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Monday, January 20, 2025
​Give These Marketing Strategies a Try in 2025

The new year is the perfect time for beginnings and setting goals. It also makes for good marketing campaigns and changes to your business. There are so many things you can do to provide value for customers and potential customers. If you don’t use this time to try something new, you're leaving money on the table.

LP Chamber

Monday, November 25, 2024
Last-Minute Black Friday Promo Ideas for Small Businesses

Black Friday is this week! Is panic setting in? If you haven't planned a single promotion, and the thought of missing out on the biggest shopping weekend of the year is making your stomach churn, don't worry, you're not alone! Plenty of small businesses find themselves in this situation. But this is no time to sit in a corner worrying. This article can help.

LP Chamber | Christine

Monday, November 11, 2024
How to Win at Content with AI

AI is one of the most efficient tools we’ve seen since the advent of the computer. But if you’re using it to generate content and then just copying and pasting, you’re missing out. And that kind of “laziness” could be costing you customers. Here’s how a couple of quick edits can bring your AI-generated content from meh to aaaamazing.

LP Chamber | Christine

Monday, October 28, 2024
25 Tips to Increase Foot Traffic for Your Business

You have a great business. You offer items/services everyone needs, yet you’re struggling to get people in the door. What can you do? You need traffic to increase sales, whether that’s online or in-person. If your business is struggling to bring in customers, you know that has to change if you’re going to survive. While there are many ways to improve your online traffic (search engine optimization, user experience, etc.), your physical business’ traffic is all about location. But before you go and pack up

LP Chamber | Christine

Monday, September 23, 2024
Fast-Track Trust: How to Win Customers Quickly

Trust is the cornerstone of customer relationships, driving sales and fostering loyalty. Yet, building that trust swiftly, especially in a competitive landscape filled with countless options for consumers, can be hard. Establishing credibility and rapport takes time and effort. (It’s the one thing you can’t buy at Costco.) But strategic actions can accelerate trust building. By focusing on transparency, communication, and consistently exceeding expectations, you can cultivate trust quickly and effectively.

LP Chamber | Christine

Monday, August 5, 2024
Feeling Stuck? Try These Content Ideas for Small Businesses.

Content helps you connect, right? It gives insights into your business, your personality, and your culture. But boy, can it be draining. And as awesome as AI is there are only so many times you can ask it for blog ideas for the exact same audience before it starts to sound the same. So where do you get new content ideas and inspiration to attract and retain customers? And how do you keep your content fresh and relevant? Let’s dig into some sources and strategies to generate, curate, and hybridize content

LP Chamber | Christine Patrick

Monday, July 8, 2024
15+ Creative Partnership Ideas to Boost Customer Engagement and Sales

In my town, businesses of all types and industries are getting into the event business. They’re offering how-to demos, social gatherings, night outs, and a lot more. Best of all, they’re collaborating with some unlikely partners. Using a similar type of collaboration can help you reach new audiences, enhance your offerings, and drive sales. Here are 15 innovative partnership ideas that can benefit small businesses across various industries.

LP Chamber | Member Services

Monday, June 24, 2024
Create a Loyal Following with a Facebook Group for Your Business

Beginning marketers often think a Facebook group is an ideal way to bring their target market together. And while we’re not discounting the truth behind that, most novice businesses make a critical mistake when creating a Facebook group for the first time. Their mistake negatively impacts their ability to engage their target market. And it’s such a common mistake that it needs to be addressed before we give you suggestions on engaging your market through this medium.

LP Chamber | Christine

Monday, June 10, 2024
15+ Questions to Identify Your Ideal Client

If you are in a client services business (especially one where your clients might return over and over), one of the best things you can do to set yourself up for success is to understand who you want to work with and who aligns with your skills and talent. If you’re just starting off, or you’ve fallen on hard times, it’s tempting to work with anyone and everyone. But you’ll end up sabotaging yourself in the long run when you choose to work with the “wrong” clients. After all, there are limited hours in the

LP Chamber | Christine

Monday, May 27, 2024
Sizzling Summer Strategies to Boost Sales

For some businesses, summer is a time of enormous revenue; for others, it can herald a long dry spell. But with a bit of planning and creativity, summer can also be a season of growth and opportunity, no matter what type of business you are in (except maybe snow plowing).

LP Chamber | Christine