In our podcast episode, Mergers and Acquisitions: Opportunities and Pitfalls, Julia and Laura discussed the importance of mergers and acquisitions when it comes to business strategy, especially the importance of building trust and rapport with the affected parties before signing on the line. In this article, we’ll explore another aspect of M&A: how marketing factors […]
In our podcast episode, Building Strategic Partnerships and Collaborations, Julia and Laura discussed the importance of collaboration in any business, including how to strategically use partnerships to leverage business growth through better connections and efficiencies. In this article, we will explore when to set up these partnerships, uses of vendors and white label services, and […]
In our first podcast episode, Exploring New Market Frontiers, we discussed how important it is to explore your current and possible markets to grow your business and secure an exit strategy for yourself as a business owner. In this article, we want to double down on this topic to give you an understanding at the […]
We’re proud to announce the launch of our new business podcast: enVisioning Success! This podcast with two of our execs at Vision Advertising is all about making smarter decisions for your entrepreneurial journey, from established businesses leading their industry to those just starting out. CEOs, small business owners, and visionaries of all stripes will find […]
Building a business from the ground up isn’t easy, and it’s easy to overlook a marketing department on your way to the top. But once you hit a plateau, that missing component might be holding you back. From better strategy to better branding and larger audiences, learn what you’re missing out on with no marketing […]
This article originally appeared in the Worcester Business Journal on September 18, 2023. Competing for top talent in this post-2020 world with the Great Resignation and quiet quitting is challenging, especially for small businesses like mine. Yet, our 10-person agency had a 100% retention rate the first two COVID years, and we’ve hired two full-timers […]
While Twitter may be snagging headlines again this week for another “interesting” move by the CEO, Elon Musk, we think the biggest change to the social media platform is still the introduction of the competitor, Threads, by Instagram/Meta. So does your business need to be on one of these platforms, and if so, which? As […]
SEO—Search Engine Optimization—is ultimately a tool to get traffic to your website, so it can be very tempting to just look at the numbers of total users and think all is great with your marketing and advertising. But it’s important to look beyond just all traffic to see where that traffic is coming from: its […]
Last week, Julia Becker Collins was in the news as part of a panel of experts quoted by the Massachusetts Business Network (MBN) in their article “6 Experts Share Advice for Starting a Business.” These business tips for becoming an entrepreneur from Massachusetts business experts ran the gambit from attorneys talking about laying the legal […]
APIs—application programming interfaces—are one of those invisible parts of the internet that thousands of apps and people rely on every day without the end users even realizing it. This shorthand for the sets of functions and procedures that allow other applications to access features and data of another allows everything from analytics dashboards to third-party […]