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A Behind the Scenes Look Into Our Notion Content Management System

When it comes to managing your media (aka your “content”), having a CMS (content management system) is non-negotiable. As your brand grows and your business expands, there comes a time that we will need to up-level our content management system. Things just become far too complex to NOT have a system in place. In this article I am going to breakdown our Notion Content Management System in hopes that this may help you get some ideas for how you can take your content management to the next level. Let's go!

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How To Run Your Marketing Department As One Person

As small business owners, many of us find ourselves wearing multiple hats, including that of a marketing team of one. Personally, I have spent countless years as a solopreneur, single handedly taking care of all aspects of my business. 

I get how challenging it can be to not only keep up with all the things that go into running a business, but also to execute all the different tasks required for it to thrive...It's A LOT! Within this article I am going to share with you my best practices for running a thriving marketing department as a small business owner doing it all on your own.

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How To Track Your Analytics As a Small Business - The Metrics That Really Matter

When it comes to being strategic, thinking long term, or trying to build a sustainable organization…if data analysis is missing it can cause a whole series of issues such as slow to no growth, inconsistent growth, and more stress put on your business than is needed. Data analysis helps you try to predict and change the future by studying the past.

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How to Plan a Marketing Campaign: A Comprehensive Guide with Examples

A well-written marketing campaign is a key part of any business's success. It can help you to attract new clients, retain old ones and give your brand an identity that people love. It can feel overwhelming trying to developing a marketing campaign if you are a small business owner that doesn’t specialize in marketing. That’s why we’ve created this comprehensive guide that will simplify how you set up your marketing campaigns.

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How To Grow Your Small Business On Pinterest in 2023

Pinterest is a visually-driven platform. For anyone who enjoys creating visually exciting content, is into design and aesthetic, or just is already an active Pinterest user, it is definitely worth it to consider using the platform for your business (so long as your target audience is also actively hanging out there!).

Learn my top tips for using Pinterest to grow your small business. There is a ton of potential in Pinterest, but there is also a lot of stuff that goes into seeing success in growing your business there. Let's get into it.

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A Simple Formula To Help You Plan Your Marketing Campaigns Effectively

Let's face it, planning marketing campaigns can be tough. There are so many variables at play that it can easily wind up feeling like rocket science. You have to consider the goals you want to achieve, the type of campaign that should be run to meet those goals (awareness vs. action – and a thousand different types of action campaigns), audience demographics, the message of your campaign, the channels you're going to use to deliver it, how your going to test it and optimize it…and this is all before you even start considering what media you want to use or even what your messages might be! It's easy to get overwhelmed. A good way to help simplify this process is to create a template like the one included in this article. One of the most important things to when preparing to set up a marketing campaign is to thoroughly plan it out! Let’s break down how to do so in an effective way.

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Our 6 Top Tips To Help You Generate Leads In Your Small Business

Small businesses typically have limited budgets, support, and time. Lead generation is one of the most important aspects of any small business and yet it is also one of the most challenging aspects to master consistently. It’s not surprising that most small businesses feel that struggles with lead generation and attracting clients in a reliable way is their biggest risk to their business. Within this article we will breakdown our 8 top tips to help you improve your lead generation for your small business. Lead generation has been an area of my own business that I haven’t had to worry about for many years. I have been solidly booked with clients, and at many times waitlisted out for months in advance, to the extent that I have not had to actively promote my offers to the public. This is possible for you, too. Let’s discuss what I’ve found to be tried and true methods for generating leads!

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Creative Marketing Tips For Navigating The Holidays As a Small Business

How you prepare for the holidays as a small business determines not just how you are likely to close out the year, but it also speaks volumes as to what matters to you as a business owner. The holiday season is a time of year where we can practice values-driven marketing and encourage conscious consumerism. As a business owner who has navigated many holiday seasons, I have learned a thing or two about different ways we can approach the most consumerism-driven time of the year. This article breaks down different content ideas to help you creatively stand out while upholding your business values and creative ideas for how to market your business as well as your beliefs during Black Friday week. Let’s dive in!

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Learn How To Be More Consistent At Marketing Your Business

More likely than not, we already understand the importance consistency plays in helping us to achieve results we desire. The concept of consistency is not a foreign one, especially in business. Consistency is one of the most important skills we can exercise as solopreneurs and brands working to grow our presence online. Yet, with the word consistency tossed around all too often, when it comes to being consistent at marketing your business, we want to understand what that actually means and how we can do so in a way that is sustainable for us. Within this article, we breakdown why consistency matters in relation to your marketing, how to redefine consistency for yourself, and ways that you can begin to become more consistent at marketing your business online. Let’s dive in!

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How To Practice Personalized Marketing Without Exploiting Your Audience

Personalized marketing has many benefits, from helping you to better understand and connect with your desired audience to tailoring your marketing to create unforgettable experiences. It comes as no surprise that personalized marketing can help increase the quality of leads that come into your business as well as help you build stronger brand loyalty. Yet, if done wrong, the data and insights you gain about your audience could quickly cause you to exploit the very people you want to serve and help. Within this article, I will be discussing what personalized marketing is and how we can practice it without exploiting our audiences in the process.

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How to Choose the Right Technology to Manage Your Small Business

Building a tech stack for your small business will not only help you better manage your organization, it will also help you streamline your processes and keep your business functioning in a balanced and sustainable way. Your tech stack can also help you manage team members as well as clients, supporting you in creating a stellar experience for those who are involved in your business. There are countless tech options out there for small business owners to choose from, which can be overwhelming. Small business owners can wind up choosing the wrong tech for the type of business they are running, choose tech that they don’t even need, or choose tech that is too complicated for them to actually use consistently. Within this article, I am going to share with you my top recommendations for technology to use to manage your small business. As well, I will share with you some of the best options out there and ways you can choose the right technology for your business. Let’s dive in!

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How to run a community based online program

Impact-focused businesses that are prioritizing community connection are beginning to see the importance of instilling a holistic approach to working with other people. Social ecology can help conscious business owners to instill styles of service that expand beyond traditional structures of working in community and with other people. A community based program can help to encourage the development of collaborative relationships between facilitators and participants, creating a more immersive and valuable experience for everyone involved. Within this article we discuss what community based programs are and how we can incorporate them into our service based businesses as a way to make more positive impact on people’s lives.

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