by Paul Rose Jr | Oct 27, 2020 | Best Practices, Content Marketing, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Small Business Marketing, Small Business Strategy, TikTok
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...
by Paul Rose Jr | Oct 20, 2020 | Best Practices, Content Marketing, Rants, Small Business Marketing, Small Business Strategy
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...
by Paul Rose Jr | Oct 13, 2020 | Get Strategic, Growth Marketing, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Small Business Marketing, Small Business Strategy
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,...
by Paul Rose Jr | Sep 29, 2020 | Get Strategic, Grow The Dream News, Marketing Training Event, Small Business Marketing, Small Business Strategy, WordPress, Working Remotely
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...
by Paul Rose Jr | Sep 22, 2020 | Content Marketing, Growth Marketing, Small Business Marketing, Visual 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...
by Paul Rose Jr | Sep 15, 2020 | Content Marketing, Get Strategic, Growth Marketing, Small Business Marketing, Small Business Strategy, Social Media, Working Remotely
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...