Having an outdated website can hurt your business, both in terms of user experience and online visibility. Regular updates, done every one to three years, to your website will not only improve the overall look and functionality of your site, but also drive more traffic and engagement from your target audience. Here are some of the ways an outdated website can harm your business when someone clicks over from social media: Poor User Experience: A website that is outdated or difficult to navigate can result in a poor user experience, causing visitors to quickly leave your site. This can lead to high bounce rates, which can negatively impact your search engine rankings and overall online visibility. Damaged Reputation: An outdated website can harm your business’s reputation by giving the impression that you are unprofessional, unreliable, or out of touch with your industry. This can result in a loss of credibility
Read more →One question I am asked frequently is – do I really need to blog? Short answer is as a business owner, blogging can be a powerful tool to help you grow your business and reach new audiences. Here are 5 reasons why you should consider starting a blog and blogging regularly: Blogging improves your SEO: Regularly publishing high-quality content on your blog can help improve your search engine rankings, making it easier for potential customers to find your business. Additionally, you can use keywords in your blog posts to target specific search terms and drive more targeted traffic to your website. Blogging helps you establish thought leadership: By blogging about your industry and sharing your expertise, you can establish yourself as a thought leader in your field. This can help you build trust and credibility with your target audience and differentiate your business from the competition. Blogging provides valuable content
Read more →Are you a small business owner looking to increase your customer base and drive sales? Email marketing may be the solution you’ve been looking for. Here are 5 reasons to use email marketing as part of your overall marketing strategy: Cost-effective: Email marketing can be a very cost-effective way to reach out to customers and potential customers, especially when compared to other marketing channels. It is a relatively cheap and easy way to keep in touch with your audience, and you can reach a large number of people at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing methods. Targeted messaging: With email marketing, you can tailor your messages to specific segments of your audience, based on factors such as their location, interests, and purchase history. This allows you to create highly targeted campaigns that are more likely to be relevant and engaging to your audience. Measurable results: Email
Read more →Are you having difficulty attracting the right prospects for your product or service? It could be because you haven’t really clarified your beliefs. Simon Senek says we need to Start with Why. I agree. 7 years before his book was published I read a book by Debbie Bermont called Outrageous Business Growth, where among other things she laid out a model for identifying your ideal client. I like her approach. The outside ring is the market segment’s demographics and psychographics. You’ve probably already clarified that, right? As you can see, each ring gets smaller as we narrow in on our target. The next ring is about our mission and why for being in business. Our why aligns with the problems our target market is experiencing. So identify the challenges and pain points that your ideal clients have that you solve. Next, we take a look at our values, because our
Read more →ACCOUNT – Step 3 in the Marketing & Mindsets Intentional Planning Process™ We’ll look at the results of the marketing tactics by the month and tweak if necessary. You’ll know the exact ROI on all your marketing activities. Keep in mind that it takes several months for results to be at the level we desire for some tactics; however, we will look at trends and make any changes necessary. Along with the data analysis we look at how the BE-DO-HAVE model has impacted your results. This is where you get to HAVE the energetic reality you desire, along with the physical results you want to achieve. If that’s not happening, we look at both physical and energetic realities. This post concludes our summary of the Marketing & Mindsets Intentional Planning Process™. In the preceding two posts you learned about the first step, Analyze and the second step, Act. Schedule a
Read more →ACT – Step 2 of the Marketing & Mindsets Intentional Planning Process™ The ACT Step of an Intentional Marketing Planning Project Includes: Choosing Your Marketing Tactics There are hundreds of marketing tactics that could be used; together we’ll choose the ones that both resonate with you and will achieve your goals. Review our most popular tactics here. You can also download our Tactics Sheet which lists tactics that came from a brainstorm activity at my last retreat. You can integrate any of these into your intentional marketing plan. Creating Your Marketing Calendar We’ll plot the marketing activities on a calendar that will be reviewed every 90 days. I like to think in terms of themes for each month, that you can use as the basis for your social media and content creation topics. Your social media activities can be included on the same calendar. Implementing the Intentional Marketing Plan As
Read more →ANALYZE – Step 1 of the Marketing & Mindsets Intentional Planning Process™ The ANALYZE step of an Intentional Marketing Planning project can include: Connecting to Your Passion You’ll discover how to connect to the energy of “what brings you joy” so you can BE that way, every time you do any marketing. First you have to know what brings you joy. For many people, it’s been so long since they’ve felt joy in their business, this takes some soul searching. Then we look at what techniques you can use to maintain that joy. Finally, we’ll also look at the marketing tactics that resonate with you. Clarifying Your Ideal Clients We will use several worksheets to carefully define your ideal clients and what makes you attractive to them as well as what specific problems they have that you are uniquely qualified to solve. This is an important step that many people
Read more →We’ve heard the old saying attributed to Benjamin Franklin, “Failing to Plan, is Planning to Fail.” In the past, if someone asked me for a favorite quote, that would be mine. However, I have a new favorite now: “Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.” ~ Mark Schmukler I’ve seen both, strategy without action and tactics without strategy, and he’s right, neither turns out well. To be successful with marketing, we need an integrated plan that starts with strategy and includes the right tactics to implement the strategy. I’ve created the Marketing & Mindsets Intentional Planning Process™ that has three steps to ensure that strategy and tactics are both implemented and work together. Having an intentional focus results in a way of thinking about your business and life that’s committed, purposeful and deliberate. ANALYZE First, we identify our ideal customer, determine the problems we solve for
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