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Brace Yourselves, the Holidays are Coming

10/13/201508/14/2016Blog, Email Marketing, management, marketing, retail, small business, Social Mediabusiness, Christmas, contacts, customers, Email marketing, holidays, Sales, schedule, Shopping, Small business, Social Media, strategies, Tools

Fall and Winter Seasons bring Labor Day, Yom Kippur, Columbus Day, Halloween, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and more… so what? It’s not too soon to talk about the holidays and we’re talking about the power of Holidays as Read More

Your Small Business Needs Social Media

09/19/201508/21/2016Blog, marketing, small business, Social Mediablogging, business, competition, connection, customers, leads, LinkedIn, network, posting, prospects, SMB, Social Media, tweet, tweetchat, twitter

To Tweet or Not to Tweet? Is that still the Question? If you are still hesitant to utilize Social Media to grow your small business, consider social media your avenue to the circle of prospects who either have Read More

Check your Website for Mobile Use

08/23/201502/25/2017Blog, small business, Social Media, Websitemobile, mobile-friendly, Small business, small business owners, Social Media, success, Website

When is the last time you visited your own website? It’s a little scary how often I review a prospect’s website and it could virtually have spider webs on it for its lack of maintenance… Consider your Read More

Boomer SMB Owners…Are you The Flintstones or The Jetsons?

07/25/201511/24/2015Blog, humor, management, marketing, retail, small businessbusiness, Education and Training, Small business, technology

In my small business, I run across a lot of SMB boomers who simply aren’t, shall we say kindly, “tech-savvy”? As a mostly tech-savvy boomer myself, I want to sometimes scream: “What the heck is Read More

Bad Emails Are Worse Than None At All

04/27/201511/24/2015Blog, Email Marketing, marketing, retail, small businessbusiness, Communications, connection, Constant Contact, customer loyalty, Education and Training, entrepreneur, Photobucket, retail, Small business, success, technology

I run across some bad emails in my inbox, but I have to give people an A for effort, so I have avoided using SMB emails as examples of WHAT NOT TO DO. In this case, the example below was so bad it borders on the “I really don’t care” level, so I decided they wouldn’t really care if …

Will Followers Be Content with Content in 2015?

12/16/201411/24/2015Blog, marketing, small businessblog, business, Content, Google, Marketing, Social Media

Content productivity obsession. This is what we have taught ourselves must be done for successful marketing of our businesses. But is it really true?