Whether you are the owner of a small service business or the manager of a multi-location dealership, understanding your target audience plays a critical role in your marketing and sales tactics. From understanding how your audience researches products and services to what values push them to make their final purchasing ...

If you own or operate a service-based company, your business model likely involves a large amount of traveling to a customer’s home or business throughout a specified area to offer your services. Rather than operating as a traditional brick-and-mortar shop, a service-based business reaches customers across numerous miles, requiring different ...

Reaching your customers is all about targeting them at the right moment and with the right communication strategy. In the past, many service businesses relied heavily on mailers, flyers, and paper ads to reach their customers with critical information. Most communication was handled via the phone or in person. As ...

Unfortunately, no matter how well you run your small business, no matter how outstanding of a job your staff does at providing quality customer service, the day will likely come when you receive a negative online review. While it is tempting to ignore these reviews, particularly if they are infrequent ...

Local marketing campaigns are critical to long-term growth and continued profits for those running a small business. These campaigns allow companies to target key local audience segments, promoting ongoing growth and customer retention. This is particularly important for those operating a business in the service sector where customers are searching ...

Scroll through your newsfeed, visit a company website or even browse product recommendations on Amazon, and you’ll be greeted by the commonly used content form of video. Videos have become integral to successful marketing strategies with their ability to captivate, tell a story, and lead customers to make purchasing decisions. ...

Perform a quick search of a company or brand you know, and an interesting phenomenon will occur. You’ll most likely see that company’s name show up in two places. Hopefully, they will show up organically, reflecting the optimization of their online presence to showcase their business when searched. But secondly, ...

When you operate a local business, you constantly compete with other local companies for customers. While retaining customers and earning the business of new clients involves numerous efforts, a huge factor in whether or not your business will remain successful is determined by how well you use the power of ...

Over the course of the past two years, there has been a strong shift in how consumers interact with businesses. Increasingly, consumers have become adept at moving between both digital and physical channels to interact with businesses. This has led to the rise in the omnichannel experience — an experience ...