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March 18, 2016 by Susan Young Leave a Comment

Help Your Business Stand Out from the Competition

Standing out from competitors - marketing your small business

The famous quote from children’s author Dr. Seuss tells us that, “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” The same is true of your business. But are you making your uniqueness stand out from the competition, or are you blending in with the others? If you make the mistake of offering the same service, using the same language, and advertising … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketing, Marketing Message, Marketing Strategy Tagged With: competition, differentiation, Marketing, small business, USP

February 17, 2016 by Susan Young Leave a Comment

Blogging: the Key to New Customer Acquisition

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For business owners trying to win at the search engine optimization (SEO) game, there’s an overlooked technique that actually works better in the long run, and costs a fraction of the price of Google keyword advertising: blogging for business. This tip will help you discover the reason why your current website isn’t ranking well on Google, and show you how this technique costs much less, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging, Content Marketing, Marketing Strategy, sales, Search Engine Optimization, Writing Tagged With: blogging, blogging for business, business blogging, content marketing, website marketing, websites

January 30, 2016 by Susan Young Leave a Comment

The Secret Approach for Marketing Success

The Secret to Marketing Success? It's Time.

For business owners looking to make a quick profit off of a shotgun marketing approach, I have three words for you: It takes time. No matter what kind of advertising or marketing or communications you do to promote your business, if you don’t put enough time into testing your chosen tactic, you won’t see the success you desire. Let’s take the case of print advertising, such as advertising in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, sales Tagged With: advertising, search engine optimization, Secret to Marketing Success, social media marketing

November 10, 2015 by Susan Young

10 Steps to Better Business Writing

When I read most of the small business copy these days, frankly I'm a little bored. It's the same, product-focused, third-person language that I've read for years in advertisements, web copy, print brochures and more. As a business with a unique product or service to sell, how can you spice up your writing to help you stand out against the herd of ho-hum marketing writing? Here are 10 ways to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Content Marketing, Marketing Tagged With: best marketing copy, business writing, marketing writing, small business copy

October 20, 2015 by Susan Young

Business, Marketing and the Lemonade Stand

Can a lemonade stand teach us about marketing our business?

My daughter, Elaina, definitely has the entrepreneurial spirit. When the weather gets warm, she can’t wait to get outside and sell lemonade or candy to the neighbors. Her Daisy troop participated in the National Lemonade Day in May, a free, community-wide initiative powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, and locally here in Indianapolis by entrepreneur Scott Jones (Indianapolis.lemonadeday.org).  I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding, Marketing, sales Tagged With: advertising budget, Indianapolis marketing, lemonade day, lemonade day indianapolis, marketing your business

October 11, 2015 by Susan Young

Marketing Strategy – Start with the End in Mind

When deciding how to create and spend your marketing budget, it makes sense to take a step back and evaluate your current business, your goals and customers.  Here are some questions to ask yourself as you look back on your previous year in business: How did your business perform overall last year? Did we attract new customers? If so, from where? Did we retain or sell to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding, Marketing, sales Tagged With: advertising budget, email marketing, marketing planning, marketing strategy, marketing your business

October 8, 2015 by Susan Young

5 Marketing Tips You can Start Using NOW

If you are hesitant to begin marketing your business or aren’t sure you’ll have the time, you’re not alone. As a business owner myself, I know how hard it is to find time to network, plan a strategy, handle the sales and the customer service, along with all of the other hats required of a small business owner. But I’d like to give you some quick and easy marketing tips that you can begin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketing Strategy, sales, Social Media Marketing Tagged With: company invoices, email marketing, marketing tips, marketing tracking, point of sale, social media indianapolis

October 7, 2015 by Susan Young

What is Content Marketing?

You may have heard the term ‘content marketing’ floating around lately, but how many of you know what it means, and how to apply this strategy to your business’ marketing plan? First of all, to understand content marketing as a strategy, we need to define content marketing. All forms of advertising have content, of course. Types of marketing content include: Headlines Taglines or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Blogging, Content Marketing, Website Development Tagged With: blogging, content marketing plan, content marketing strategy, search engine optimization, social media, what is content marketing

October 6, 2015 by Susan Young

5 Tips to Boost your Website Traffic

Often, my Indianapolis small business customers come to me asking how they can increase web traffic for their company’s website. Are you a small business trying to get noticed online in a sea of other competitors? Perhaps you don’t want to spend a fortune, or to do a complete overhaul of your existing website. In these cases, here are five tips you can try which may give your website an instant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging, Email Marketing, Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, Website Development Tagged With: increase web traffic, refresh your website content, SEO keyword research, social media marketing

September 3, 2015 by Susan Young

Yard Signs: Not just for Realtors and Politicians Anymore

In the Indianapolis area, there is something I’ve noticed a lot more of in the last few years: yard signs. Formerly, when you would see a sign on the lawn of your neighbor’s house, it was announcing the house was for sale, the location of an upcoming garage sale, or to show support of a particular local or national political candidate. There are many advantages of using yard signs, including: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Public Relations Tagged With: advertising with signs, Marketing home remodeling, marketing home services industry, outdoor advertising, outdoor signs, real estate signs, service business signs, yard sign advertising, yard signs

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