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Top Customer Retention Strategies to Boost Loyalty & Sales

By Raney Day Design | May 13, 2025

As any business owner or marketer will tell you, getting a new customer is fantastic – but keeping them? Now that’s where the magic happens! While new customer acquisition is important, customer retention and loyalty should be your bread and butter. Why? Because it’s far more cost-effective to retain existing…

5 Tools that Make Managing Your Social Media Presence Easier

By Jennifer Sakowski | March 20, 2018

Let’s’ face it.  When it comes to marketing your business, there’s a lot to do – and keep tabs on.  Blogging . . . maintaining your website . . . sending email campaigns, and, of course, managing your social media presence.  That alone can potentially take hours every day.  …

5 Reasons to Repurpose Your Content

By Jennifer Sakowski | February 20, 2018

As a savvy entrepreneur, you know you need to add content marketing to your overall marketing strategy. Not only does content marketing generate more than three times as many leads as tradition outbound marketing, but it also costs 62% less1. But if you’re only creating new content, you’re doing it…

5 Important Things to Check Before Implementing Your Inbound Marketing Strategy

By Jennifer Sakowski | January 16, 2018

Ready to start acting on your 2018 inbound marketing plan? Great! Set yourself up for success by making sure you’ve taken these 5 crucial steps before implementing your inbound marketing strategy.   So you’ve finished developing your 2018 marketing plan. Congratulations! If you’re like you most small business owners, you’ve…

3 Tips to Develop a 2018 Digital Marketing Strategy that Positions You For Growth

By Jennifer Sakowski | December 19, 2017

With 2017 quickly coming to a close, it’s time to work on your 2018 digital marketing strategy. And we’re not talking opening this year’s strategy, changing a few dates, and renaming it ‘‘2018 Online Marketing Plan.’ Nope. Not at all. We want 2018 to be the year you set goals…

Is Your Site Scaring Away Visitors? 3 Tips to Design a Boo-tiful Website

By Jennifer Sakowski | October 31, 2017

Happy Halloween! While you may be enjoying scaring the little ghosts and goblins visiting your house tonight, there’s definitely one group of visitors you don’t want to scare away – your website’s visitors!  And few things will spook them more than a poorly designed site.   In fact, according to…

5 Steps to Develop a Content Marketing Funnel for Your Small Business

By Jennifer Sakowski | September 19, 2017

Did you know that 74% of people choose to do business with the first company to provide valuable and useful content? Or that 52% view more than 8 pieces of content from the company they give their business to?1 Read on and learn how to develop a content marketing funnel…

Improve Your Conversion Rate with Content Funnels

By Jennifer Sakowski | September 5, 2017

Are you satisfied with your conversion rate? If not, you’re certainly not alone. Over 42% of business owners report that converting leads to customers is their biggest challenge. Read on for a great way to improve your conversion rate.   Can you believe yesterday was Labor Day?  Fall will be…