How Do You Connect With Your Customers?

It Used To Be That The Loudest And Most Repetitive Was The One Who Got The Business

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That Was Then, And This Is Now!

Technology has changed the way we do everything over the last 20 years, and it has undeniably changed the way we do business...forever. It used to be that the company with the loudest and most repetitive advertising strategies is where consumers' dollars went. Not anymore. The "Yellow Pages" have been replaced with search engine technology and social media has re-defined "word-of-mouth" advertising, just to name two crucial changes in finding customers. Connecting with customers today can seem like an enormous time-consuming set of seemingly unrelated activities. The reality is that connecting with customers today is about gaining customer permission, attraction and having a conversation, not just being the loudest. That means that your marketing activities need to incorporate today's technology more than ever in order to stay in business and to compete in today's world.

Keeping Up With New Technology Can Be Frustrating!

You have a lot on your plate as a business owner today, such as payroll, accounting, and operations. In your day-to-day activities, you serve your existing customers, handle the occasional customer complaint, and deal with inventory and employees. Marketing may be the last thing on your mind, but it should be one of the first things on your mind. It's how you find new customers and how new customers find you. What can you, as a busy business owner, do today to keep growing? Managing an in-house marketing department can give you more work to do instead of less. Doing it yourself also may not be a valid solution for you, because there still are only 24 hours in a day and you probably don't want to spend all of them working. As a business owner, you have to keep customers coming back AND bring in new business to keep the bills paid, to keep the doors open and to add to your personal bottom-line. Puzzle

Today Connecting With Your Customers Requires Many Different Pieces Of The Puzzle!

Do you have an effective website? How do search engines find your web site? If search engines aren't finding your web site, neither are your customers. Are you making the most of social media in connecting with your customers? Do you need artwork, layout and graphic design for your print advertising and marketing projects and campaigns? Do you need web design help to make your web site a more effective web site? Have you considered writing a blog, or need copywriting help? Do you have time to do all of this yourself?

Let's Work Together To Improve Your Efforts And Your Business Results!

My name is Michael Neely and my mission as a Freelance Marketing Consultant is remarkably straightforward. My clients are small and medium-sized companies with challenges and/or staffing challenges. I create value to the Greater Atlanta Metro Area and beyond by:

Providing support to help my clients make the most of their efforts with Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Management, Web Design and Development, Graphic Design, and Freelance Writing.
Providing other firms or agencies with staffing support in the areas of Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Management, Web Design and Development, Graphic Design, and Freelance Writing.

I also offer convenient, flexible billing at competitive rates that are tailored to your project and to your specific needs.

Put My Experience To Work For You!

I have started my own businesses since 1989. I learned how to start a business by "wearing out shoe leather" and meeting people in sales. Gradually, the methods used by previously successful companies became obsolete. Technology gave rise to new competitors, new methods of doing business and new successes. I had to learn and change to get better results. I started my businesses with no outside funding, and if anything needed to get done, I had to do it myself. If I wanted a web site, I had to learn how to create it. If I wanted more people to visit my web sites, I had to learn how to attract more visitors. If technology provided more marketing opportunities, I had to learn the new technology and execute the new techniques. I've learned a lot since then, and I have a great deal of experience in what works and what doesn't work. Every day, I learn new techniques and new technology to help stay ahead of change in today’s rapidly changing business world. By constantly staying ahead of change, I can help you improve your marketing efforts and improve your business results!