Mums are responsible for $132 billion in spending in Australia every year (GlobalData Insights, 2011).

They are the purchase decision-makers for an incredibly huge range of products and services. Mums not only purchase for themselves, they are generally the ones who are purchasing things for their kids, their husbands and even some of her extended family. 

So how does your small business tap into this incredibly potent purchase power?

Enter Katrina McCarter; founder of marketing and research consultancy Marketing to Mums.  Katrina is an amazing Marketing Strategist, a best-selling author, speaker and Business Advisor, who specialises in helping business owners and brand sell more effectively to the world’s most powerful consumer, Mums.

Honestly, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone else that understands the consumer behaviour of Mums better than Katrina, so of course, she has an abundance of great information to share with you all in this chat.

We talk about the value of the Mum economy to businesses, how Mums are using social media and other technology. Katrina tells us what mistakes we can avoid when it comes to marketing to Mums and touches on some of the differences between Mums based in different locations around the world. Plus, one of Katrina’s latest research projects was around how Mums are feeling and what they are getting up to in isolation and she generously shares some of her key findings of her ISOMUMs report. 

You can connect with Katrina here:

Links:

www.marketingtomums.com.au

www.marketingtomums.com.au/book

www.marketingtomums.com.au/podcast

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrina-mccarter/

www.facebook.com/marketingtomums

[email protected]

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About Jane Hillsdon

I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

I am the founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing and the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

I believe small businesses are the backbone of our nation. When your business grows, it benefits not only you, and your family, it benefits your whole community. Small businesses create a vibrant and connected economy. We employ local people, we donate to local charities and we work together to build resilient and thriving regional communities.

On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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What stops people in their mindless thumb scrolling on social media? Fabulous, amazing, intriguing, energetic and awesome images, that's what.

Don't post average images that just look like what everybody else is posting. Follow these six steps to make sure that every single image of yours create maximum impact in your social media feed. 

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About Jane Hillsdon

I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

I am the founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing and the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

I believe small businesses are the backbone of our nation. When your business grows, it benefits not only you, and your family, it benefits your whole community. Small businesses create a vibrant and connected economy. We employ local people, we donate to local charities and we work together to build resilient and thriving regional communities.

On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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Coming up with a constant stream of compelling content to feed social media channels, webpages, emails and so on is definitely one of the biggest challenges faced by business owners.

Enter Stacy Farrell. Stacy has a strong background in creating content strategies for a wide variety of industries including education, aged care, insurance, manufacturing and the not for profit sector. She spends her working week creating and executing marketing strategies that build, grow and ignite SME’s in competitive marketplaces.

In this chat, Stace talks us through what makes compelling content, she provides a heads up on mistakes to avoid with your small business content and runs through the importance of ensuring that your content is optimised for search engine visibility (or SEO). She even shares a case study of an Aged Care provider who was able to achieve some great results by simply focusing on producing some great content marketing.

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Subscribe to receive weekly small business marketing tips by visiting our website: https://dragonflymarketing.com.au/ 

About Jane Hillsdon

I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

I am the founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing and the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

I believe small businesses are the backbone of our nation. When your business grows, it benefits not only you, and your family, it benefits your whole community. Small businesses create a vibrant and connected economy. We employ local people, we donate to local charities and we work together to build resilient and thriving regional communities.

On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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Inspiring your customers to not just talk about your business, but to RAVE about your business is something that we can influence both by the way we do business and how we apply our marketing.

The difference between a raving fan and a somewhat indifferent customer can be the difference in some serious bottom line revenue. But how do you know if your customers are talking about you. And if they are, what they are saying? There are a couple of ways we can tell. Listen to this episode of #snacktime to find out. :-)

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About Jane Hillsdon

I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

I am the founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing and the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

I believe small businesses are the backbone of our nation. When your business grows, it benefits not only you, and your family, it benefits your whole community. Small businesses create a vibrant and connected economy. We employ local people, we donate to local charities and we work together to build resilient and thriving regional communities.

On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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I’m a HUGE fan of events. I love attending them, I love organising them and most of all, I LOVE how they can bring together businesses and their customers to experience a really rich and engaging interaction.

Events will feature in most of my marketing plans for clients. Whether they be information seminars, industry conferences, networking sessions or annual VIP days where a business takes a bunch of their best clients for an afternoon at the local races, events can be a really powerful way to create engagement and build relationships.

But due to social distance and travel restriction, the events we once knew and loved have transitioned from offline and in-person to online.

This creates tremendous opportunity as it opens up the attendance of events to people based anywhere in the world. It also presents a few challenges – like how do you create the same level of energy and engagement with an online event?

In this episode, we speak with the CEO of Icon Corporate Events; Eyob Yesus. Eyob has been so busy this year working out how to transition his business from providing offline events to virtual events. Eyob has a career spanning more than 15 years in the events industry. He and his team at Icon Corporate events provide corporate event management services for businesses that want to deliver powerful, meaningful and engaging experiences to connect with people. 

