Monthly Archives: May 2012

Video Marketing – Have You Taken the Leap?

The buzz throughout the online marketing world is the importance in video marketing and what this tool can do for your brand and your business. If you’ve jumped on board, you’ve discovered the viral effects this type of marketing can … Continue reading

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Consistent Customer Communications Start with a Clear Strategy

How do you generate leads among your customer base? Do you wait for a customer to contact you to place another order or add accessories to a platform they already own? If you are like most business owners, you can’t … Continue reading

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Do a Webinar, and Build a New Community That Thinks You’re Amazing

Want to have thousands of people promoting the great benefits of your product or service around the clock, across multiple platforms and without you ever needing to be there? Consider a webinar. You may be wondering “Should I do a … Continue reading

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Java with Jenn

Welcome to the latest edition of our Monday Morning Coffee Talks. Meet Jenn Milbourne, one of the dynamic members of the SJC team, and someone who took a very interesting path to arrive in the place she is today. Read … Continue reading

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Newsletter Marketing – an Often Overlooked Means of Generating Referrals

“Work smart, not hard,” a wise person once said. Many times business owners forget that their current customer base is a great source of future income streams. Instead of generating leads the hard way, why not let your customers bring … Continue reading

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Does Your Brand Shine in Your Writing?

Believe it or not, this is an important question. Everything you do as a representative of your brand impacts that brand – including your writing. Never is that message more clear than when you notice a writing mistake. As a … Continue reading

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Why You Need an Expert Writing Your Blog

You have your website up and running and you’ve added a blog tab for your customers and interested parties to read the valuable content you provide. You even consider yourself a good writer, but is that enough to make sure … Continue reading

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Now That You Have Them, What Will You Do to Engage Your Audience?

Remember catching a firefly on a summer night as a child, or maybe catching a brilliant jar full? In some ways, it’s a little bit like engaging your audience with content marketing tools. The question is the same:  now that … Continue reading

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Monday Morning Coffee Talk with Stephanie

My name is Stephanie Girvan, and I was born and raised around the St. Joseph area. I was always the one who said I was leaving St. Joseph and never coming back. Well, I’m still here, but one of my … Continue reading

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The Importance of Relevant Content in Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not about just throwing a bunch of unrelated key words together in the hopes of getting noticed. In fact, if that’s your strategy, you’re likely to get flagged as SPAM and go straight to the … Continue reading

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