Endeavoring to market local brick-and-mortar businesses organically (non-paid) is actually fairly simple when you take advantage of these 3 free tools: Instagram, Google Business Profile, and Facebook. How one local business managed to increase Facebook reach when others were losing theirs… You may have read — and I’ve written on the subject — that due […]
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If I had a dime for each time someone said to me, “There’s not enough time in the day to run my business never mind doing social media!”, I’d be rich. Yes, Social Media is free to use, but it takes Sweat Equity. Here’s a how to manage your day effectively to be able to prioritize, actually get stuff done and not drive yourself insane!
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Unlike for-profit businesses that usually have one main target market, maybe two, nonprofits have at least 5 distinct ones. These 5 target market personas need to be clearly identified and embraced. Ideally, you need to get to know them — intimately. You also need to find them in the social media networks to be able
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TikTok is the favorite app for 13-15-year-olds and was the most downloaded app in 2022. It’s extremely tempting if you are trying to reach the younger generations. Unfortunately, it’s bad news and dangerous. Here is why, along with some data. Plus, President Biden recently signed a bill to ban TikTok if it’s not sold to
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One thing small business owners need to understand is that everything they do online: website, social media pages, Google listings, everything is how people see your business. I see so many business owners make the same Branding Mistakes over and over again. It’s like they don’t care. It’s Your and Your Company’s Image that is
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Usually, when someone asks me if they should do paid advertising or otherwise spend money marketing, I say — do everything I teach you for 3 months organically (non-paid). Then look at your analytics and see what’s working and not working. At that point, you’ll know which networks are… Then it makes sense to spend
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Marketing on Instagram is a MUST for any B2C (Business-to-Consumer) business. Whether you’re ecommerce, brick-and-mortar, or home-based, Instagram offers you unique opportunities to promote your business organically – without paying –- to a large audience. Instagram is a great social media network, especially for B2C businesses. Though I’ve seen some B2B companies on there, it’s
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Love it or hate it, Facebook is still the number 1 social media network in the world! Why is Facebook so Difficult? Facebook, because of its algorithm change in March of 2018, made it increasingly difficult to grow a following organically — that is, without paying for advertising to get extra reach and clicks to
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No matter what you think about social media, it’s still a powerful, low-to-no-cost marketing tool available to every small business owner. The challenge is knowing how to do social media marketing effectively. This video covers the basics of the social media networks, and how they work together with your website, content marketing, and search engine
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Technology – you can’t live without it and sometimes it just doesn’t work like it should. We’ve all had computers crash and Internet connections die on us. So what do you do when technology doesn’t work right? I taught a client how to share her boss’s blog posts with Sendible and one time she emailed
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