Contacting old clients – yes or no?
Contacting old clients, or to clients who may have canceed at the last minute and not rescheduled, really is a great idea, here’s why.
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How to Attract Ideal Clients & Build Your Online Counseling Caseload
In this article, we share 3 marketing strategies for online couseling that will help you stop worrying and start doing what you love; helping others.
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Branding, Blogging, and Being Awesome | PoP 401
In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to brand a private practice, blogging and being awesome for those starting out.
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Jonathan Levi Wants You to Be Super Human and to Launch More Courses | PoP 400
Can you enhance your memory? What are some of the basics of understanding online learning? How do you launch a course?
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Should you add email or text-based counseling to your online practice?
Email counseling has become the most popular medium for my therapy with almost 50% of my clients using email or in combination of video and phone sessions.
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Five Tips to Automate Your Private Practice
Spending more time doing administrative work for your practice than providing for your clients? It’s time to start automating your private practice.
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Be a Game Changer in Your Town
You can call it marketing, advertising, the perception of it is clear: you’re a professional providing “ah-ha” moments of your work for others to digest.
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Colleagues not Competitors: Building Professional Relationships with Your Peers
Being in private practice often means you miss colleague relationships. Networking and establishing relationships with those in your field is important too.
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What the HELL is Happening in Michigan? How HB 4325 will improve access to mental health
From Joe: Special thanks to Jeremy Zug from Practice Solutions for this article. Jeremy is also a consultant with Practice of the Practice and…
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Michael Ceely on How to Hyper-Niche | PoP 398
How do you find your hyper-niche? How can you combine your passion and your practice? What are some of the steps to take?
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4 Reasons Why Local SEO Fails And Tips
Local SEO can be a delicate art to master. Some local businesses struggle to boost their visibility in their area despite adding location-based keywords.
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Holly Chantal on Setting Yourself Apart | PoP 396
In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok speaks with Holly Chantal about finding your unique voice in business and aligning with next stage of business growth.
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3 Key Tips to Up Your Game as an Online Therapist
Being an online therapist can be a very rewarding career. With this freedom comes the responsibility of continually looking for ways to up our game.
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Getting To Grips With The Online World In Business
When it comes to running your business, you should have a good idea of what’s happening online to be able to use it to your advantage.
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Small Search: Getting Your Website Into Local Rankings
As a small business, it isn’t always easy to deal with complicated search algorithms. Learn about local search techniques which can apply to all businesses.
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Tommy Griffith did SEO at PayPal and AirBnB and now teaches entrepreneurs how to make e-courses | PoP 394
How do you turn your side-gig into your full-time gig? What are some of the basics of understanding SEO? And how do you launch…
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Ask the Expert Clay Cockrell on Online Counseling | PoP 393
In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok speaks to Clay Cockrel from onlineconseling.com about the opportunity of counseling online, how to start your online counseling practice, and some valuable tips on how to make it work.
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How to Name a Private Practice | Step-by-Step
This weekend a friend visited me. This isn’t any friend, he’s my best friend from college. We were roommates. Scheduled our graduate school classes…
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Networking to Grow your Practice
When you are first starting your private practice, the to-do lists are endless, and on top of that, it’s important to get out there…
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Ask Kelly Higdon: What are Some Marketing Ideas for Private Practice?
Where does content creation fit in? When you’re first starting out, focus on your website and blogging (minimum of twice a month) Social media…
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Allow Technology To Help Your Practice Grow
If you are setting up a private practice and you want to make sure that you can allow it to grow as it needs…
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What is a Marketing Strategy, really? (3 of 3)
In my previous posts (part 1 and part 2) I discussed the first components of a marketing strategy for private practice: thinking about your…
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Our Top 10 YouTube Videos for 2019 Thus Far
Which phase of practice are you in? Starting? Growing? Maybe you’re scaling? I know that whichever phase of practice you’re in there are always…
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Dr. Marie Fang is Helping You Build Private Practice Skills | PoP 382
Are you just starting a practice and have some unanswered questions? Within your own marketing, are you being consistent with your branding? Want to…
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Ask Kelly Higdon: What are the Mistakes/Successes when Starting a Counseling Practice?
