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Benefits of Outsourcing Your Marketing to an Agency
As women entrepreneurs, we wear multiple hats. While it's admirable to handle various aspects of your business, this often leads to burn-out. In this blog post, we'll explore the undeniable power of outsourcing your marketing to a specialized agency and how it can...
Integrating Marketing Tasks into Your Daily Routine
In the world of entrepreneurship, finding a balance between work and personal life can seem impossible. However, rather than striving for a perfect equilibrium, the key lies in creating an integration between your business and personal responsibilities. I like to call...
Repurpose Content Like a Pro
It’s no secret that I LOVE to repurpose content. I believe content repurposing should be a part of your content marketing strategy. We all consume content differently so you could be missing out on potential leads. In today's digital age, creating fresh and engaging...
Unleashing the Power of Social Media Marketing
In a digital landscape bustling with possibilities, it's crystal clear why coaches and financial professionals need to embrace the world of social media marketing. By simplifying your marketing, you're setting the stage to amplify your impact and reach. A...
Video Marketing Tips for Business Owners
Video marketing is no longer an option, but rather a necessity for entrepreneurs. The good news is that even for those who may not want to be on camera, there are ways to create engaging video content to help you grow your engagement, nurture your leads and close...
How to Use LinkedIn for Your Business
As a business owner, you've likely seen many in the industry share their knowledge and expertise on LinkedIn. With over 190 million users in the U.S. alone, LinkedIn presents an immense networking and lead-generation opportunity for financial professionals. ...
The Benefits of Hiring a Marketing Agency
Marketing in all forms is crucial for attracting new clients and growing your business. Since marketing can be complex and time-consuming, it requires a lot of expertise and experience to get it right; that’s why it's essential to consider outsourcing. In this blog...
How to Keep Sustainable Habits on Instagram
Instagram is a very popular social media platform, especially among businesses, lifestyle brands, entrepreneurs, influencers, and bloggers. It has a large user base, which is always growing. For many, using Instagram for their business is a no-brainer, but many find...
How to Simplify Your Marketing In 2023
Is your marketing strategy ready for 2023? Each year, businesses try to stay up-to-date on the latest marketing trends and techniques. We all know that it can be easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of trying to keep up with everything. With so many changes...
Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
Did this post remind you of Easter? It’s December so it’s reminding us that Spring is around the corner. Just like we all have our favorite season, we all have our favorite marketing channel. For us here at Simplified Marketing Services this channel is Social Media....
Get More Story Views on Instagram
Stories are our favorite part of Instagram. Stories are where we see the behind-the-scenes in people's businesses. Stories are where we get to know people outside of their business. Stories is where you can post and it’s gone in 24 hours so you can be a bit more...
4 Parts of Instagram That Are Seldomnly Discussed
There are so many parts of Instagram that we feel are seldmonly discussed. We all know about stories, bio, feed, profile, etc. but what about how to keep your account secure, how to stop bots, and how to get music that everyone is getting but you aren’t? We are going...
Simplify Your Social Media Content
We are all about simplifying your business hence our name, Simplified Marketing Services. Content creation takes a lot of work. You have to think about what to create, then create the graphic, write the copy, do hashtag research, then schedule. Then there are videos...
Step-by-step Guide To Auditing Your Instagram
Every quarter we like to audit not only our social media channels but also our clients, especially Instagram. It’s a great time to make sure links work, update photos, look at the aesthetics of the feed, look over our bio and so much more. When we are doing audits we...
Roadmap to Repurposing Your Content
The number one reason people aren’t consistent on social media is that they are burnt out from creating so much content. One way to not feel burnt out with social media is to repurpose your content. Repurposing Content is Part of Your Content Marketing Strategy...
4 Benefits to Working with an Agency
How could a VA agency benefit my business? VA agencies offer many benefits when it comes time to outsource some of your busy work. From top-knotch, qualified VAs to an easy transition process, a VA agency has a variety of ways it can help your business prosper. If you...
Benefits to Content Repurposing
Generating content doesn’t have to be a lot of work, time, and money. If you are falling into this pitfall, there’s a much better way to craft your messages and increase your audience influence. Time and money are valuable assets that you don’t want to be wasting; a...
