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5 Tips for Making Your Social Media Stand Out from Your Competitors
News flash: your social media presence doesn’t need to be overly flashy to be effective. In fact, simple and conservative is often the way to go! Here are five surprising tips to help you make your social media stand out from your competitors. 1) Clear branding You NEED to establish the foundation of your brand…
Read MoreStop Hating Marketing
It’s become increasingly difficult to stand out in a noisy and crowded marketplace, which makes it easy for a small business to feel like they can’t compete with the big guys when it comes to getting new customers. Here’s the secret: customers buy products from the company they can understand, not the company with the…
Read MoreThe Lazy Entrepreneur’s Guide to Sales
Most people hate selling. In fact, they hate it so much that they don’t do it, even if they think they are doing it on a regular basis. The truth is, selling is actually pretty simple. If you want to increase sales in your business, you’ve got to ask people for the sale. When you’re…
Read MoreHow to Create a Social Media Content Calendar
Social media management can be daunting and overwhelming. If you’ve ever wished someone would just tell you what to do, you’ve come to the right place. At DQB Strategies, we’re here to help you with your social media, whether you want us to do it for you or you just need a little help along…
Read MoreHow to Set Yourself up for Social Media Success
If you’re like most of our clients, you know you need social media for your business but you aren’t sure where to start or what to do. Social media is a powerful (and overwhelming!) tool to help businesses grow. A well-run social media plan can be an effective way to connect with new customers, build…
Read MoreHow to Get Started With Social Media
You’ve got your own social media accounts and have posted a few times, but when you think about sitting down to do social media for your business, you break out in a cold sweat. Suddenly there seem to be more pressing tasks than social media, so you flee the room in search of something to…
Read More7 Elements Your Email Marketing Must Include
Picture this: You sit down to create an email to send out to your customers and realize your keyboard is sticky, so you get up to clean it. You sit down again, look at that flashing cursor and remember you haven’t responded to a text message, so you take care of that. You refocus again…
Read MoreEmail Marketing Tips
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed about how to get started with email marketing for your business. Follow these simple tips to kickstart your email marketing. 1. Build your list. The first step to any email marketing campaign is building your list. This can be done through lead capture forms on your website, sign-up incentives like…
Read MoreThe 5-Step Marketing Plan That Works
Most people waste a ton of money on marketing. This five-step marketing plan will help you survive the next couple of years and doesn’t involve spending thousands of dollars on advertising and marketing. Yep, you read that right. Marketing doesn’t have to be crazy expensive. Create a Clear Message Many businesses actually confuse people with…
Read MoreDon’t Play Hide and Seek With Your Customers
My four-year-old is learning how to play hide and seek. He’s in the beginning stages where he hides in the same spot we just hid in, and he giggles the whole time he’s hiding. We’ll count and start our search to find him with a “Ready or not, here I come”. This usually makes him…
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