Market This: The Marketing Podcast for Small Business Owners

Have you ever felt like you're doing all the right marketing activities but still not seeing the results you expected? Many business owners assume they need more visibility, better social media, or a bigger advertising budget. In reality, the problem is often much deeper. A strong marketing strategy for local business starts with clear messaging, not more tactics. When your audience isn't sure who you help, what you do, or why they should choose you, every marketing effort becomes...

You know you should be posting content. You might even have ideas. But the moment you actually sit down to create something, an hour disappears and you have nothing to show for it. Sound familiar? However, that's not a content problem. It's a clarity problem. In this episode, I'm breaking down exactly why local business owners get stuck in the content spiral and giving you a simple, repeatable framework to get unstuck for good. What we cover: Why content marketing feels so performative ...

On this episode of Market This, I'm breaking down why most websites are quietly losing potential clients and what you need to do to fix it. Most websites aren’t failing because they look bad. They’re failing because they quietly turn visitors away before a conversation starts. Website copywriting is often the hidden reason behind that gap between traffic and enquiries. If your site feels “fine” but isn’t converting, this breakdown changes how you see what’s happening. You’ll learn...

Most local business owners spend weeks perfecting their website's look, the colours, the fonts, the layout, and then slap on a headline like "Helping you achieve financial freedom" and call it done. However, if someone lands on your site and bounces, it's almost never because of the design. It's because your headline didn't stop them. In this episode, I break down why generic headlines are silently killing your website's performance, using a real example from a recent website copy a...

Most local business owners think standing out means louder branding, better design, or more content. But that's not what actually drives attention. The real issue sits deeper, in your messaging strategy, and how clearly your offer lands with the people you actually want to reach. Websites don't fail because the service is weak. They fail because the language is generic, overused, and sounds exactly like every competitor on the block. When your homepage reads like a template, visitor...

A lot of local business owners don’t struggle with marketing, they struggle with staying remembered. And email marketing often gets pushed aside because social media feels faster, easier, and more visible. The thing is, those platforms don’t belong to you. Email marketing changes that. It gives you a direct line to your audience without algorithms deciding who sees you and when. And for a local business, that shift is the difference between being occasionally noticed and consistently bo...

I know you're feeling the pressure to constantly show up on social media. I get it. For a while, it really was one of the easiest ways to get visibility. But the landscape has changed, and if your entire marketing strategy depends on Instagram, you're missing some critical foundations. In this episode, I break down what actually happens when someone in your community needs the kind of service you offer. Spoiler: they're not scrolling your feed, they're Googling you. And when they land on your...

You're posting, emailing, showing up, and it still feels like nobody's paying attention to your local business marketing. Before you blame the algorithm or try another tactic, it might be time to look at what your marketing is actually saying. In this episode, I break down the three foundational things every piece of marketing needs to communicate before any of it actually works, whether it's your website, your social media, or your emails. In this episode, I cover: Why narrowing down w...

Is Your Website Actually Doing Its Job? You're great at what you do, your clients love you, and referrals are coming in. So, why aren't they booking? In this episode, I'm breaking down the three sneaky website gaps that are quietly costing service-based , local business owners money. In this episode, you'll learn: The "who is this for?" gap: why vague, flowery homepage copy is driving warm leads away, and what to say insteadThe "what happens next?" gap: the difference between a call to action...

If you set up your Google Business Profile and haven't touched it since, this episode is for you. A lot of business owners think of their Google Business Profile as a directory listing. Something you fill out once and forget. But if you're a local business, it's one of the most powerful (and free) visibility tools you have. The catch? It only works if you treat it like the strategy it actually is. In this episode, I'm chatting about how your Google Business Profile fits into your broade...

Shannon Vonderach went from wedding photographer to the self-proclaimed Email Queen. The pivot started in 2020 when the world shut down and she discovered what she'd been leaving money on the table by not emailing her list. In this episode, Shannon and I dig into why so many local business owners are sitting on a goldmine of email subscribers and doing absolutely nothing with it and how to change that without overthinking it to death. In this episode: Why you already know what to write (you'r...

There's a lot of marketing advice floating around on the internet. But most of it wasn't written with small business owners in mind. In this episode, I'm breaking down three common pieces of marketing advice you can safely ignore, and what to focus on instead. In this episode, I'm covering: Funnels. Why complicated sales funnels, tripwires, landing pages, and automations are overkill for most small businesses, and what you actually need instead (hint: a good website and an email list go a lon...