When to Outsource in Your Business
A question I see often is “when should I outsource.” This is going to be different for everyone however there are signs you are ready to outsource. You’re Doing Repetitive Tasks We all have those repetitive tasks in our business. These repetitive tasks are...
3 Myths On Outsourcing in Your Business
There is a lot of fear when it comes to outsourcing and trust me I get it. We built our business from the ground up so to give some control over to someone else is nerve wracking to say the least. What if they mess things up, what if they delete something, what if...
Outsource to a Social Media Manager or Virtual Assistant
Do you know if you need a Social Media Manager, a Virtual Assistant or both? What is the difference? I run both a Virtual Assistant and Social Media Management agency. Why don’t I just say, “I run a Virtual Assistant Agency?” “Why do I put both?”Let’s dig a little...
How to Know it’s Time To Outsource
Business is booming, and you just can’t believe how well things are going! People love what you have to offer. Your schedule is overbooked, and you’re so grateful and excited to have a profitable business that you love.What you don’t love, though, is that there are...
Leverage Your Business Using Facebook
Facebook is a fantastic social media tool to boost marketing for your business. With almost 3 billion users, this platform has a wide reach around the world. Users can connect with each other, find events to participate in, join groups of like-minded people, purchase...
5 Ways to Increase Your Engagement
If you have a business then you probably already know how effective it is to use social media to promote your products or services. According to Hootsuite.com, “200 million Instagram users visit at least one business profile daily.” Those numbers are wild, right? This...
5 Social Media Mistakes You are Making
Last month I shared my 6 tips to help attract your ideal clients, but this month I want to encourage you to take inventory of what you’re currently doing and make sure you’re playing nice with the algorithm so your content is being shown to the right people. I’ve been...
Attracting Your Ideal Client on Social Media
As a business owner, you likely know how important it is to have a strong presence across social media platforms so you can find and market yourself to potential clients. When it comes down to creating content and finding a strategy that actually gets your message in...
Productivity Hacks to Becoming More Productive
The new year is here and it is time to start back to work and crushing our goals for 2021. If you’re still recovering from the weird week between Christmas and New Years, where the day of the week is just as irrelevant as that pair of jeans in your closet that you...
Resources and Tools to Grow Your Business
I know I’m not the only one who is grateful that we are at the end of 2020, the wildest year yet. For most people, this year had a steep learning curve that really challenged the way that we do business and life overall. There’s no denying that we all learned a thing...
Importance of Resting as a Business Owner
The past few months (well, year, if we are being honest!) has been absolutely chaotic. If you’re anything like me, you’ve likely been trying to stay as busy as possible to keep yourself occupied through the pandemic and general craziness of the world and you might be...
5 Business Apps to Simplify Your Business
As a business owner myself, I know how important it is to stay organized and on top of things. Back in the day, paper planners and notebooks were all that we had to sort out the inner workings of our businesses and keep all of our thoughts organized. Luckily today,...
Keys to a More Successful Business
Are you a small business owner hoping to get more organized? Do you own a corporation and want to see more productivity from employees? Have you been searching for ways to simplify your business while keeping your productivity moving in a positive direction? My...
What or Who is a Social Media Manager
Why is Social Media a big deal?Have you been wondering why social media is such a big deal? Maybe you’re wondering why you, as a business owner, need to have a social media presence? Well, let me share with you 3 reasons your business should be on social media and why...
Benefits of Outsourcing in Your Business
When it comes to starting your own business, you likely start off wearing many hats. You are the visionary, the planner, the integrator, and the implementer all at once. It doesn’t take long before trying to juggle all of these roles begin to take a toll on you and...
Get Back Your Day Through Task Batching
What is Task Batching?A great way to improve productivity is through Task Batching. What is Task Batching? Task batching is focusing on a group of tasks and doing them together. When you say “I am running errands.” Are you doing all your errands all at once or are you...
Simplify Your Morning Routine
Depending on the season of my life, my morning routine can vary widely. Some seasons are slow moving, taking each day as it comes. Right now, however, it’s back to school time in my house. This means that my morning routine looks a bit different from the last 6 months...
Importance of Time Blocking Your Day
It’s September. If you are a mom this means that your kids are going back to school, or they may have just gone back to school last month. “Going” back to school can mean virtually or physically in a school; either way with all the changes 2020 has brought us, things...