you can change direction faster than a large corporation; there are no committees or layers of management to consult. It’s just you making a decision. However, too many small business owners get used to flying by the seat of their pants when it
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5 Things you must do now to get ready for March 30th If you have a Facebook Page (also known as Fan Pages) for your business, you need to know that Facebook is making changes once again. On March 30th all Pages will be automatically converted to the new Timeline format. Many businesses have voluntarily
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How’s your marketing going so far in 2012? If you’re not getting the best results possible, list to this radio interview I did with business coach Yvonne McCoy on her BlogTalkRadio show SOS 4 Your Business where we talk about marketing and creating a marketing plan. Listen to internet radio with SOS 4 Your Business
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Marketing is not always something small business owners embrace. For many it’s a necessary evil … like a root canal. You know you need to do it but you don’t have to like it. There are a number of misconceptions people have about marketing that makes it hard for them to get results. In the
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