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The Planning Process: Is Your Business Marketing-Ready?
It’s 12:00 AM–you haven’t slept for days. Under your nose is a worn-out legal pad covered in pencil shavings–casualties from the rigorous outlining of your STELLAR business concept. Before you give into instinct and create a WordPress site, or hand over fistfuls of cash for a personalized logo, ask yourself these three questions: Everyone who…
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How to Hire A Digital Marketing Agency or Marketing Consultant
If you’re reading this, you likely have so much work you’re ready to consider outsourcing. Since your business’s inception, you–the small business owner–taught yourself marketing DIY, watched webinars, scoured the internet for definitions, and read all you could about the field. All on your own, you took your business from unknown to recognizable among those…
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[VIDEO] Stop Selling, Start Connecting: The Power of Empathy in Marketing
Are you tired of pushy marketing tactics that leave a bad taste in your mouth? In this video, we dive into the power of empathetic marketing—an approach for small business owners to earn the trust of their audiences. I share personal experiences of bad marketing, define empathetic marketing, and demonstrate from personal experience how to…
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Digital Marketing Jargon: A Glossary of Terms
Terms to know before hiring a digital marketing agency. A/B Test – A research tactic to test two versions of something (i.e. copy, design, asset, theory, or process) by examining the performance of each to optimize the asset moving forward. It’s ideal to test only one element at a time to effectively test a hypothesis.…