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Time to prepare for the biggest shopping season of the year!
You don't have to be in retail to get your company and your clients engaged in holiday shopping, giving and sales. Here are the upcoming holiday shopping days you should be considering creating a plan for: Black Friday - Friday, November 23rd - ...
4 Free Tools to Help You Write Better Copy
Whether you are writing a blog, an email, or even just a subject line, your copy needs to make an impact, be free of spelling and grammatical errors and elicit some sense of emotion from your readers. If you use these tools, I'm going to bet you'll never...
5 Expert Tips to Get More Engagement on Facebook
It’s not getting any easier to get more reach and engagement on Facebook! And as a business owner wanting desperately to reach your ideal customers in this platform, you’re probably feeling like a lot of others, FRUSTRATED! But don’t lose hope because this is still an...
How to Leave a Google Review
As I’m sure you know, Google reviews are a very important part of any business’s digital marketing plan. Consumers rely on those reviews as a basis for determining the trustworthiness and expected experience with a given business or product. Study after study has...
How to install a Facebook Messenger Chatbot to your website
Facebook Messenger Bots are kind of a big deal! I think Facebook Messenger and the creation of Messenger Bots is one of the biggest deals of 2018! The power of this platform is intense and is only going to get better. Think about this…how many of you have...
How to Listen to Amazon Flash Briefings on your Phone
One of my absolute favorite new technologies is my Amazon Echo. I have 3 Echo Dots – one on my desk (being replaced my an Amazon Echo Spot that has video later on today,) one next to my bed and one next to the couch. This technology is absolutely amazing and I’m...
5 Apps that will Make your Social Media Content POP
With all the changes (aka challenges) happening in social media, it’s increasingly important that you are creating content that literally STOPS your desired audience in their tracks when scrolling through their news feed. Making sure you are sharing quality images...
Secure your website now before Google shames you
I can’t imagine you don’t know already know but I’ll say it anyway…Google is both the leader in the search engine market and the browser market. As such, Google has the power to greatly affect change in the way you do business on the web. Coming this July Google will...
My 5 Favorite New Facebook Features for Business
By now you’ve probably heard the news that Facebook is making it even more difficult for businesses, brands and media to market their businesses. They are back to focusing more on interpersonal relationships between family and friends and are going to give very little...
Here’s What You Need to Know to Start Creating Instagram Stories
I’m so glad you are reading this blog!! That means you are ready to claim your space in Instagram, build your audience and start creating new relationships that will ultimately grow your brand’s visibility and your bottom line! Of all the social media platforms out...
Our 4 Favorite Takeaways from our Visit to Google
Our Think Big Go Local team was so excited to have had the opportunity to visit Google’s Chicago office last week! We spent five hours touring, chatting, having lunch, and learning...and it was AWESOME! When we got on the train to come back home, we did a little...
Facebook Live: 15 ways to rock your next video
Dose of reality right here, experts predict that by 2020 over 70% of ALL online content will be consumed via video. You know what that means? It means you better start creating video content and figure out how to do it well and how to attract and engage an audience....
5 Things You Can Do to Make Your Website More Effective
We work with many small business owners who come to us for help with their websites. Some have very old websites, others have websites they built on their own, and some have professionally-designed websites that look pretty good. Regardless of the state of their...
10 Simple Ways to Attract More People to View your Blog
Writing and publishing your blog takes up a lot of time, brainpower and resources. And without getting your ideal audience to read it, it all feels like - and probably is - a big waste of your time and efforts. So while you’re creating that list...
7 Post-Conference Strategies You Need to Follow
In my last blog I shared my strategies for getting ready to attend an industry conference so you set yourself up to get the most from it. But if you are anything like me, when you get home from a conference your head is swirling with new information. There are so many...
Make Your Next Conference Awesome by Following these Easy Strategies
I absolutely LOVE learning, so going to industry conferences has become one of the best ways for me to stay on top of all the changes and new strategies in social media. It’s also a great break from the office (I always manage to turn it into a little vacation) and...
10 Revitalizing Activities to Conquer Small Business Burnout
When I started recording the video for this blog, I thought I should start it out with a warning that it might be a little out of the box for our typical content - and a little personal. But then I realized that what I love the most about my...
Top 10 Reasons Every Small Business Owner Should Hire a Business Coach
Do you ever just feel stuck in your business? Maybe you know what you need to do next, you just don’t know how to do it? Or maybe you really aren’t sure what you can do to level up your business? I’ve been there too and last year decided to do...
How to Hire a Social Media Manager that doesn’t Suck
I see a bit of a crisis on hand for small business owners/managers that know they need to improve their social media marketing – they need help! And as any smart business owner would do, delegating that responsibility (if you don’t have the time or skill set to do it...