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Your Marketing Isn’t Sick, It’s Misdiagnosed
Panicking when leads slow down and sales dry up? Most business owners assume their marketing is sick and rush to fix it by blasting more of the same stuff. More posts, more ads, more offers. But usually, the problem isn’t that your marketing isn’t working. It’s that there’s a bottleneck somewhere that hasn't been diagnosed properly. And every “fix” you try just makes the problem worse. Can you relate? The Symptom vs Diagnosis Trap Imagine visiting your doctor with a stomach a

Russell Smivs
Oct 313 min read


How to Beat Your Local Competition
Hi, it’s Russell. Just a quick one. If you run a local business it’s really easy to beat your competition. I’m about to show you a simple trick that hardly anyone is doing. The only thing you need to do is find the best performing content in your niche. The most viral, the most shared, the most viewed content in whatever niche your business operates in. If you run a gym, find examples of top performing gym videos. If you run a salon, find other salons that have high performin

Russell Smivs
Oct 271 min read


Momentum Solves More Problems Than Overthinking Ever Will
I’ve got an insight for you that’ll help in business. Seems paradoxical, but it’s really not. Here’s what I’ve noticed as someone who builds and tests marketing systems. I get my best results when I’m moving forward. When I’m actively testing new offers, sending outreach, and tweaking campaigns. That’s when I land clients, makes sales for clients and uncover breakthroughs. Sure, that’s also when I take the most hits. Rejections, failed tests, dud campaigns.But they don’t hurt

Russell Smivs
Oct 221 min read


Multitasking Is Hurting Your Marketing Efforts (And what to do instead)
You’re probably a chronic multitasker like I was. Until I read a book once by a guy called Jay Papasan, called The One Thing, that changed everything. You know those days where you’re constantly running from one thing to the next, responding to demands, replying to emails, taking calls and generally feeling productive but at the end of the day you can’t really put your finger on what you've actually achieved? It’s frustrating and the thing is, multitasking is draining and not

Russell Smivs
Oct 212 min read


You Don't Need to Be a Genius Marketer to Win at a Local Level (But you do need this)
I was talking to a friend over the weekend and I told him you don’t need to be a genius marketer to win at a local level as a small business. I told him about one this you do need. And it works in every local market, I guarantee. I know this because it happens all over the world every day, by accident. The difference is as a marketing agency we do it on purpose . So, what’s the strategy? Well, let’s say you’re a local roofer. It doesn’t matter if you are or not, let’s just pr

Russell Smivs
Oct 202 min read


3 Ways To Improve Your Website and Triple Your Conversions
Feeling discouraged that your website isn’t attracting new customers? You’ve spent hours in front of the computer feeling frustrated trying to publish something presentable or you’ve spent good money paying someone else to build one for you. Either way you’re proud of it. It’s your business after all and it’s a defining moment when you finally have an online presence where new customers can find you. Isn't that the point of bringing your business into the digital age? So wher

Russell Smivs
Apr 193 min read


A Simple Way to Write High-Performing Ads That Attract More Customers
If you’ve run ads before and felt frustrated wasting money and getting little to no results this article is for you. I’m about to share a simple way you can attract more attention, get more customers and make more money with every ad you write from here on out. I’ll never forget the first ads I wrote. Actually, I hated every minute. I was new to the game, I didn’t really understand how to write persuasively and my ad budget was tiny. You know what was even worse? I had read a

Russell Smivs
Apr 163 min read
Simple marketing tactics that actually work for local businesses. No fluff, no theory, just proven strategies you can use this week to bring more customers through your door.
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