Startup teams break when roles blur. Workers try to do strategy. Owners get pulled into task work. Managers become firefighters. We’ve been there the past few weeks across Local Service Spotlight (LSS), High-Rise Influence (HRI), and our partner agencies in HVAC and landscaping. This is a snapshot of what we’re fixing—and how you can apply it if you’re building something …
If you’re not following MAA and demonstrating LDT, your strategy is useless.
If you haven’t heard of our 9 triangles framework and how we utilize it, here are some insights into how we plan campaigns and then show others. If you already know, this a good refresher. We use the first triangle on the business level, Optimize & Iterate, on every campaign we touch. The 3 points are Metrics, Analysis, Action, or …
Why VAs and Checklists are KEY to Scaling Small Businesses
The biggest opportunity in digital is local– local businesses are easy to service and easy to get. These dollars come from retail stores, hair salons, attorneys, etc. We believe that, in a few years, digital marketing will be replaced with LOCAL MARKETING. But this shift is not here yet. Why do businesses need digital marketing? The demand side is ignorant. …
How To Go From a One-Man Show to an Agency
If you’re still running the show all by yourself, you’re working hard but not working smart. Maybe it’s time for you to hire people and become an agency.
How to determine your goals and build your personal brand.
We talk a lot about the importance of personal branding- so much that we’ve made it into a guide. But we get this question a lot: What IS personal branding? In a nutshell, your personal brand is your journey to complete your goals, and has your WHY at the nucleus. That is your personal brand– the thing people will go “YOU are …
The world needs a MILLION Aarun’s– you do, too!
You’ll never really be good at something you don’t love. So fine tuning your personal branding is about clarifying the things you’re passionate about. And nothing is a better indicator of passion than where you spend your time, whether you’re paid for it or not. Aarun Rumbaugh (I call him the BOSS), is 21 years old, 6 foot 4 inches …
How to become the “go to” person in your industry
Engaging in speed reading is like that hotdog eating contest every summer at Coney Island. Do you really want to train yourself to eat 50 hot dogs? It’s quantity versus quality– the goal being completion instead of enjoyment. You know those people that boast of being able to read a 400 page book in 27 minutes, claiming they still understood …