Common Mistakes Counselors Make When Starting/Growing A Private Practice Not building your business around the life you want Not facing fears related to ideal…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: June 2019
In the blink of an eye half of the year is gone and we hope it’s been an amazing 6 months of 2019 for…
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Juan Santos is an Introvert and He’s Good at Marketing | PoP 380
Are you an introvert? Do you struggle to market your business because you are not comfortable with putting yourself out there? Want some key…
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What is a Marketing Strategy, really? (2 of 3)
In my previous post, I shared some thoughts on what marketing is about and discussed the first component of a marketing strategy. In this…
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Avoid the Summer Slump in Private Practice
For many private practices, they experience a “summer slump.” Summer is a time when people go on vacations, spend time away, and may feel…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: May 2019
How is it possible that we are already halfway through the year?! Time sure does fly when you’re having fun. May was jam-packed with…
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Social Media VS Search Medium
I think there’s a paradigm shift going on here that many of us are starting to figure out. For every new social media platform…
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What is a Marketing Strategy, really? (1 of 3)
Most therapists seem to have an incomplete idea of what marketing means. Some think it is about creating awareness (“you have to get your…
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Which Social Media Sites Should You Use and How to Use Them
Do you find yourself scratching your head when trying to figure out which social media platforms to use in marketing your practice? Do you…
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Brendan Kane Got a Million Followers in One Month and Works with Katie Couric, Taylor Swift, and Fortune 500 Companies | PoP 372
How much do you know about marketing for your digital platform? Are you at all focused on growing your social media presence? Do you…
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When Social Media Goes South, Do These 3 Things
If you have a growing business it is likely that you will experience negative or challenging feedback on your social media platforms. The experience…
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Social Media: A Necessity in Today’s Online World
In today’s changing world, more and more dominated by millennials, social media for therapists is a necessity. Word of mouth is one, but a…
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10 Ways to Get Your Name Out There
Over the course of watching some of the greats in private practice operate, I’ve concluded that they stick out because they aren’t following the…
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How to Network Locally
Are you just starting your private practice and are not sure how to get more referrals? You’ve got your website set up and are…
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How to Use Instagram to Promote your Blog Posts
Using content marketing to promote your practice is crucial in today’s digital world. You’ve studied hard and done a ton of training to become…
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A Quick Guide to Content Creation
Why Create Content? We have to ask ourselves why are we spending time creating something when there’s so much information out there? Well for…
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Here’s the Content Strategy You’ve Been Looking For
Here’s the content strategy you’ve been looking for in seven points: 1. What’s trending? Go on to your favorite news service Apple News, YouTube…
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The 5 Secrets Behind a Great Content Plan
I started a podcast a number of years ago that totally failed. The reason was that it was past where my audience was. Because…
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How to Market Your Business | PoP 362
Are your marketing efforts dwindling a bit? Do you feel that you could do better but you are just not sure where to start?…
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Here’s Why Content Is King
In general, people are really overwhelmed and busy. Think about who you actually listen to, who do you follow on a regular consistent basis?…
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Ace the Gram with Tash and Viv: How to Master Instagram | PoP 360
How active are you on Instagram? Are you posting the appropriate content for your audience base? Are you keen to find out how you…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: February 2019
2019 is showing no sign of slowing down! February was jam-packed and we covered some great topics such as how to create recurring revenue…
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Content Marketing Essentials to Grow Small Businesses in 2019
In the information age, small businesses have the opportunity to compete with the companies, which are much bigger in size. Today, every organization has…
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3 Ways to Increase SEO and Rank Higher With Google
If you’ve been in the counseling business for a while, you probably have a website. Have you ever wondered whether your website is helping…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: January 2019
And just like that January is wrapped up! 2019 certainly started off with a bang. Some phenomenal guests were featured on the podcast and…
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How I’ve Launched Big Ideas
Launching an idea or new business service in your private practice can be a little nerve-wracking. Simply because you’re challenging the norms of what…
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Social Media: How to Choose the Best Platform for your Practice
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram…. oh my! There are so many options when it comes to choosing which social media platform will work best for you…
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4 Benefits of Specificity in Business
There’s a whole array of different stuff to focus on in any given business. Never mind a startup or entrepreneurial venture. Especially, a startup…
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Public Speaking Topics Within Private Practice
How do you brainstorm topics to talk about in your keynote? The first techniques that I love coming up with in a keynote speech…
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Public Speaking Importance Within Private Practice
We’re covering exactly how you can use public speaking to get more referrals in your private practice or your business. So few people are…
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6 Factors to Consider Before Deciding Your Digital Marketing
Digital marketing is super important since we’ve moved into a more digital world. This will create a much better situation for yourself, and for…
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Marketing Strategies For Growing Your Practice
When it comes to growing your business online, there are so many different strategies and tactics out there being promoted as the right ones….
