How To Maximize Your Digital Marketing Budget for the Holiday Season

By Jennie Lyon / November 19, 2024

As we approach the end of the year, you, as an online business owner, are starting to evaluate your business and wonder how to make the most of your remaining digital marketing budget.  Q4 presents unique opportunities for high-impact campaigns, especially with holiday promotions in full swing. The key to maximizing your digital marketing budget for the holiday season is smart budgeting, strategic allocation, and leveraging every marketing dollar to maximize your return on investment (ROI). How? Let’s get into it.  Content Overview: –Prioritize Your Winning Promotions–Invest in Retargeting Campaigns–Use Social Media to Your Advantage–Leverage Your Email List–Diversify Your Content…

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6 Post-Sale Strategies to Grow Your Business AFTER Black Friday is Over

By Jennie Lyon / November 13, 2024

We’ve talked about preparing for your Black Friday and other holiday sales (which hopefully you’ve already started, if not finished), but have you also prepared for your post-sale strategies? Just because someone has already completed a purchase with your business doesn’t mean their lifetime value as a customer stops there. You can continue to nurture and market to your paid customers. After a holiday sale, it is the perfect time to ramp up your digital marketing strategy to take advantage of the Q4 increased spending. You can implement any of these six post-sale strategies to continue to grow your business…

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How To Prioritize Increasing Revenue as an Online Business Owner

By Jennie Lyon / November 5, 2024

With only a few weeks left until the holiday season begins and those end-of-year deadlines close, many of my clients are focusing on increasing their total revenue for 2024.  If you’ve been following me for a while, you might have noticed I’m strategy-focused. I don’t do things just to do them… and I’m constantly looking at my business and trying to find ways to improve and streamline my processes.  Recently, that has included examining what increases my revenue as an online business owner and how I can prioritize those revenue-generating activities in the coming weeks. Is that something you want…

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You Don’t Have to Go Viral to Grow Your Business… Here’s What to Do Instead

By Jennie Lyon / October 29, 2024

Having been in the digital marketing industry for over twenty years, I’ve noticed how the culture of social media changes. With these cultural changes come new requests from clients. In the last couple of years, with the popularity of short-form content, the big question has been, “How can I go viral?” And it’s a fair question. As online businesses, we often think of going viral as the ultimate goal for building an online presence.  After all, who wouldn’t want their content to explode in popularity overnight, reaching millions of potential customers?  But the truth is that going viral isn’t a…

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How to Create a Strategic Social Media Monthly Content Plan

By Jennie Lyon / October 15, 2024

Creating a strategic social media monthly content plan is essential to achieving your business objectives and engaging your target audience. With the ever-changing landscape of social media, it can be difficult to know where to start. We get that. That’s why in today’s episode, I will walk you through the steps of creating a plan that will help you to increase brand awareness, drive website traffic, and generate leads.  Blog Overview:  Define Your Social Media Goals Before creating any content, it is important to define your social media plan’s objectives clearly. This will help to ensure that all of your…

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Maximizing Q4 Profits as an Online Business Owner

By Jennie Lyon / October 8, 2024

Happy October, and more importantly, Happy Q4 to you online business owners!  If you’re wondering why I’m celebrating, online businesses tend to see their best profits in the last three months of the year. Part of this is because of all the wonderful seasonal sales and gift-giving holidays, but I’d argue what’s more important is your strategy for increasing your sales and profits before the year’s end.  So today, on the first day of Q4, let’s talk about how to make these next three months the best your business has seen! Let’s get into it.  Content Overview – Get Ahead of the Game–Specific…

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How I Would Build a Successful Online Business from Scratch

By Jennie Lyon / September 24, 2024

What would happen if I woke up tomorrow and my business was gone? Here’s how I would build a successful online business from scratch if I had to start over! So, I’ve been a digital marketing agency owner for over 20+ years, and needless to say, my business has changed so much in the last two decades. What worked for me fifteen, ten, or even two years ago doesn’t necessarily work today. I’m constantly looking at my business and trying to optimize, refresh, and revamp my current sales funnels, and I always recommend that my clients do the same.   But…

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The Secret to a Successful Online Business that Will Surprise You

By Jennie Lyon / September 3, 2024

Running a successful online business is not for the faint of heart. Building your business from the ground up takes strategy, grit, determination, and work. As business owners, we know work is worth it, but what if you’re missing an essential element holding you back? What if there is a secret to a successful online business? When I talk to online business owners, they usually blame their lack of social media followers, absence of an email list, or even their calendar for their business’s lack of growth. I can usually guess they haven’t done this essential step in the first 15…

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Digital Marketing Trends to Watch as an Online Business Owner in 2024 and Beyond

By Jennie Lyon / August 27, 2024

Sometimes, I think about how much things have changed since I started in the digital marketing industry over 23 years ago. Inevitably, those thoughts always make me think about how things will change in the future.  With social media and the online space being about grabbing attention, the trends are the big things to follow. The trends I’m talking about today are more about how your online business operates in the online space, and they’re ones I believe you need to be watching as an online business owner wanting to scale your business. So, let’s get into it. Content Overview…

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8 Controversial Digital Marketing Opinions

By Jennie / August 22, 2024

First, I want to highlight that this is our 200th blog from Jennie Lyon Digital Marketing… which seems unbelievable. For this 200th blog, I was thinking of doing something different. I decided to share 8 controversial digital marketing opinions I hold as a digital marketing agency owner with over 23 years of experience.  I’ve seen it ALL. Some things are popular right now that I just don’t get the hype for, and some things marketing “gurus” on the internet are sharing that I don’t fully agree with.  Of course, these are just my opinions based on my personal experiences. If you’re…

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