Category: Google My Business

Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success. Podcasts are…

Planning a Black Friday marketing strategy is the key to standing out in a large crowd of advertising. Think about it. Every store, whether brick and mortar or eCommerce, are advertising deals. Customers are actively searching for them. So how do you catch their eye? By being prepared and rolling out some killer tactics. Don’t…

Why is it that it’s easier to write a 1,500-word blog post than to write a one-paragraph email to your customers? I’ll tell you why. With emails, you’re directly addressing your readers, and with short emails, every word is in the spotlight. You’ve got to get it just right. To spare you the struggle, I’ve…

Every business sells something. Every business is unique. And every business wants to put its best foot forward both in the physical world and online. Yes, your social media posts, website content, paid ads, emails should reflect that. But it’s also important to have one central statement that brings everything together. That’s where your business…

The film Lost in Translation is not only a cult favorite from 2003, but it is also a very real experience that retailers want to avoid when communicating with customers at all costs. This is true of in-person interactions but it is also true online, where brands are seeing their eCommerce business grow and where…

If you’re reading this article, you’ve probably heard of a social media dashboard. But you might not be exactly sure what it is, or how it could help you. Well, whether you’re managing one social media account or ten, it can be overwhelming to strategize content, create posts, and react to trends on the fly….

Social media image sizes seem to change constantly. One moment you have the perfect cover page for your account. The next, it’s been resized and looks all pixelated and wrong. It doesn’t help that information about official dimensions and image sizes is harder to find than a civil discussion on politics on Facebook. But, it’s…

If you are not already aware, WordStream has released its 2022 Google Ads & Microsoft Ads Benchmarks for Every Industry and there are many fascinating takeaways from the report. One that I found particularly interesting was that average conversion rate (CVR) has decreased across the board year over year for nearly every industry besides Arts…