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Tips for Social Media Graphics
Images are a powerful way to catch your audience’s eye and help illustrate your point better than you can with text alone. Social media graphics are an opportunity for small businesses and nonprofits to help tell a story, connect with their audience, and share important information. There are so many options with how you can

Developing Client Personas
Defining your audience is an important part of any small business marketing strategy. Having a clear picture of who you’re trying to reach makes your marketing efforts more effective. Client personas are a great way to stay focused on your audience and help you better visualize and relate to them in all aspects of your

A Simple Approach to Small Business Marketing
When people hear the words marketing strategy, especially at the beginning of a new business venture, they tend to get overwhelmed. You’ve finally put all the pieces in place in your business and know you need to do some marketing, but an entire marketing strategy can sound intimidating. What most people don’t realize is a

Preparing for a Media Interview
Getting on the news (for a positive reason) can be a big opportunity for a small business. Though it is a great opportunity to get your name in front of thousands of people, it’s not something most businesses prepare for in advance. Sometimes you’ll have some advance notice of the interview, but in other cases

Utilizing Your Team Members
As a small business owner, it can be hard to let go and let your team members step in, whether that’s for marketing tasks or something else. We get it — you’ve built your own business from the ground up, and you want to keep making sure everything gets done the “right way.” But at

The Future of AI in Small Businesses
When people say artificial intelligence, it can bring to mind a lot of different things. Maybe the first thing you think of is movies with a futuristic AI theme. Or maybe you think about a news article exploring if AI is going to replace certain jobs. Or, perhaps, you wonder about the future of AI

Platform Spotlight – Instagram
In 2010, the world gained a new social media platform unlike any other at the time: Instagram. The photo-sharing platform quickly gained so much traction that Facebook bought the platform just two years after they launched. Should your organization be on Instagram? How can small businesses and nonprofits best use it to connect with their

The Value of a Style Guide
Style guides are commonly used by the media, academia, and large companies. While somewhat less common for small businesses and nonprofits, they’re a useful tool for organizations of any size! In fact, we think every organization should have at least a basic style guide. While it does take an investment of time to create a

Adjusting Marketing Goals and Tactics
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of creating a communications plan and sticking with that plan to build consistency. But sometimes stuff happens in business, and you need to reassess and adjust your marketing goals (or even your business goals). Let’s look at a few steps to take when you find yourself needing to

Using Podcasts as a Marketing Tool
Podcasts: it seems like everyone has one these days, right? They’re a potentially great way to reach your customers, showcase your expertise, and help people get to know you. For some individuals and companies, being a guest on other podcasts makes more sense than hosting your own. But for others, hosting is the way to

Consistency, Authenticity, and Connection in Marketing
We have all been there – scrolling through online content peacefully and then all of sudden… BAM. We get hit with some random ad promoting a certain service or product. Sometimes it’s personalized and sometimes it’s not. The average person is hit with thousands of ad messages every day, even though they may not realize

Platform Spotlight – Facebook
Whether you love Facebook or hate it, there’s no denying the fact that it’s a popular social media platform. Each day in the United States, an estimated 228.6 million users are active on the platform. Globally, that number reaches into the billions. But just because Facebook has millions of eyes on it every day, is
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