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Competitive Analysis: Redesigning Your Marketing Playbook

When you’ve poured your heart into your business, your focus is automatically drawn to internal operations. Yet, broadening your brand’s reach requires you to look outward to refocus inward. Researching your competitors helps you gain a competitive edge in your industry. It allows you to define the landscape, what’s needed of you to stand out, […]
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The Importance of a Winning Mission Statement

It’s one thing to want to be the best in your field, but conveying your commitment to quality, integrity, and values in words is much more influential. That’s the role of your mission statement. It’s an opportunity to find consumers with shared values and communicate the fundamental purpose of your company. A well-crafted mission statement […]
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Cross-Selling vs. Upselling: Bolstering Your Revenue

Selling a customer a bar of soap is money earned, but it’s not going to keep a business afloat. You want to encourage customers to spend more. To do so, you need to show them everything else you have to offer. That’s where the two sales tactics – cross-selling and upselling – come into play. […]
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Our UpCity Top Listing and Why It’s Important

It’s always good for your business to rank high online, from search results to review site ratings. Each one is another victory and another avenue for customers to find their way to you. That’s why we’re excited to be listed as one of the Top Web Designers in Worcester. For reference, UpCity is a listings […]
Matching Your Business with Your Email Marketing Platform II

Match Your Business with Email Marketing Platforms II

In part I of this blog, we discussed what functions of email marketing are the most important to you and your business. In this blog, we’ll give a rundown on two email marketing platforms that we are able to use for our clients, and their highlights. Again, there’s not one software solution that is considered […]
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How to Use Email Marketing for Customer Retention

Without question, email marketing is one of the best ways to turn one-time shoppers into long-term customers. It’s a way for you to target your audience, stay connected with them, and build brand loyalty in a place where most people visit every day—in their inbox. With email marketing, your business can create deeper relationships with […]
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Women in Business: Stop Apologizing & Start Living

I’ve been in business since I was 19, and now approaching 40 (what?!), I’m continually blown away that sexism (or ageism) is still even a topic of conversation and a general code of acceptable business conduct… in 2017.  But there it is.  There has always been pressure to accept sexual harassment as a currency of […]