Social Media for Your Business: The Ten Questions I Get Asked Most Straight answers, from forty years of doing this. Almost every business owner I sit down with asks me some version of the same ten questions about social media. The answers are less complicated than the industry would have you believe, so here they…
Marketing maintenance Your marketing needs a regular service. Most business owners would never ignore the service schedule on their car. So why do so many treat their marketing differently? They know that skipping oil changes, ignoring strange noises, or putting off maintenance might save a little money today — but eventually it leads to bigger,…
Why Small Business Branding Matters More Than You Think Most small business owners think branding means a logo. Pick a nice font, choose some colours, done. It’s usually one of the first things sorted when a business starts, and one of the last things ever revisited — which is exactly the problem. Branding isn’t the…
Here’s How to Tell If you’re a small business owner in Brisbane or Ipswich juggling your own marketing between everything else on your plate, you’ve probably asked yourself the same question dozens of times: do I need to hire someone for this, or can I keep muddling through? There’s a middle option most business owners…
The Smarter Alternative to Hiring a Full-Time Marketing Department and Why It Works. Most small business owners we talk to didn’t set out to become their own marketing department, it just sort of happened, because hiring a full-time marketer felt like a big commitment for something that might only need a few hours a week. Salaries,…
Fractional Marketing for Small Businesses, What It Is and Why It Works. For most small businesses, hiring a full-time marketing manager or building an entire in-house team simply doesn’t add up. Salaries, superannuation, software subscriptions, and training all stack up quickly, and yet marketing still needs to happen consistently for a business to grow. This…
Why Experience Still Matters, Fresh Marketing Graduates Versus a Seasoned Marketer. There’s a moment that tends to expose the gap fast. You call someone in about a video project, ask for the script and storyboard, and get met with silence, followed by, sorry, what’s a storyboard? It’s not a knock on younger marketers, everyone starts…
Your Marketing Mentor, How a Fractional Marketer Elevates Your Young Team. Hiring a junior marketer is often a smart, budget-friendly move, they bring energy, fresh eyes, and comfort with whatever platform is trending this month. But there’s a real risk when they’re left to figure things out entirely on their own, expensive mistakes, missed opportunities,…