Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses

March 11, 2022 By Carrie Gallagher

Marketing Ideas for Attorneys, From an Attorney!

Several years ago I started an LLC in New York State, where new businesses are required to announce themselves in a newspaper for 6 weeks. A print paper. I stuck my head in the sand for a month, then started Googling how to get it done: which newspapers were acceptable, how much it would cost, etc.

Not only was the information hard to find, it turns out that in NYC this is an especially stupid and expensive process. A rude Kings County clerk told me I needed to go downtown for the details, because he’s not allowed to provide them over the phone or through email (“I don’t make the laws, lady”).

Confused about what century I was living in, I went back to Google looking for ways to get out of the publishing obligation. Surely this was just a silly technicality that wouldn’t really affect my business, right?

September 7, 2021 By Carrie Gallagher

Marketing Ideas for Pet Groomers

Hey, neighbor! You put a one-page list of your pet grooming services in my mailbox last week. Problem is, I don’t have a pet. So you wasted paper on me. And many others like me. You also didn’t put a website on your flyer — what’s up with that? I Googled your business name and couldn’t find your site there either; only some reviews on Yelp.

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September 5, 2021 By Carrie Gallagher

Marketing Ideas for Summer Camps

My son was in a fantastic camp this summer. After our experience in 2012 (“It’s terrible! They put us in group timeouts!”), I spent a lot of time researching alternatives. Like most moms, the first stop was Google: “best summer camps in Brooklyn.”

Marketing kudos to the camp we ended up choosing, because their site does show up on page one of Google’s search results (did you know 75% of users never go past the first page?). The problem is they were below the fold, meaning I had to scroll to the bottom.