Jennifer Zhang started a watch company six months out of college. She was broke and had just quit her full-time job. Within two weeks, she launched a successful Kickstarter campaign and turned a $1K investment into $91K in sales. In this episode, Jennifer will pull the curtain back and share her secrets for pitching journalists, crowd-funding promotion strategies, and how to know when it's time to hire outside marketing help.
Online marketing channels such as email and social media have become so popular many of them now feel saturated. Might it be time for your business to reconsider direct mail? Think postcards, letters, flyers, and even packages.
Cheryl Czach had a comfortable executive-coaching business, serving corporate clients she acquired through word-of-mouth referrals. But a massive disruption in the market meant she needed to rethink everything. Learn how Cheryl began experimenting with marketing and the three changes she made to her social-media posts that caused her engagement to soar.
What’s better than free and useful? At Jottful we use an astounding number of simple, free tools to help us coordinate our team members and market our business. These are our faves.
With more than 350,000 social media followers and a memorable stint on Bravo TV, celebrity stylist and motherhood/fashion/lifestyle expert Ali Levine certainly knows the value of publicity. Ali shares how she got started building her audience and how it propels the growth of her business. Learn how you can use public relations and collaboration to grow your own audience of prospective customers.
Michael Eckstein is a one-man show, delivering “artisanal, grass-fed accounting and business advice.” Learn how Michael uses marketing (and his copywriting superpower) to build a more profitable business, not just a bigger one. He’ll reveal the system that drives his success and the missteps he made along the way — including how he gave up on LinkedIn twice before finally seeing traction.
When the pandemic hit, the design agency CM2 Media lost an alarming 80% of its retainer revenue overnight. The owner, Mark Chyz, knew the business had become complacent and needed a transformative approach to business development. Learn the tactics Mark employed to not only recover all that lost revenue, but to grow the agency to double its previous size.
Nikita Montgomery's "urban beauty oasis" opened a few short months before the Covid-19 pandemic forced business closures. But Niki deployed an Instagram marketing strategy that now drives 90% of the salon's revenues. In this episode, you'll learn how Niki built her online audience and drives appointment bookings.
Cynthia Hackler Flynn is the founder and managing partner of Hackler Flynn & Associates, a Southern California based employment defense law firm. In this episode, you'll learn the process Cynthia went through to get out of the networking game and build the sustainable growth engine that now delivers millions of dollars in annual billings.
Manuel Valencia started his marketing agency when he became a stay-at-home dad. Manny needed the business to be something he could do in the 90 minutes each day that his youngest daughter went down for her afternoon nap. In this episode of Marketing Made Easy by Jottful, you'll learn how he grew the business to the point that his risk-averse wife joined him.