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A small business guide to creating your marketing strategy

Marketing strategy doesn’t need to be complicated. For us a marketing strategy needs to answer three key questions: what is your current situation; what are you trying to achieve and how are you going to do this? For us the most important part of any marketing strategy is that everyone understands it, can recall it and it guides their actions.

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A guide to increasing your local visibility

Local Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of optimising your online presence to reach more customers from nearby searches, especially Google Search and maps. It will help your business to show up when people search for services “near me” or in a specific town, like “restaurants in Chelmsford”.

In today’s blog we are going to focus on tips and tricks to make sure your Google Business Profile is optimised.

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Email marketing tips for small businesses

As a marketing agency, we have supported small businesses with setting up and delivering their email marketing strategy. Therefore, we wanted to put together a guide of email marketing tips for small businesses to help you on your way! In this week’s blog, we explore everything from understanding your email marketing objectives to some of the most missed opportunities we see from the small businesses we talk to.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

A week in the life of a freelance marketer

One of the most popular blogs I have written over the last few years was a week in the life of a Senior Marketing Manager, so I thought I would recreate this now that I am a freelance marketing consultant.

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2023 the year of the nostalgia marketing

Today, I wanted to explore some of the most impactful and memorable campaigns of 2023, and we can’t get away from the nostalgia of those brands. This is why I am calling 2023 the year of nostalgia marketing.

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The role of storytelling: Using a narrative in your marketing strategy

If you have read any of our previous blogs you will know that we love storytelling at Marketing Moments and think it has a key role to play in a marketing team. Today, we wanted to explore the role of storytelling and creating a compelling narrative in your marketing strategy.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

Top tips for getting the most out of awareness days

We’ve seen a lot of debate recently about whether charities and businesses should be getting involved in awareness days and whether they are still effective. At Marketing Moments, we believe they offer a good solution to social media or marketing teams as part of a wider content strategy. However, we think it is all about picking the right ones and making sure they are aligned with your brand! We’ve put together our top tips for you…

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

Our guide to getting your brand values to stick

We are going to say something controversial here, brand values are only useful if staff can recall them, understand how they apply to them and believe in them. Easy right, how hard can that be? Well, we are going to walk you through how we would go about this. Whether you’re a small business with less than ten employees or you have hundreds, there are lots of tried and tested ways of achieving this.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

Tips for getting started on social media

We wanted to take some time to share some top tips for getting started on social media. This blog is aimed at small businesses that are wishing to dip their toes in social media and are wondering how to go about it. Read more…

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

Tips for aligning your storytelling with your brand

We are living in the content era, as marketers there is always a pressure to keep creating content that matters and can break through the noise. So, I thought as we continue through National Storytelling Week, I would share some tips and tricks of how to align storytelling with your brand.

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Natasha Milsted Natasha Milsted

An approach to moving towards personalisation in your marketing strategy

In this month’s blog we wanted to explore all things personalisation. We will cover what we mean by personalisation and how this differs from content segmentation; a suggested approach to move towards personalisation, with examples of how others are using these techniques. You will see many claims across the internet about how personalisation can help to drive up revenue and conversion and throughout my career I have seen first-hand the benefit off moving towards a personalisation strategy.

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