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Dr. Chloe Carmichael Knows How to Get the Media’s Attention | PoP 345
Not sure how to leverage media attention? Always wondered how to form favorable relationships with the media? Keen to hear about some strategies for…
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7 Ways to Promote Your Practice on Social Media
Social media has become an excellent means of promoting the practice where the clients and parties can interact directly. It is a very effective…
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How to Use Facebook to Get Involved with Your Local Community
When you have a private practice, marketing and networking is key, whether in-person or through social media. Either way, you are looking to get…
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5 Ways to Market Your Online Counseling Practice
Once you establish your online counseling practice, your next step is to attract new clients through marketing. Fortunately, marketing your online practice is very…
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5 Reasons Why You Should Use Google Ads For Your Business
Google launched their online advertising platform nearly 18 years ago and up until recently, it was called Google Adwords. It has now been changed…
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Nick Usborne Will Teach You Conversational Copywriting | PoP 343
How familiar are you with conversational copywriting? Do you struggle to write in your own authentic voice? What if imperfection was the key to…
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Does Your Practice Need A Blog?
For some medical professionals, it’s the ultimate dream to start your own private practice. All through medical school you could be waiting for the…
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Jaime Masters is an Eventual Millionaire [reverse podcast] | PoP 342
Are you starting, growing or scaling your practice? Are you a specialist or a generalist? Do you know how important it is to slow…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: November 2018
In the month of November we tackled topics such as how to market yourself as a consultant, how to run an online counseling practice…
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The Counselor in the Room: Attending a Conference Outside Your Field
In my previous article“The Unplanned Day of Networking” I recounted a day I took advantage of random encounters as opposed to actively overextending myself…
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Should you start a group practice?
Recently I was talking to someone who said, “I’m full, but I don’t want to start a group practice.” We talked about how when…
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Get Exposure for Your Practice Through In-Person Networking Events
A great way to increase the visibility of your practice and increase your clients is by networking. This can be carried out either in-person…
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It’s All About Relationships: Networking Locally to Build a Client Referral Base
Starting a private practice is exciting! It can also be daunting, overwhelming and exhausting. The concept is simple: rent a space, hold therapy sessions…
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How to Market Yourself As a Consultant
When you look at marketing yourself as a consultant you should look at: What you already have set up. Growing your specialty – this…
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How to Improve Your Google Ranking
Are you wanting to improve your Google ranking? Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private…
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How To Promote Your Business On A Small Budget
One of the greatest challenges that startups and small business owners face is a low marketing budget. Even when you don’t have funds for…
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How to Market a Private Practice Workshop
Do you run workshops as part of your private practice, but you aren’t sure how to market them? Q&A was part of Next Level…
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Christopher Lochhead Wants You To Be a Small “E” Entrepreneur And He Hates Pickles | PoP 335
As an entrepreneur, do you focus on the problem or the solution? Do you think that being ‘different’ is a negative thing? What sets…
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Christopher Lochhead Wants Your Practice to Niche Down | PoP 334
How familiar are you with the term ‘niche’? How do you differentiate your business or the way you run it? Do you believe in…
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Instagram Stories And Highlights: How You Can Use Them To Showcase Your Practice
I love using Instagram stories to share information about my practice and my services. I want to share a small breakdown of how I…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: October 2018
In the month of October we had a diversity of articles talking about how to decorate your office with purpose to using a virtual…
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How to Run an Online Counseling Practice
Are you wanting to get involved in online counseling? Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a…
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The Unplanned Day Of Networking
