Growing Your business? Don’t Forget These 5 Things

Growing Your business? Don’t Forget These 5 Things Take time to build relationships. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is failing to build relationships with customers. The first thing you are selling is yourself. If they don’t like you, the sale is not going to happen. Stay on the radar. Once you’ve established rapport with customers, find ways […]
Marketing Tip: Is Your Company Celebrating with Your Clients?

Market Tip: Is your company celebrating with your clients? All you party people, let’s make marketing fun again! Plan a simple party, maybe at a wine bar or bistro, or in your living room with great coffee and sweets. Make it an EVENT on Facebook and promote it on your page, your profile and all your […]
Marketing Tip: Save Time with a Social Media Strategy

Marketing Tip: Save Time with a Social Media Strategy Scared of blowing all your time on the social media machine? You want to avoid wasted time when posting in social media and make the most of your efforts, right? Of course! Here is a simple tip on handling your time: When setting your time schedule […]
A special welcome to Elina Bromberg

A special welcome to Elina Bromberg I had a great time working (ok, AND playing some) in NYC this past month that ended with a spectacular evening spent with our newest client – [a special welcome to] Private Jeweler, Elina Bromberg. You can visit her site at www.Ateliereline.com and view her stunning high-end […]
Marketing Tip: Delight your audience with social media!

Marketing Tip: Delight your audience with social media! It’s time to step outside the status quo when speaking to your online audience. Here are 10 great tips to always keep in mind: Be human. Make them feel loved. Capture their heart in the first 30 seconds. Slow down and do it right. Think integration and building […]
The 7 Essential Elements of Effective Social Media Marketing

The SocialVoiceBox is about building awareness and relationships through your social networks. Here is an excellent article by guest blogger Sonia Simone that discusses 7 basic things you need to consider in your overall social media marketing. Enjoy! The 7 Essential Elements of Effective Social Media Marketing by SONIA SIMONE By now you know it’s a bad idea […]
Marketing Tip: Think Large – 5 Out of the Box Marketing Ideas

Marketing Tip #44: Think Large – 5 Out of the Box Marketing Ideas It’s time to pull your head out of your tunnel vision and allow yourself to go where the sky is the limit. Think Large! What have you accomplished this year in your marketing? In your life? Did you do the things you dreamed […]
Marketing Tip: What does your marketing sound like?

Marketing Tip: What does your marketing sound like? Shameless Self Promotion Time: We love what we do here, especially putting our resources to work for our clients. My goal is at Sandy Hibbard Creative is to make your personal brand and your business really shine! We want to ask you this question: What does your marketing […]
Add a Fresh Look to Your Business Cards

Marketing Tip: Add a fresh look to your business cards Unless you have updated your marketing in the last 12 months or so, my bet is that you might need to add a fresh look to your business cards. I am still a big believer in business cards (or calling cards), people keep them (especially […]
Marketing Tip: Video! The Fastest-growing Digital Content Category

Marketing Tip: Video! The Fastest-growing Digital Content Category It’s no secret video is becoming a bigger and bigger part of companies’ inbound marketing strategies. This year alone, we’ve seen Twitter launch video autoplay in our feeds, Facebook give advertisers the option to buy video ads, and the rise of live streaming video. Nowadays, the play button is becoming “the most […]
Marketing Tip: Need a sure delivery? Try the mail!

Marketing Tip: Need a sure delivery? Try the mail! Direct mail is alive and kicking! Despite a general attitude that using the US mail for marketing is from the dinosaur age, it is alive and well. And I agree. There is nothing like getting a well crafted direct mail piece in your mail box. Research […]
Don’t Send Your Marketing Down a One-Way Street

I had an interesting conversation with a marketing executive of a major national chain that I sat next to on a plane last week. As our conversation developed it immediately went to content marketing then to the need for diversity in marketing. Do you realize that even though you have a large following – or […]