Generate Local Business With Pinterest

Generate Local Business With Pinterest

Pinterest reached 100 million active users last year – and if used thoughtfully – it can help drive local business to your brick-and-mortar location. Highly visual and easy to use, Pinterest is a platform where people go for inspiration, ideas and...
6 Ingredients For Baking Up Local SEO that Works

6 Ingredients For Baking Up Local SEO that Works

When experts talk about SEO it can sound complicated and time-consuming – there are so many things to consider that it’s easy to get frustrated. When confronted with the enormity of discussing numerous ways to reach millions of potential customers across the...
Hostage Email. Stop That! (Rant)

Hostage Email. Stop That! (Rant)

We all get too much email – sometimes we want less. I’ve been continually infuriated by companies (mostly large) that make it “Oh so easy” to subscribe and nearly freaking impossible to UNsubscribe. When I agree to “sign up”...
Get Local – the Pleasures of the Local Gift

Get Local – the Pleasures of the Local Gift

I had the most delightful box of gifts arrive for the holidays – a gift of someone else’s local.  We talk a lot on this blog and in our marketing training about Buying Local and the benefits of Shopping Small Business because of the great stuff – and...
How Jeff Walker is Saving the World

How Jeff Walker is Saving the World

As entrepreneurs we all face similar challenges – sometimes they are from the outside; business roadblocks, customer hurdles, vendor hassles – and sometimes they are internal; the secret nagging fears and doubts that can creep in around the edges from time...
Small Business Saturday – Last Minute Advice

Small Business Saturday – Last Minute Advice

Small Business Saturday is two days away! This is the perfect opportunity for you to show your customers how local businesses and communities thrive because of their patronage. That’s a big deal. So make Small Business Saturday a celebration. Make it about your...