In this chat, Eyob shares what events look like right now and how they will likely progress into the future. He shares how we can ensure that we are still leveraging events to achieve our marketing goals, even if we are executing these events online.

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About Jane Hillsdon

I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

I am the founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing and the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

I believe small businesses are the backbone of our nation. When your business grows, it benefits not only you, and your family, it benefits your whole community. Small businesses create a vibrant and connected economy. We employ local people, we donate to local charities and we work together to build resilient and thriving regional communities.

On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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Writing copy for your emails, or your website pages or even some of your social media posts can sometimes be a bit challenging. It's easy to become stuck by overthinking it, or trying to write the perfect first sentence.

I've written marketing copy for my entire career and have developed some great hacks along the way to help overcome writer's block and get in your flow. And in this episode, I share them with you. 

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Subscribe to receive weekly small business marketing tips by visiting our website: https://dragonflymarketing.com.au/ 

About Jane Hillsdon

I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

I am the founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing and the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

I believe small businesses are the backbone of our nation. When your business grows, it benefits not only you, and your family, it benefits your whole community. Small businesses create a vibrant and connected economy. We employ local people, we donate to local charities and we work together to build resilient and thriving regional communities.

On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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Do you have an e-commerce website? Or are you thinking of building one? Maybe you are considering transitioning from offline to online? 

In this episode we speak with ADMA award winning digital marketer, Megan Winter from Unstoppable E-Commerce. Megan’s superpower is creating awesome e-commerce websites. She is passionate about helping purpose-driven product-based businesses create wildly successful online stores. 

Megan shares some of her top tips for transitioning your offline store to an online store. She tells us what you need to do to create a wow-worthy website and reveals which metrics and measurements that small businesses should be monitoring regularly to ensure their e-commerce site is performing.

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Subscribe to receive weekly small business marketing tips by visiting our website: https://dragonflymarketing.com.au/ 

About Jane Hillsdon

I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

I am the founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing and the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

I believe small businesses are the backbone of our nation. When your business grows, it benefits not only you, and your family, it benefits your whole community. Small businesses create a vibrant and connected economy. We employ local people, we donate to local charities and we work together to build resilient and thriving regional communities.

On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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When we only have a small budget to work with, we want to make sure that we are squeezing every marketing touchpoint and opportunity for what it is worth!

So when it comes to your social media marketing, you’ll be pleased to know that there are actually four things that you can do to ensure that your content is amplified on whichever social media channel that you are using for your business.

Join us in the How to do Marketing group in Facebook.

Subscribe to receive weekly small business marketing tips by visiting the Dragonfly Marketing website here.

About Jane Hillsdon

I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

I am the founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing and the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

I believe small businesses are the backbone of our nation. When your business grows, it benefits not only you, and your family, it benefits your whole community. Small businesses create a vibrant and connected economy. We employ local people, we donate to local charities and we work together to build resilient and thriving regional communities.

On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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Your small business website could be getting between 100 and 1000 people visiting it per week. They may have found your website via a search on Google. They could have come across to your site after seeing something you published on Facebook. Or they could have been to a BBQ on the weekend where their mate told them about one of the products that you sell.

So when those visitors get to your website, are you confident they'll understand what your business sells? Will they be inspired and energised from the moment that they land on your home page? Will they be able to tell what makes you different? Will they easily be able to find out how they can buy from you? 

Find out how and why creating a great looking and high performing website is a recommended investment for your small business in this episode featuring a very clever website designer; Jon Hollenberg.

Jon has been developing websites for many, many years with his business Five by Five and along the way, he has worked out how to make sure that a website attracts, engages and converts visitors into customers.

Join us in the How to do Marketing group in Facebook.

Subscribe to receive weekly small business marketing tips by visiting our website: https://dragonflymarketing.com.au/ 

About Jane Hillsdon

I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

I am the founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing and the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

I believe small businesses are the backbone of our nation. When your business grows, it benefits not only you, and your family, it benefits your whole community. Small businesses create a vibrant and connected economy. We employ local people, we donate to local charities and we work together to build resilient and thriving regional communities.

On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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As a small business owner, if you are going to go to the trouble of creating great content to be shared via your social media channels, you want to try and ensure that you can amplify that content as much as you can to the right people.

Well, a way that you can do this for free, is by simply using #hashtags in your posts.

Join us in the How to do Marketing group in Facebook.

Subscribe to receive weekly small business marketing tips by visiting our website: https://dragonflymarketing.com.au/ 

About Jane Hillsdon

I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

I am the founder and Managing Director of Dragonfly Marketing and the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

I believe small businesses are the backbone of our nation. When your business grows, it benefits not only you, and your family, it benefits your whole community. Small businesses create a vibrant and connected economy. We employ local people, we donate to local charities and we work together to build resilient and thriving regional communities.

On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.