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Small Business Marketing Ideas (For Any Budget)

For one week each spring, “shopping small” means big business.

Small Business Week, happening April 30 through May 6 in 2023, is a prime opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to raise brand awareness about their products or services—and bring customers in the door.

Doing this, however, requires a little outside-the-box thinking. Giving your marketing efforts a local twist is one way to get the word out.

Here’s a list of SMB marketing strategies designed with local businesses in mind.

What is Small Business Week?

Small Business Week is all about highlighting the resilience of local retailers, restaurants, service

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West Virginia’s InnerAction Media Launches StoryMaker, Empowering Small Businesses with AI-Driven Marketing

West Virginia-based InnerAction Media (IAM) recently launched StoryMaker, an Software as a Service (SaaS) application that leverages Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to assist small businesses in the US in creating their ultimate 30-second pitch and other crucial marketing orders on demand.

The cloud-based application is founded on IAM’s proprietary “BrandStory” process. This unique approach curates a business’s marketing data, then employs AI similar to ChatGPT, to generate strategic marketing content. The customized content can be published across various platforms including social media, emails, presentations, and even traditional media outlets.

The software’s genesis can be traced back to November 2022,

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Allied Global Marketing names Denise Parkinson as VP, business development | News

LA-headquartered analysis firm Allied Global Marketing has appointed Denise Parkinson as VP of business development.

Denise Parkinson

Based in London, Parkinson will work with Clint Kendall, Allied’s CEO; Adam Cunningham, chief strategy officer; and Kelly Estrella, chief of marketing operations.

Parkinson is responsible for identifying and driving strategic new businesses to support the company’s continued growth.

With more than 25 years of experience in entertainment marketing, Parkinson is an industry veteran, having worked across media companies, studios and agencies.

Most recently, she served as global entertainment director overseeing business development for OneFootball, a football media platform with more than 85

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Skims Campaign Features ‘White Lotus’ Breakout Stars

Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand, Skims, launched a campaign with stars of “The White Lotus.”
Engagement on the post has outpaced the typical response from fans.
A marketing professor outlines why the campaign works and what entrepreneurs can learn from it.

About six weeks after season two of “The White Lotus” concluded, the fan-favorite actors Simona Tabasco and Beatrice Grannò were featured in a lingerie campaign for Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand, Skims.

On Monday, Kardashian shared images

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How To Overcome Jet Lag

Are you preparing for a vacation and traveling by plane? There are ways to shield your body against jet lag and overcome it, reducing the symptoms that can ruin your vacation.

Why do we get jet lag?

Jet lag occurs when we travel by plane and change two or more time zones, this disrupts the body’s circadian rhythm. The symptoms are a result of the circadian rhythm being detuned. The circadian rhythm is the pattern that our body follows within a 24-hour period. This rhythm essentially determines when it’s time to sleep and when it’s time to wake up. It

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Meta Offers New Business Certification to Showcase Your Facebook and Instagram Marketing Expertise

Digital marketing agencies take note: Meta has launched a new certification for businesses, which will give you another way to showcase your Meta marketing expertise to prospective clients.

The new program aims to highlight businesses whose staff have accumulated a level of knowledge about Meta’s platforms, via its Blueprint training courses.

As explained by Meta:

“A Meta Certified Company is a company or organization that is recognized for their advanced expertise on the Meta Platform. For the first time, we’re offering Certification at the Organizational level, awarded to companies who achieve a threshold of individual Meta Blueprint certifications in

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Sugar And Its Natural Substitutes

Added sugar has been linked to many serious diseases, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Fortunately, there are many ways to sweeten foods without adding sugar. There are many natural sweeteners that people often use instead of sugar. These include coconut sugar, honey, maple syrup and molasses. While these natural sweeteners may contain more nutrients than regular sugar, your body still metabolizes them in the same way.

The natural sweeteners listed below are slightly ‘less bad’ than regular sugar. Nevertheless, they are still forms of sugar.

Why sugar is bad for you

Sugar interferes with your body’s hormones that

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The Drums | Activision Blizzard’s Head Of Business Marketing’s Top 5 Predictions For 2023

As marketers wake up to the fact gaming isn’t to be ignored, Jonathan Stringfield outlines how the space will evolve this year and where attention needs to be directed.

Whereas 2022 signaled a partial return to social normalcy given waning concerns around the pandemic, we enter 2023 with economic abnormality looming. Soaring inflation, crashes in the technology industry and the threat of a more durable recession have caused the broader consumer, marketing and technology landscape to adopt a less optimistic outlook.

And yet, as was the case during the depths of the pandemic, an otherwise negative set of circumstances allows

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