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  • Learn Your Target Audience
    Learn how to develop your target audience for your small business. How having a target audience streamlines your marketing.

    This week's guest is Jeff Solomon. Jeff has a varied startup background as a six-time founder with three exits, most notably: selling his Saas CRM company Velocify in 2017 for $128 million. He co-founded the accelerator Amplify.la in Los Angeles, he teaches high school entrepreneurship and is one of the top advisors on Clarity.fm.


    Key Takeaways:

    • What is a target audience
    • How do you get to know your target audience
    • Why customer development is critical to business and marketing success

    Connect with Jeff

    Website


    Music: Tuesday by Sascha Ende, Music.io

    31 min
  • Videos and Social Media
    Learn how to use videos on social media to grow your small business. Learn how videos can help you reach your target audience. Professional videographer tips.

    This week's guest is Matt Peet. Matt Peet is a Videographer turned Marketer. He got his start shooting weddings 10 years ago where he learned how to shoot and edit video fast. He then took that to the entrepreneur space and has been the videographer at large 4000 person events and small 30 person masterminds in places like Puerto Rico. Some of his clients include John Lee Dumas, Disney, Podcast Movement, Woodhouse Day Spa, and more. He has shot at events with speakers like Dan Kennedy from Magnetic Marketing, Pat Flynn, Tony Robbins, and Mark Cuban.


    Key Takeaways:

    • How video helps boost your reach
    • How video helps you engage with your target audience
    • How to make adding video to your content easier
    • How to find creative video content ideas
    • What you need to film good videos

    Connect with Matt:

    Website

    Facebook

    Podcast


    Music: Tuesday by Sascha Ende, Music.io



    41 min
  • How to Create a Brand
    Learn how to create a brand for your small business.How to build a brand that resonates with your target audience.

    Our guests today are Emily Soccorsy + Justin Foster of Root and River Branding. They are a brand strategy team that guide leaders to master intrinsic branding. Intrinsic brands are known by their consistently evocative language, standard-setting experiences and legendary storytelling. They believe that every great brand is a spiritual experience and starts with a powerful message and have recently co-authored the book called Rooting up, Essays on Modern Branding.

    Key Takeaways:

    • How to create an authentic brand
    • How to build a brand that resonates with your target audience
    • How to build an ethical brand

    Connect with Root + River

    Website


    Music: Tuesday by Sascha Ende, Music.io

    29 min
  • Google My Business
    Learn how to use Google My Business to help your small business grow. Using Google My Business to help your business rank in Google searches.

    This week's guest is Amanda Tento. Amanda owns TDM Marketing and is the determined mom. When she was three months pregnant she was determined not to go back to her 9-7 managing a credit union branch. She started The Determined Mom Digital Marketing Agency to help small business owners grow their business and reach more customers. I have 13 years of business management experience and I use it daily for my clients and my own business!

    The Determined Mom offers SEO, WordPress Design, Social Media Management, Ads Management, Blog Writing, SEO and Marketing Coaching and more! We serve Mom Business Owners to help them grow and prosper while spending more time with their kids!

    Key Takeaways:

    • Why everyone should claim the Google listing
    • How to update your Google My Business listing
    • How to use Google my Business to help find new customers
    • How to use Google my Business as an SEO tool
    • How to maintain your listing

    Connect with Amanda:

    Website

    Facebook

    LinkedIn

    Music: Tuesday by Sascha Ende, Music.io

    37 min
  • How to Identify Your Target Audience
    Learn how to identify your target audience.Learn how to pick a niche.Why small businesses need to know their target audience.

    This week's guest is Christiane Mohr. Christiane has a masters in marketing and helps health & personal development coaches to build an ethically rooted & profitable business by defining their niche and their stand-out offer that they love to talk about (and fearlessly). 


    Key Takeaways:

    • Why having a niche is important
    • Why having a niche can help you make more money
    • How to identify your target audience
    • How to connect with your target audience

    Connect with Christiane:

    website


    Music: Tuesday by Sascha Ende, Music.io

    52 min
  • How to Define Your Personal Brand
    Learn how to define your personal brandHow to create a personal and professional brand

    This week's guest is Tracy Borreson. Tracy is a corporate marketing dropout, personal brand advocate and a believer that bringing your personal brand to work is best for you and your business.

