Market a Small Business

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5 Strategies to Effectively Reach Your Target Audience

By MBO Partners

Reaching your target audience and properly communicating with them is important to growing your small business. Reaching the right audience provides visibility into the services you offer, builds brand credibility, and begins to form valuable relationships.   Here are our five tips to reach your target audience and leverage your key messaging to grow a successful,…

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How to Use Twitter to Market Your Small Business: 5 Tips

By MBO Partners

One of the best ways to reach your target audience and connect with future clients is through social media. However, in order to be effective on these platforms, you’ll need to tailor your writing to the specific social platform you are using. With a global user base of more than 450 million people, Twitter is one…

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Social Media Marketing for Small Business: Do’s and Don’ts

By MBO Partners

For independent professionals, social media is an incredibly valuable tool for both networking and marketing. As with any business tool, its success relies on knowing how to use it. Below are some do’s and don’ts we suggest following to help you realize the potential that social media marketing can offer to you and your business. DO:…

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5 Tips to Elevate Your Productivity Working from Home 

By Teegan Howell

As we discovered in our 2021 State of Independence Report, within the past year, 68% of newcomers to the independent workforce were Gen Z or Millennials. Various benefits, such as improved health and happiness, continue to make working as an independent increasingly appealing to young professionals. If you are a college student wanting to join…

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5 Ways to Promote Your Consulting Business on Social Media

By MBO Partners

Social media marketing can produce big results for small businesses. From Facebook and Instagram to Twitter and LinkedIn, there’s a lot you can do to promote your services. The good news for independent contractors is that social media doesn’t require the marketing budget of a large corporation. Use social media to effectively promote your business by…

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5 Tips for Marketing Your Small Business

By MBO Partners

Marketing a small business means that you’re in charge of selling your services to the world. Marketing is a great way to grow your company. It gives your small business an identity and voice. It ensures that your services will be front and center when people search for the solution that you provide. Remember, the…

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5 Key Tips for Business Blog Writing

By MBO Partners

While a blog is often considered to be part of content marketing, they are also interactive and highly sharable, placing them firmly in the social media category. Business blogging, however, requires writing strategies that are somewhat unique, setting the format apart from traditional social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Creating your own blog is a great…

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5 Tips to Write Like a Marketer and Build Your Business

By MBO Partners

What you write can change how people understand, view, and act on a certain topic. Writing conveys passion, enthusiasm, interest, intrigue, and critical information that can help people make better decisions. Writing is a tangible expression of thought, analysis, and influence. So, why is there so much bad writing in business? One of the challenges…

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How to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile if You’re Self-Employed

By Rian Ervin

LinkedIn is an effective social networking platform to display expertise, build connections, and promote your services. Your profile sets the stage for your first contact with potential new clients, displaying your work history, client recommendations, and skillset. Because the profile template is geared towards a more traditional employment background, it can be tricky to figure out…

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9 Things a Small Business ‘About Us’ Page Should Include

By MBO Partners

A professional website should be part of every company’s marketing plan—especially if you’re working as a self-employed professional or small business. The Internet is usually the first place potential clients will look to find a solution to a problem or to verify your credentials. While it is a good idea to include a list of your…

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