Some people may consider networking to be a necessary evil in the professional world. It doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Occasionally opportunities…
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7 Email Marketing Tips For Private Practices
Email marketing is one of the best tools to spread your outreach and raise awareness of your private practice. However, it’s more in how…
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Quick Tips For Networking
When I volunteered to write blog posts for another therapist’s page, I was excited. I like being able to connect with new people and…
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Why Linking Your Social Media Posts To Your Blog Is Important
We have all heard it before, the importance to blog! Blogging is a way to easily share your expertise and a way to help…
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An Abundance Mentality And Your Ideal Client
Have you ever talked to your clients about the difference between a scarcity consciousness and an abundance mentality? Here’s the example that I use…
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Networking Guide For Therapists
Therapists usually have one thing in common…. They hate selling themselves! So it’s no surprise that networking can be intimidating and challenging for most…
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Social Media Sprint: How To Optimize Twitter And Instagram | PoP 330
Does your ideal client spend a lot of time on Twitter and/or Instagram? Do you know how to use Twitter to effectively market your…
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Social Media Sprint: How To Optimize LinkedIn And Pinterest | PoP 329
Are you wanting to have more of a business presence on social media? Are you aware of the benefits LinkedIn could have to your…
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Social Media Sprint: How To Optimize Facebook | PoP 328
Do you have a Facebook business page but you’re not sure what to post? Are you posting content that is relevant to your ideal…
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How Therapists Can Do Social Media Right
By now, you’ve heard time and again that businesses need to be active on social media to attract new audiences and maintain engagement with…
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Introduction To Generating A Passive Income
Unit 1 Of The Passive Income Series We’re going to be talking about all things passive income: When should you use it in your…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: September 2018
In the month of September we had wonderful articles talking about everything from how to deal with no-show clients to how to get your office…
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A Few Practical Tips That Helped Me Establish My Paper & Process Systems
I’ve been in private practice for almost two years now and there have been so many new things that I’ve had to learn along…
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How To Stop Sounding Like Every Other Therapist
Dear Therapist Stop being boring when you market. Stop writing your profiles and web copy like you are writing your dissertation or worse yet…
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20 Podcasts To Listen To Now
I’m going to share with you my favorite podcasts. Of course I love my own podcast, the Practice of the Practice podcast where we help people have innovative ideas to start, grow, and scale their private practices. This is for people that have a counseling private practice, massage therapy, chiropractors, attorneys – all sorts of people with a private practice….
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3 Easy Ways to Generate Ideas for Content Marketing
Content marketing is a great way to bring ideal clients into your practice. However, if you’re not familiar with the process of creating content…
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Should I Give My Private Practice a Generic Name?
Are you in the process of naming your private practice? Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting…
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Lacy Boggs Knows A Lot About Content Creation | PoP 324
Have you heard about content marketing and does it send shivers down your spine? Do you have a blog but not sure how to…
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Tara McMullin Creates Economic Powerhouses | PoP 323
Have you ever thought about your business having the potential to become an economic powerhouse? Are you wondering how to better connect with your…
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Meighan O’Toole Helps Small Businesses Define, Establish, And Build Their Businesses Online | PoP 322
Do you need some help defining, establishing and building your business online? Are you stuck for ideas about what to share on social media…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: August 2018
In the month of August we started an insightful Marketing Strategies series which looks at different types of marketing and how you can optimise…
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Marketing Strategies: How to Optimise Your Website
This is unit 3 of this marketing series and we’re going to be covering what you need to do to optimise your website. Two…
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