    Key Takeaways:

    • How your personal brand shapes your professional brand
    • How to define your personal brand
    • What authenticity looks like in your work


    Connect with Tracy

    Website

    LinkedIn

    Instagram


    Music: Tuesday by Sascha Ende, Music.io

    38 min
  • Digital Marketing for Small Businesses
    Learn about digital marketing for small businesses.Market to your target audience in a way that leads them to purchase.

    This week's guest is Naira Perez, owner of Springhill Digital. She's a digital marketing and paid media enthusiast who works with small businesses to help them grow their digital footprint.

    Key Takeaways:

    • Marketing communication as a two way street
    • What is digital marketing
    • How to use digital marketing for small businesses

    Connect with Naira

    Website

    LinkedIn


    Music: Tuesday by Sascha Ende, Music.io

    1 hr
  • How to Adapt Your Marketing Strategy to Your Audience
    Learn how to adapt your marketing strategy to your target audience.Learn how to build a network and create a community.

    Anjali is an innovative and enthusiastic Marketing professional with over 7 years of work experience broadly ranging from Corporate firms to Marketing agencies to Startups. Her expertise and skills lie in Digital Marketing, Strategy & Planning, Brand & Account Management, Social Media Marketing and Blogging. She has executed strategic marketing initiatives and solved brand issues creatively for several projects under her belt.

    Anjali is also passionate about empowering Immigrants living in the States. She writes helpful articles on life in the US at theanjalinair.com where she shares resources for Immigrant women to establish a career and navigate their new life in the States.

    Key Takeaways:

    • Learn how to find your target audience
    • Learn how to a adapt your marketing strategy to your target audience
    • Learn how to use your network to create a community

    Connect with Anjali


    Music: Tuesday by Sascha Ende, Music.io

    35 min
  • How to Cultivate an Authentic Instagram Vibe
    Learn how to connect with your target audience and create an authentic Instagram vibe.

    Our guest is Caroline Addington. Caroline is a scientist who discovered she had a real gift for organic marketing, building community and creating a compelling vibe on Instagram. When her friends who were coaches started asking her how she was doing it, her business was born. She’s deeply in love with helping heart-centered online coaches finally figure out how to attract their ideal clients on Instagram. 

    Key Takeaways:

    • How to create an authentic Instagram and social media vibe
    • How to be authentic and vulnerable on social media
    • How to build relationships without spending all day in someone's DMs
    • Alternatives to cold DM's to make sales
    • How to approach social media with intentionality

    Connect with Caroline

    Website

    Instagram

    Music: Tuesday by Sascha Ende, Music.io

    40 min
  • How to get your Target Audience to Take Action
    learn how to write messaging for your small business that gets your customers and ideal clients to take action.

    This week I chat with Carrie Carr. Carrie helps her clients write engaging emails that drive action. Whether you're launching a course, launching a new product or warming up a cold audience, Carrie can help.

    Key takeaways from today's discussion:

    • Messaging should drive action
    • How to get people to open your emails
    • Crafting intriguing subject lines
    • What you should say to drive sales

    Connect with Carrie

    Website

    Facebook

    Music: Tuesday by Sascha Ende, Music.io

    39 min

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Don't know how to start marketing your small business? Join marketing expert Katlynn Pyatt each week for authentic, accessible and actionable marketing advice. If you're a small business owner who wants to grow and scale your business, and you know marketing is the way to go, but you simply don't know where to start, Start Marketing will change that. Each week, Katlynn and her guests break down a popular marketing strategy and teach you how to put it into action. These short episodes are meant to make marketing actionable and accessible. No more feeling overwhelmed by the marketing jargon and unicorn promises you find when you google "how to market a small business". Katlynn is certified in Marketing Management by the American Marketing Association and holds two certifications from Cornell University; one in business strategy and the other in marketing data and analytics.