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WHY HIRE EXPERTS: IMPROVE YOUR GAME

Why Hire Experts: Improve Your Game

Have you ever done that annoying exercise where you have to instruct someone else how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich using only words? It’s a reliable way to frustrate people. Okay, so that’s not the actual point of the exercise. But you already know the point of the experiment here: no one…

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Clubhouse is Hot and Facebook Is Not: How to Know If You Care

Clubhouse is Hot and Facebook Is Not: How to Know If You Care

If you haven’t heard, Clubhouse is the newest social media darling to burst onto the scene. And it’s causing a lot of business owners heartburn. Should they be on it? How do they use it? What should they do with it (because it is different). And at the same time, Facebook, the old standard, seems…

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May Day, May Day - the Core Web Vitals are coming…

Mayday, Mayday… the Core Web Vitals Are Coming…

Here’s the news: On May 1, 2021, Google will start factoring in Core Web Vitals as part of how Google decides what pages show up where in search results. And as my friend Stacey might say, “Those are all words and all English, but I don’t know what you are saying.” Feeling a bit like…

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Review These 2 Google Analytics Reports Before You Spend Money on Ads

Review These 2 Google Analytics Reports Before You Spend Money on Ads

The idea of paying for leads is a hard one to swallow when you start a business. But once you have some cash flow, it can seem to be an easy way to acquire new customers. That’s only true, though, if you can turn those eyeballs into email addresses and those email addresses into money…

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Want to Achieve Business Growth and Confidence? Coaching Isn’t the Only Option!

Want to Achieve Business Growth and Confidence? Coaching Isn’t the Only Option!

Are you at a crossroads in your business? If you’re stuck and looking to gain confidence on the path to achieving the business growth you desire, you may be considering getting a business coach. I say: Forget coaching. Use data instead. There’s no doubt about it: Growing a business is nerve racking, anxiety inducing, and…

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USING METRICS, ANALYTICS, AND INSIGHTS TO TRACK GROWTH

Using Metrics, Analytics, and Insights to Track Growth

Growth is messy. It just is. As much as we (and I’m clearly projecting here) want to make it planned, predictable, and an exponential curve up and to the right, that isn’t the reality. If you want to track growth, that can get even messier. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be. There are many quotable…

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Why would you pay for analytics help?

Google Analytics is a powerful tool with a lot of information in there. But if you don’t use it all the time, it’s not really clear what matters and what’s important for your business. At the end of the day, it just might be worthwhile to get some analytics help. Listen to Season 1: Episode…

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Why would you pay for metrics consulting?

Why Would You Pay for Metrics Consulting?

As business owners, we have plenty of ideas. I don’t know about you, but I can’t even stand in line at a coffee shop without having thoughts about how they could improve the customer experience. I think that’s just the nature of the entrepreneurial brain (or maybe it’s just me?). So why in tarnation do…

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Why Would You Pay for Website Reports?

Why Would You Pay for Website Reports?

Do you get excited about website reports? Does anyone? Let me put it this way: Do you sprint to the mailbox and excitedly tear open your retirement account statement when it arrives every quarter? No? What about regularly checking in on the status of your other assets: equity in your home, real estate holdings? Still…

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Tech Trends Don’t Pay the Bills

Tech Trends Don’t Pay the Bills

I recently did a training for a group of business owners on tiny tech hacks. It’s a training that shares my framework for making tech decisions and my absolute must-have tech tools. During the Q&A, one of the ladies in the group asked me about tech trends. It was a great question, but not because…

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