Small Business Marketing
Your Brand Needs a Plan for Generative Engine Optimization with ChatGPT & Google Gemini There’s a new marketing acronym in town, GEO. It stands for Generative Engine Optimization, and it has one customer segment: AI chatbots. It’s the top growth strategy…
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What Makes Consumers Buy Faster & Value Your Brand More? Answer: Price Anchoring These four pricing strategy examples explore one valuable tool in the pricing toolbox: price anchoring. In their book Dollars and Sense, Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler write: When…
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Plus, 5 More Big-Brand Logo Launches Illustrate 2025 Design Trends In early 2025, the public broadly mocked Walmart for its highly-publicized new brand strategy marketing effort. In its PR release for a modest refresh of its brand identity, Walmart gushed: “Walmart…
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Contractors Get Creative as Affluent Households Grow Reluctant to Invest in Big-Ticket Projects For the home services industry, much growth potential comes from affluent households. Growth strategy marketing typically targets these consumers with lifestyle enhancements like a backyard pool oasis,…
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Popular 26-Year-Old Review Platform Has Long Been Resource for Homeowners Along with a new tagline, Your Home for Everything Home, Angie’s List announced its name change to Angi in March 2021. Check out the intro video: What Will Change for…
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Cincinnati-based Busken Bakery was founded during the Great Depression, not an auspicious time to start a new business. In another daring move, each Presidential election, the bakery launches an all-out election season marketing campaign centering around cookies bearing the likeness…
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If you’ve decided to focus on Google Ads over SEO for your small business marketing strategy, that doesn’t mean SEO can’t play an important role. These 3 SEO tips will help your Google Ads: Display more frequently Cost less Rank…
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With New Sales Model and Clever Marketing, Cincinnati Real Estate Firm Seeks to Disrupt How People Buy and Sell Homes Over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed distinctive orange For Sale signs popping up in my neighborhood. Shaped like an…
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Redesigning your small business website is a big project and important for your marketing goals. Before you hire a website designer, make sure you’re satisfied with their answers to these 15 questions: Can you show me examples of websites you’ve…
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The #1 Priority for Redesigning Your Business Website is Hiring the Right Web Design Firm Lately, I’ve managed website redesigns for several clients. Some projects went more smoothly than others, and the major determining success factor was how much consideration…
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