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Get More Sleep & Other Entrepreneurial Self-Care Tips
In case you’re reading this years from now and need some perspective, we are now almost 8 months into a very muddled nationwide shut down of many businesses due to a global pandemic. And as I sit here writing this, we’re waiting on the results from one of the closest...
How to Streamline the Content Approval Process
You’ve done your research, written compelling copy, studiously put all the pieces together… And now you wait. For a day, a week, maybe a month or more! If you’ve never been subcontracted to assist with another business’ project, you may not even be aware of it. If...
Where Does Creating Consistent Content Start?
When we first started teaching strategic online marketing to small businesses and entrepreneurs, Internet 2.0 was just starting to develop. Everyone wanted to rank at the top of search engines, because that was how online customers found you. Even though only about...
How Buying Content from the Wrong Company Can Cost You More Than You Think
Recently, I was browsing some content from a potential client and found some very familiar text, with a stock photo I knew I’d seen somewhere else. Thankfully, it wasn’t something I had written, although that’s happened before. But the words and photo were close...
In a World Where Content is King, Data is the Throne
You may have heard the news recently that Disney will release the latest Pixar film, Soul, to their streaming platform around Christmas time. Unlike Mulan, this one won’t require Disney+ members to pay an additional fee. It’ll just show up in their available feed,...
How to Tell if Your Website Has Been Hacked
You’re plugging along, growing the online portion of your business. It's not going as fast as you’d like – but then whose business is? Then one day it happens – a spike in traffic. And it continues for days – lots more traffic, but the same amount of conversions....
What is #StrategyStream?
There’s a good chance that if you’re reading this you’ve seen some of our social media posts or the video highlighting our latest initiative, #StrategyStream. We here at Grow the Dream decided that in the midst of the continuing slow down, if not stoppage, of so many...
How to Visualize the Future of Search
In the 1920’s, Fred R. Barnard, in a scene right out of Mad Men, took a turn of phrase discussed by newspaper editors two decades earlier and turned it into a cultural phenomenon. Attributing the words to Confucius and other Eastern philosophers, Barnard...
Not Crippled by Coronavirus – Why NOW is the Time to Accelerate Your Strategic Marketing
Back in 2008, we made some waves in the online business community when our fearless leader used the term “recession” in a featured article he wrote that was sent out by Zig Ziglar. Even though no one would argue that we weren’t in a period of economic down turn, it...
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