Masterful Marketing

20 Content Ideas to Help Build Your Email List

Does your website have a signup form that looks like the following?

Do you wonder why no one is signing up for your monthly eNewsletter that you work very hard to produce?

Eliminate Social Media Email Clutter

How to Write Compelling Blog Posts

Now that your content strategy for your small business is in place, it’s time to begin writing that great content to attract attention and develop your expert reputation.

Develop a List of Post Topics

It’s important to have a list of 50 to 100 blog post topics before you start to post. What often happens is that new bloggers get excited about blogging, write a few posts and then stop. They’ve run out of ideas.

Planning Your Road to Success

One of the things I do for my clients is simplify marketing so it eliminates confusion and enables the business owner to focus on what is important. But there is always a part of marketing that stresses many small business owners – i.e. determining their mission, goals, strategies and tactics. These concepts are important in order to develop a plan that focuses you on what is important to help you succeed.

Passion Simplifies the Sales Process

I’ve never been a great sales person. Heck I don’t even think I’m a good sales person. As a matter of fact, I hate selling. However this weekend at my golf club, people thought I was a great sales person (which I found rather humorous) because I was easily selling raffle tickets to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Marketing is About Education, Not Sales

Don’t Wait Until it’s Too Late – Protect Your Online Assets

For many of us in service based businesses, our knowledge is our main asset. When we write about what we know, in our blog, in an ebook or out on the social web, we share that asset with many people to help them out and to attract them to our businesses. In addition, many of us have spent a lot of time and money on our Web or blog design, creating a brand identity that projects how we want people to perceive us and our businesses. So when I read about how someone’s blog or website was hacked and they lost their content, their brand and are trying to recover these assets, it’s time for a reminder post on WordPress security to protect your online assets. It’s something we all can do ourselves. We just need to remember!

Marketing – Always On 24×7

As many of us get into summer activities, one thing we need to remember is that as a small business owner, we are always creating an impression of our business, affecting our brand and reputation. Whether we are out to dinner with family and friends, socializing at the golf course, tennis courts or beaches, how we behave at all events, whether fun or business oriented, is something we need to recognize as part of our marketing activities.

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Content Strategy: Helping Your Small Business Blog Stay Visible

A consistent flow of content is critical to developing a community of followers that will support your brand and most likely become a customer or client. But one of the most common challenges small business owners face is how to create that compelling and relevant content on a regular basis in order to remain visible to their ideal clients.

Power of Three in Marketing

I was asked an interesting question during one of my coaching sessions:

As a small business owner, if you were to focus on only three marketing activities over the next six months, what would they be?

That made me stop and think for a bit. Putting the gears in motion and applying the power of threes, I realized that this question and its answer would help other small business owners focus on what is important for them to be found. My recommendation for three marketing activities include:

Social Media Revolution – Its Affect On Small Businesses

Erik Qualman, author of the book Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business, created a video called the Social Media Revolution in August 2009. He updated the video less than a year later to demonstrate how quickly the social media landscape moves. Some of the statistics are definitely eye-opening as well as exciting for small business owners. You can read the entire list and credits on Erik’s post Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh).

Showcase Your Skills with Social Media

The competitive environment surrounding us encourages those who wish to succeed to learn how to market themselves effectively. Whether you are applying for a job, trying to win a client, or in some cases, applying to a university, using social media to present the real you can make be difference between you getting noticed or being overlooked.