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Year one of COVID-19 – How has business and marketing changed?
So COVID-19 happened. We are now in a transition period and this year it will be fascinating to see which trends are here to stay.
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5 signs you might need help with your marketing strategy
You might need help with your marketing strategy if...
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Case study: The Clothes Mine
The Clothes Mine is a Wheatrige-based consignment store. After closing its Golden store, the Clothes Mine wanted to grow its online business
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Five tips to help you reach your goals and stick to your resolutions in marketing
January is a time to make plans and resolutions. That’s the easiest bit. What’s harder is starting and continuing as you mean to go on.
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Building next year's marketing plan - step seven: Measuring what matters
In this final installment of my blog series, I'm going to talk you through measuing and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
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Building next year's marketing plan - step six: Creating content
What we haven’t yet done is actually decided what content we’re going to create. I’m going to go through an example with you.
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Building your 2021 marketing plan - step five: Marketing strategies
To me, working out marketing strategies and campaigns is like solving a puzzle. The puzzle picture at the end is your marketing strategy.
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Building next year's marketing plan - step four: Reviewing your context
Keeping in mind the context is crucial because otherwise you’re just shouting through a megaphone at an audience that isn’t listening.
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Building next year's marketing plan - step three: Setting goals
Setting goals is important because they give you something to aim for and therefore a direction to head in.
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Building next year's marketing plan - step two: Who are you talking to?
Creating your audience personas is part of the foundational work of any business plan, but they need to remain current.
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Building your marketing plan - step one: Remind yourself why
A solid brand strategy is the foundation of everything else you do and is worth revisiting when you're building a marketing plan.
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Building next year's marketing plan
It is time to start planning for next year. Over the next several weeks, I’m going to be taking you through building a marketing plan.
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Upcoming SCORE workshop: How to pivot your marketing
I'm very excited to be holding another marketing strategy workshop, this time with SCORE Colorado.
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Free webinar video: How to pivot your marketing without throwing out your existing strategy
Any fundamental business change has a knock-on effect on how you market yourself. So, how do you flex your marketing and brand strategy?
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Mini-course: How to build an audience persona - aka buyer persona or avatar
A 30 minute course on how to build an audience persona or avatar and why you should take the time to do so.
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The two things you need to create content that connects and converts
Guest blog from Diane Pauley, a brand and content strategist who helps businesses say what they do.
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Free webinar: How to build a marketing plan during COVID-19
I held a free teaching session for Jefferson County Business Resource Center to help small businesses approach marketing planning.
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Why inclusion matters and how to use your marketing to promote it
Inclusion is important in society and firms can be a force for it, if they want to. This blog goes into why it matters and how to foster it.
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How to build local SEO - social media
This blog is intended to help you understand how good social media activity can help improve the visibility of your website - ie rank higher
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What are the most neglected areas in small business marketing?
There isn't one answer to this, as every business is different but there are some typical areas that get overlooked.
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