Do Cold Email and Cold Calling Work

Do Cold Email and Cold Calling Work? No. Here’s Why.

Do Cold-Calling and Cold-Email Work? Absolutely Not.  Never trust someone’s marketing system if they aren’t using it themselves.  Every day I get emails from people who want to sell me some marketing system, or funnel, or software, so they send me a cold email.  That’s no exaggeration. I have 103 cold emails sitting in my spam folder and that’s just …

Read More

voice search optimization for small business

Voice Search Optimization for Small Businesses

Voice Search Optimization for Small Business Not so many years ago, the idea of talking to our phones to search for things online or to know the weather forecast was science fiction, but now it is our reality. The staggering improvements in voice search technology and its increasing popularity have led to the surge of Voice Search Optimization (VSO) and …

Read More

influencer marketing

Influencer Marketing: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Influencer Marketing: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Influencer marketing has experienced explosive growth during the last five years. It peaked during the Pandemic, but it’s still going strong. So much so that experts project marketers worldwide will spend a whopping $4.5 billion in 2023 on hiring influencers to promote and endorse their products.  In a world dominated by …

Read More

marketing metrics

3 Marketing Metrics Small Businesses Should be Tracking

3 Marketing Metrics Small Businesses Should Be Tracking What is your reaction when I say the word “metrics?” Do your eyes glaze over? Do you feel uneasy? Do you sit up a little straighter in your chair, excited to sharpen your pencil and get down to work? If you fall into the third category, you have my utmost respect, and …

Read More

digital transformation - pink retro typewriter

3 Solutions for Companies Struggling with Digital Transformation

3 Solutions for Companies Struggling with Digital Transformation I joke sometimes that I wanted to be my own boss but ended up with Google as my boss. An enormous part of generating new leads for your business happens online. If the internet is the ocean, Google is the boat, the fishing line and increasingly, the fish. However, while we’re all …

Read More

branded promotional items

25 Fresh Branded Swag Ideas Your Audience Will Love

25 Fresh Branded Swag Ideas Your Audience Will Love Branded promotional items are a great way to build brand awareness and loyalty. The challenge for businesses is to create swag that people will actually use and value, rather than giving it to their kid or stashing it in the junk drawer. To achieve this, swag needs to meet three criteria: …

Read More

my new ivory paper company planner, personal brand vs. business brand

Personal Brand vs. Business Brand

Personal Brand vs. Business Brand We’re talking personal brand vs. business brand this week, and I’ve got a free brand planning tool for you below, so keep reading to get the download link. Why Does Personal Brand Matter? People want to feel like others “get” them. If you’re a small business owner, this means you will have an easier time …

Read More

Small business branding

Is Small Business Branding a Waste of Time?

Is Small Business Branding a Waste of Time? Often, owners approach small business marketing backwards. We consider a tactic, say Instagram, paid ads, or a webinar. We decide whether we want to use that tactic by figuring out how much it would cost to implement, how much time it would take and whether we feel like doing it. Almost every …

Read More