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...
Seasonal Storytelling: Spring [Infographic]

Seasonal Storytelling: Spring [Infographic]

Welcome to spring! Now is the perfect time to kickstart your seasonal storytelling with fresh new phrases and words that trigger all five senses for your readers. Who doesn’t enjoy reading a story about a bakery when the aroma of the warm, yeasty loaves lifts...
6 Twitter Tips for Small Business Storytelling

6 Twitter Tips for Small Business Storytelling

Want to get better at using Twitter for your small business storytelling? Who doesn’t? It’s a terrific search engine that lets you join other people’s conversations or start your own simply by using hashtags. Twitter does one thing really well...
Small Business Marketing:   Website + Email = Success

Small Business Marketing:
Website + Email = Success

In a survey last month, over 1000 small business owners where asked what they would focus their marketing efforts on this year – and over 50% said their website would be the main marketing channel for 2016. It seems like we’ve been talking about this for a while, so...
Storytelling for Quality in the Age of Impatience

Storytelling for Quality in the Age of Impatience

We live in the Age of Impatience – where everything must be produced, delivered and consumed not just yesterday but the day before yesterday. We expect one click to enroll or submit or download products into our daily lives and we barely tolerate the time it...
I Hate Selling. Wait. No I Don’t.

I Hate Selling. Wait. No I Don’t.

I hate Selling. Wait. No I don’t. Have you heard people say “I’m just not a sales person”? Have you said it yourself? The thought behind that is usually “I don’t want to be a stereotypical version of a pushy used car salesman” or “Remember the ad sales guy Herb from...