For helpful business advice on topics from how to get your business up and running, to how to use social media to find more customers, these useful articles will help you get ahead of your competition.
Most small businesses will find it tough to identify areas where they can tighten up the budget, because we’re not playing with the casual millions that big corps are. But we can do it. Finding waste, improving targeting, working on efficiency and marketing more to our existing customers are four places to start. 1. Identify […]
There’s a reason silly tone of voice workshops with games and Post-its exist. You’re trying to get answers from a lateral approach. You can’t ask people trying to run a business, ‘what’s our tone of voice?’ or even, ‘what are we?’ It doesn’t work. You get the same tired clichés or just…nothing. So, we have […]
AI copywriting has been around for a few years now, but the quality has been nowhere NEAR good enough to use for your business. Now, I have a bias: I’m a copywriter. However, if I weren’t a copywriter, how would I judge how good this robot’s copy is? Takes one to know one. I’ll try […]
The reason so many brands have dropped any association with Kanye West is, simply, dollars. Whatever the founders, CEOs, shareholders and leadership feel about his views, it comes down to what they think will affect their bottom line. Now Elon Musk has bought Twitter and started making his mark, he intends to let controversial figures […]
In our local communities, we can find hundreds of other small business owners just like us. People who had the balls to start and sustain a venture that so often comes way too close to home, financially and emotionally. Are you connecting with them? Supporting them? Starting partnerships with them? If you’re not, you’re missing […]
If you want senior team members to give a heck about LinkedIn, you have to make it easy for them. At this point in their careers, they’re probably not hustling and thought leader-ing – because they’re too busy doing the job they put years of that work into achieving. That means it’s vital to […]
‘Marketing’ means different things to different people, so it’s very important to decide which activities are covered by which role within your marketing team. For instance, brand is not the same as marketing. It doesn’t involve the same skills – it just has crossover. A marketing team is not only made up of creative personalities. […]
780,000 businesses were started in 2020, as many people’s work drastically changed or they looked around for something more. Between 2020 and 2021, 13% more startups were formed than in the year before. In fact, more startups are being formed than at any other time in history. Small business is booming. Are you ready to […]
Most of us will have come across a tweet or Facebook post claiming ‘I forced a bot to watch 1,000 hours of [cultural reference] and this is what it wrote’ along with a clearly human-written parody. It’s a meme. We think bots will always be inferior to human creativity, making hilarious gaffes when they attempt […]
Remote team working is brilliant for roles that require deep work, especially creatives who have to physically produce something. One of the struggles, however, is keeping everyone happy. When we’re not next to each other, the easy-breezy, natural team building is gone. We have to actively get that back somehow, or new starters and junior […]