10 easy steps to simplify your small business

10th July 20196th August 2019

10 easy steps to simplify your small business

Simplify your business - Liz Hall Design

Two things have prompted the idea for this blog, both different but both related.

The first is the fact that I’m on maternity, I’ve added to my brood and I need a business that fits my changed circumstances. I need my business to be easy to run.

The other is my ‘word of the year’, I chose Simplify. My house started to overflow with stuff and I got tired of searching for stuff and tripping over stuff. Stuff I don’t actually need or even want.

As I’ve been sorting through the house, I’ve been going through my office, and it clicked that I needed to simplify my business too. Much of what I’ve been doing in my home life also applies to my business life.

6th November 2018

10 creative ways to help your business stay visible over Christmas

For some businesses the Christmas period is so busy and their perfect time of year. For others, it’s more of a tough slog. They get forgotten about, they’re not really appropriate for Christmas, and business can really slow down or halt altogether.

If this sounds like you (and I’m one of those people), there are lots of things you can do throughout December to keep your business visible and get your customers ready to spend with you when Christmas isn’t all consuming and they have the money to spend again.

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9th May 20188th August 2018

10 reasons to use case studies in your marketing

What’s the best way to show your customers how you can solve their problem?

By showing them how you solved the problem for someone else.

And not only are you showing how you can solve a problem, you’re also giving customers an insight into your little world, how you work and what they can expect from you. Whether it’s a particular way of working or a process you use, they can get to know more about your business and hopefully want to work with you.

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10th April 20188th August 2018

10 things to do with your blog after you hit publish

Blogs are simply the best.

They can help drive traffic to your website and improve your SEO.

People are more likely to trust the information they read on a blog.

And they’re free! (unless you’re super busy then you can pay an expert to write for you)

However, once you’ve spent the time researching and writing and have finally hit the publish button, what next?

Even if you’ve only been blogging a short while, you’ll have very quickly built up a wealth of information that you shouldn’t just forget about.

Let’s see what you can do with it.

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1st November 20178th August 2018

How to create your small business marketing plan

If your marketing plan is something you always think about but never get round to planning, then this is the year all that changes!

Now I’ll be upfront from the start, I’m not going to get into SWOT analysis, target markets, analysing your competitors etc If that’s what you’re after, there’s plenty of articles on Google for you to get your teeth stuck into.

This blog is quite simply a resource to help you plan a simple marketing strategy for the coming year so you can put reminders in your diary of when you need to write and send blogs, schedule social media campaigns, create content for printed materials and when to advertise your products and services. Continue reading “How to create your small business marketing plan”

2nd October 20178th August 2018

16 creative ideas for your email signature

The humble email signature sits at the bottom of the hundreds of emails we send every year but how much thought do we put into it other than the standard logo, contact information and social media icons?

Did I really say hundreds of emails a year? That’s hundreds of opportunities to market your business and get extra exposure where it’s needed.

I’ve put together a list of different things you can add to your email signature to give your business that little extra promotion. Continue reading “16 creative ideas for your email signature”