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Should You Start a Podcast for Your Small Business? 

In Tips & Tools by Amber Forbes

Podcasts have been a part of the social scene for years. Nine times out of nine, you could pull a topic out of a hat and there will be a cast on the subject, but all that means is that you most definitely should start a podcast for your business.  Why Should You Start a Podcast For Your Business?  Podcasts …

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Getting Started w/ Visual Storytelling

In Tips & Tools by Amber Forbes

Visual storytelling telling has been a part of your everyday life since the day you were born. In fact, visual stories have been entertaining us, educating us, and engaging us since the dawn of time.  What is visual storytelling? Visual storytelling is a visual narrative or story, told through visual media to engage an audience. Visual stories can be enhanced …

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Focus Your Attention on Customer Retention

In Tips & Tools by Amber Forbes

A new year means new beginnings and businesses tend to get gung ho about gaining new clients, sometimes forgetting about the importance of keeping the customers they already have.  Don’t make the mistake of focusing all of your attention on acquisition when you should be centering on customer retention.  What is customer retention and why is it important?  Customer retention …

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Green Bag’s Annual Marketing Plan Membership

In Tips & Tools by Amber Forbes

An annual marketing plan is a basic need for all businesses.  Here’s why: The ways to convey marketing messages are ever-evolving (think WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook Live, and remember Keek?!?). When these new avenues come about so quickly, marketing messages are often rushed, causing off-kilter branding, errors in delivery, missed opportunities, and lost goals.   A well-thought-out, expertly crafted annual marketing plan …

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How to Highlight Your Holiday Marketing

In Tips & Tools by Amber Forbes

With the holidays abound and ads flowing into everyone’s face from near and afar, you’re probably wondering how to highlight your holiday marketing.   There is one question you need to ask yourself before starting an ad campaign: are you after one-off customers just for the holidays, or are you trying to build relationships with followers who will continually come back …

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Free Tools to Get Your Small Business Holiday Ready

In Tips & Tools by Amber Forbes

*These free tools will get your small biz holiday ready and in tip-top shape just in time for the busy holiday season. The holiday season is right around the corner, and the tips you put into motion RIGHT NOW will have the most impact in the shortest amount of time.  There are myriad small business tools to use, but we’ve …

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Email Marketing Tips

In Tips & Tools by Amber Forbes

Need email marketing tips? Green Bag Designs has you covered.  In a world full of TikToks, Instagram, Facebook, and other various avenues of paid advertising, email marketing still reigns supreme.  At the end of the day, email marketing has an average return on investment (ROI) of $42 for every $1 spent.  Email Marketing Tips If you haven’t yet used email …

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How Do I Get Discovered on Google?

In Tips & Tools by Amber Forbes

How do I get discovered on Google?  It’s the high count query every small business owner, entrepreneur, and growing professional asks on the reg.  The simple answer? The bad news is there is not a quick fix to getting discovered on Google, but the necessary steps to get yourself front and center of your ideal client are easy to execute.  …

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What is a Sales Funnel and How Do They Work?

In Tips & Tools by Amber Forbes

What is a sales funnel? This is a question we get asked every day, and the answer is really quite simple.  A sales funnel is the pathway you lay down to lead the way for prospective clients to purchase your products &/or services.  There are varying models, templates, forms, and formulas different businesses and marketing companies use to form their …

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12 Free Ways to Promote Your Small Business in 2021

In Tips & Tools by Amber Forbes

Our gift to you is 12 free ways to promote your small business in 2021!  Digital marketing is on the brink of a major shift. Can you feel it? Marketing strategies are moving back to where they should have been all along: building relationships with clients, reliable relationships and customer service, 100% client satisfaction, and a wonderful customer experience.  One …