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Tools to Support Small Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Small businesses have been scaling back their operations and temporarily closing their physical locations due to consumers staying home as a result of the pandemic. Without their patronage, small businesses are left with limited options when it comes to generating income. Fortunately, with the surrounding communities coming together and the benefits of the digital age, […]
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Working from Home: Advice We’re Following and Giving Clients

A little over a week ago, Vision Advertising moved to work remotely. For us as a primarily digital marketing agency, it was a reasonably smooth transition with our work-from-home guidelines and tools already well established. Now, with the new orders from Governor Baker, we’re helping more and more of our clients not only continue to […]
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What to Do and Tell Your Customers During the COVID-19 Crisis

In the face of the coronavirus (aka COVID-19), we’re seeing unwelcome changes in the US in response to the crisis. Panic buying and hoarding, misinformation, and state orders are disrupting normal life and businesses. More than any of the above, the biggest issue facing your business right now is uncertainty. Your staff isn’t sure if […]
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Running a Successful Internship Program: Webinar Video

Last month, we ran our second Facebook Live marketing workshop, this time dealing with running an internship program. Now that video stands as a webinar to help you get started with building a plan that both your business and interns can get behind. We’ve been running our program for years: learn in this video what […]
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The Marketing You Have to Do Before Opening a Restaurant

There’s a persistent statistic that 9 out of every 10 restaurants fail within the first year. While this is a frightening anecdote, it’s also not true. Why is this rumor so prevalent then? Of all the startups in the US, restaurants are often the most visible as necessary brick-and-mortar locations with purchase prices within the […]

Executive Interview; Empowering Women in Business

Today, I had the chance to sit down with recently promoted, Julia Becker Collins, Chief Operating Officer of Vision Advertising. If Vision Advertising was a wheel, Julia would be the hub on which everything turns. She leads all aspects of the company, from developing and directing the marketing plans of clients to managing the operations […]