Google Customer Match Do you have an email list of customers, prospects, lapsed customers? If you said no, start building one ASAP. No joke, if you have a business, you should ask for email addresses and start tracking this, no questions asked.  If you said yes, we're in business! Let's leverage this to advertise to your most valuable audiences via Google Customer Match. What's Google Customer Match? Check out this Customer Match article. It's a very powerful and easy…

How Much to Invest in Digital Marketing I want to clear up a common misconception. Many folks think they need to spend a ton of money on digital marketing and literally need to have buckets of cash laying around to burn.  I have some good news, this is not the case! Nor would I recommend this. Here's why: Start small and scale My approach is to launch digital marketing campaigns with small daily budgets, prove it's worth, then…

Google Search Keyword Strategy As I mentioned earlier, the best place to start with digital advertising is with Google Search. Reason is you can show an ad for only users in your area who are searching the product and services you are offer, plus you only pay if they click on your ad. Not bad, right? In my last post I gave an overview of Brand keywords vs. Non-Brand Keywords.  For Brand, you should absolutely buy keywords of…

Google Search - What's My Strategy for my Business? The absolutely first place you should go start advertising your business is Google Search. As mentioned, Google Search works because you have the ability to only reach the users in the EXACT moment of intent to buy products or services that you're offering. So, where do you begin? Let me break this down in a few areas. 1) Geography - Google gives you complete control on where to advertise.…

Alright, so you're ready to roll up those DIY sleeves and start marketing your business, right?! Can I get a resounding, Yes Yes Yes! If you said no, grab a double cappuccino to get the energy pumping and come back when you're ready. I'll admit, there are a million ways to advertise. Where do you begin? TV, Radio, Paper, Sandwich boards (joke..maybe a bad one), Facebook, Instagram, Google, Billboards, etc. It's hard, I know. There is a ton…