Small Business Marketing
COVID-19 has most of us at home and wondering how to stay connected. If your business is essential, or you have online operations, here are ways to help customers keep up their spirits. Let’s show compassion for one another during…
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Don’t Jump Right into Buying Ads! When a small business decides that it’s time to run a marketing campaign, they often want to get started showing ads right away. It could be that there’s an important date or purchasing season…
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How to Create Content When Your Small Business Isn’t Outlandishly Exciting For some small businesses, marketing content efforts are easy. When you sell something customers dream about, like clothing or food, creating content around your products and services is naturally…
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Investing in billboard advertising requires significant budget. Here’s one estimate of what a billboard may cost small businesses: The cost of billboard advertising depends on format, circulation, demographics, and impressions. Physical billboard costs average $250 per month in rural areas,…
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If Your Small Business Sells to Women, Parents, Millennials or International Citizens, Pinterest May Be a Marketing Win Pinterest doesn’t get a lot of attention from marketing experts these days. This low-competition environment could be a solid small business marketing…
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Small Business Websites Powered by WordPress are a Hacker’s Biggest Target WordPress is a hugely popular platform for small business websites– it’s flexible, customizable and easy to learn. WordPress claims to “power 35% of the Internet.” The platform is also…
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A sample size of one isn’t data, but I can’t be the only tech-savvy person frustrated by the number of apps that are replacing old-fashioned customer loyalty programs. When Box Tops for Education switched from clipping boxes to scanning receipts…
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From Products, to Local Services to Books, Never Underestimate the Power of 5-Star Reviews to Boost Sales In the hustle of day-to-day operations and marketing, it can be easy to lose sight of encouraging online reviews from your customers. But…
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Beginning in November 2019, Amazon advertisers gained a handy new tool for their ad campaigns. Customer “Search Terms” show exactly what customers searched for before clicking on your ad. First, Understand How Ad Keywords Work When you create a list…
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Before Christmas, a marketing email from Scentmatchers caught my eye. I posted about it in “Going Out of Business Sale: Email Marketing Edition.” In an attempt to inspire FOMO (fear of missing out) in customers, the email includes lines like, “Keep…
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