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Learnings, teachings and tips & tricks for anyone wanting to up their marketing game.
Game-Changing Marketing Hacks You Can’t Ignore in 2025
As we head into 2025, the marketing landscape is evolving faster than ever. With new technologies and changing consumer behaviours, staying ahead of the competition requires innovative strategies that make an impact. Whether you’re a small business or a global brand, these five marketing hacks will be essential for driving growth and engagement in the new year.
Top 5 Marketing Hacks in 2024: Elevate Your Strategy
In the ever-evolving world of digital marketing, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. As we step into 2024, here are the top five marketing hacks that can elevate your strategy and keep your brand thriving.
SEO Expectations Vs Reality
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the process of optimizing a website to increase its visibility and ranking on search engine results pages (SERPs). Here are some common expectations and realities of SEO.
5 Reasons Why You May Want To Rethink Building Your Own Website
We get it, when you are starting out in business or transferring your professionalism as an established business into the online world it can be tempting to have a go at creating the website yourself. Until you get stuck right in and you realise you are wasting hours of your time trying to learn a skill that is taking you a way from the key logistics of your business.
What Are Google Ads & How Can They Help You Grow Your Business
Are you considering investing in Google Ads to reach your business goals? There is no doubt that paid ads can be an extremely effective form of digital marketing; as long as they are part of a strategic campaign created with your business goals in mind.
Discover everything you need to know about Google ads as a business owner before you invest your time and money.
Customer Journey Mapping
An effective customer journey is essential for any business investing in marketing on the Sunshine Coast. Whether your ideal clients keep pulling out of sales at the last moment or you’re struggling to reach them at all, customer journey mapping is what will bridge those gaps and improve your conversion rate.
Here’s everything you need to know about customer journey maps, why you need one, and how to design the perfect journey for your customers.
What Is SEO and Why Is It So Important?
If your business has a website - as most modern-day businesses should - you’ve likely heard of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). It’s a term often surrounded by technical jargon such as ‘search volume’ or ‘backlinks’ and can easily be considered too complex for business owners to bother with. The good news is that SEO - on the Sunshine Coast and beyond - doesn’t have to be as complicated as it seems.
Your Website, HTTPS and What You Need to Know
Is your website safe and secure for your visitors? Google is pushing hard for HTTPS everywhere so that the web is a safer place, and SEO rankings are on the line if you don't follow their lead. Here is everything you need to know about HTTPS and how it will affect your website.
Why Social Media is Important for your Small Business
Social media marketing is a great way to reach new prospects, customers and business partners, but that isn't the only reason why your small business should be on social media. Here are 10 other reasons why social media marketing is important for your business.
15 Common SEO Myths Debunked
With the SEO landscape constantly changing and updating, there are a lot of misconceptions still at play for business owners and marketers. Here we debunk 15 of the most common myths still affecting SEO today.
8 Ways a Small Business Benefits from an Online Presence
If you're not yet convinced your small business needs a website or social media profile, we're here to change your mind, because we think it's super important for the growth of your business. Here are 8 ways your business can benefit from having an online presence.
15 Tips to Effectively Work from Home
Covid and its subsequent lockdowns have made working from home more and more commonplace - from business owners setting up a home office and employees working remotely, to freelancers working wherever their laptops are. But it’s not an easy change, so here are a few tips and tricks to make sure you get the most out of your working day.
6 Reasons to Invest in Your Brand
In the world of branding size doesn’t matter - you don’t need to be a big business or have a large budget in order to define your brand. But if you take the time to invest in your brand, it can help grow your business and boost profitability. So to make sure branding moves up in your to-do list, here are some reasons why you should take this time.
What Should I Include on My Website?
Your website is your digital shopfront. And with 68% of all online experiences starting with a search engine there is a good chance that your website is going to be the first impression for your potential clients!
Holistic Marketing - Perfecting Your Recipe For Success
What happens when you bake a cake and use the wrong flour? Well many things can happen. Maybe it doesn’t mix well, maybe it tastes off, maybe it doesn’t form a cake at all? Well the same thing happens when you don’t meld your marketing activity. Your advertising, sales promotions, public relations, direct marketing, social media - they all need to work together like a unified force, or the perfect cake recipe, directed towards one specific goal.
10 Ways to Get Free Online Visibility for your Business
In the world of digital marketing, visibility and traffic is the goal of any business owner. But if you don’t have the big bucks of Coca Cola or Toyota, then free ways to generate visibility of your business and traffic to your website are a must. Here are our top 10 tips to achieve just that.
10 FREE Ways to Increase Website Traffic
Check out our 10 FREE ways to increase your website traffic today to start getting more enquiries to your business!
Humanising Your Brand Through Social Media
There’s a good chance you already know that you need to find the best ways to connect with your customers to see success, it’s pretty obvious that without customers you wouldn’t have a business right! But do we truly understand the best ways to connect with them? Well simply put, the best way to connect with them is face-to-face right? A human connection.
10 Essential Elements to Telling Your Brand Story
Stories are a powerful tool in human communication - to read, hear or see a story is to feel an experience. Stories capture attention, pique interest, entice people. Stories produce trust and cultivate genuine connections. And that is why your brand’s story is such an essential part of your business and your relationship with your customers.
Tips to Optimise Your Email Campaigns
Do you have hundreds (or maybe thousands) of unread emails? If you do, then your clients probably do too! So here are a few ways that you can optimise your email marketing campaigns to make sure you cut through the email clutter, get more opens, and ultimately, more conversions.