Unleash the power of digital marketing and personal connections with our proven five-step plan, tailored for small business growth. Dive into content creation, social media savvy, email outreach, networking magic, and customer feedback loops to transform your business's sales strategy.

Perhaps you want to display data from your business in interesting ways. Or maybe you need some sounds to use in your latest video. I have pulled this list together to get the creative juices flowing as well as to highlight some useful tools for you and your business.

What if you were able to travel back in time just when the internet was becoming popular in 1995, BUT you know what you know now about the possibilities. What would you do?

A scam story, I wouldn’t believe it if it didn’t happen to me. As you may know Wise Crescent Inc. builds managed mobile ready websites for small businesses. Well, one day while I was on the road I received a short email message and the elaborate adventure began. The adventure began with the very short message:

Have you ever examined your personal business network to see what is missing or at least determine the strengths and weaknesses? Following are 5 steps you can take to build a stronger personal business network and put that network to work for you!

Followers don’t pay the bills customers do. Some of the advice for small business start-ups in the market today tells about brand building and the need to engage people through social media, blogs, podcasts and in new inventive ways every day. This is all great but if you are spending your limited time “engaging” then when are you doing the “selling”? Also, small business owners have to face the fact that when they start out they don’t have a brand to build yet!

Okay, you have decided to create content to build your audience online or to generate leads and fill your sales funnel. You have your plan and you are executing it but soon you run into the “what next problem”. What topic will you create a content piece on? You are stuck on what topic to work with. Worse yet, your numbers are in from your previous content and no one is consuming your stuff? What gives? You start to sweat… the clock is ticking… Okay don’t worry!

Success online for your business requires some key things your website needs. You will discover what your website needs and you can measure where your website measures up against these needs. Then you can build your action plan to your business success!

Delivery of this content breaks down into several different channels but I would like to focus on two distinct channels which most are familiar with: Websites and Social Platforms. As a business owner, keep this question in mind, “where should I focus my money and attention online for the long term benefit for my company?” Now with the stage set, let’s dive into Websites versus Social platforms review.

Most likely you are posting, pinning, streaming, casting, tweeting, commenting, reading, watching, and/or interacting with some type of social media on a regular basis. WHY? I understand the draw for personal reasons but for business you have to know why or it can be all consuming and very costly. Hopefully by the end of this post you will know why you do it and be able to take positive action for your business.