Celebrate Your Small Business’s Anniversary in Style!
Every small business owner has heard the stats. Twenty percent of small businesses fail within their first year. The five-year survival rate is a coin flip at best. Those...... More »
Generation Z: Marketing Your Small Business to the New Youths
Age might be nothing but a number, but that number can make a big difference when it comes to how you market your small business to different generational segments....... More »
Marketing Your Small Business to the “Me” Generation: Millennials
Millennials — the generation born between 1980 and 2000 — often get a bad rap. The media portrays them as a self-centered, entitled bunch, obsessed with whatever trend comes...... More »
Generation X: Marketing to the “Middle Child”
Generation X (consisting of people born between 1965 and 1980) is sandwiched smack dab between the baby boomers and the millennials. With just under 66 million people falling into...... More »
Baby Boomers: A Boon for Your Small Business
Baby boomers still have the edge when it comes to population. (But the millennials, presumably fueled by avocado toast, are hot on their heels.) With 74 million Americans aged...... More »
How Social Media Analytics Can Perk Up Your Small Business Posts
You probably think you have your social media strategy and process down pat. You create cleverly crafted tweets, you share thoughtful, non-salesy posts, and you aren’t above a bit...... More »
Online Learning Websites: An Outside-the-Box Marketing Strategy for Your Small Business
We learn something new every day. A stat comes over the evening news that makes us go “hmm,” a colleague shows us a shortcut in Excel or we absorb...... More »
5 Great Small Business Social Media Marketing Tips for 5 Premier Platforms
Social media has come a long way in a short time. Six Degrees, the very first (and very defunct) social media platform, emerged in 1997 and shut down a...... More »
How to Stretch Your Small Business Content ROI
As a small business owner, saying that you’re “busy” is the understatement of the century. There are approximately 112 things to do every day — some of them more...... More »
To Pod or Not to Pod: An Important Question for Your Small Business
The humble podcast (then known as “audioblogging”) stumbled upon the scene in the late 1980s, long before the first smartphone was anything but a sci-fi tinged dream. The concept...... More »