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How to get your business to show up when customers search online

When someone searches for what you sell, you want to be the first name they see. Here is how search actually works, and the handful of things that move you up the page...

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How to grow your reach on social media without posting every day

A repeatable weekly rhythm that keeps your page active without eating your week.

Is running online ads worth it? What it costs and what to expect

Real numbers on budgets, learning periods, and when ads stop being a gamble.

Why your business does not show up on Google, and how to fix it

Six common reasons, in the order you should check them.

How much should a small business spend on marketing?

A simple way to set a budget from your revenue and your margin, not a guess.

Turn one video into thirty posts: a repurposing playbook

The exact steps we use to take one recording and fill a month of content.

What eighteen ad creatives can teach you about what actually converts

The winners, the losers, and what the losing ads told us that the winners did not.

What to automate first when your enquiries start slipping

Reply speed, then routing, then follow-up. In that order, and here is why.

A homepage teardown: what we would change in the first hour

Five fixes that move more visitors to an enquiry, none of them a redesign.

The local SEO checklist for service businesses

Fourteen things to get right before you spend anything on links or content.

Why nobody reads your blog, and what to write instead

Write the answer to a question someone is already typing. Here is how to find those.

Twelve questions to ask before you hire a marketing agency

The answers tell you more than any portfolio will.

An email sequence that recovers abandoned carts without discounting

Three emails, one text, and the reason discounting first costs you margin.

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