
Boost your online presence in under five hours by applying five quick digital marketing tactics for small businesses: optimize Google business profile, brand social media, website, and email marketing.
Upload high-quality photos to your Google business profile and optimize composition to boost visibility. Upload as many high-quality photos as possible, including customer images, and study top competitors' photo composition.
learn to choose and place the correct keywords for your business by matching search terms, website copy, and the GMB category, boosting visibility in search results for commercial real estate.
Define your brand by shaping how customers feel: energized, safe, authentic, or fun, then ensure your logo, color palette, and font style reflect that perception for brand optimization.
Explore how to derive a cohesive color palette from your logo using Canva, save document colors, and apply brand-consistent colors across social media, flyers, and websites.
Choose your brand font to establish a consistent visual identity. Use your logo, color palette, and authentic cafe photos in Canva templates to create cohesive social media posts.
Apply the 80/20 rule to social media by identifying the 20% of platforms that yield 80% of results, then choose where customers spend time and establish a sustainable posting schedule.
Identify which social media platform your potential customers use by googling it. Go to Google and type in the platform your customers use.
Avoid chasing trends; pick one platform that fits your strengths, plan content ideas first, prepare gear and editing, then publish authentically to attract attention.
Learn how to optimize your homepage by clearly presenting what you offer, why customers should choose you over competitors, and how to contact you to quickly convert visitors.
Identify why building an email list matters for small businesses, emphasizing ownership beyond social platforms and marketplaces, and harness its reach for effective email marketing.
Email subscribers are warm leads who may convert with ongoing engagement. Emails are free to send and reach customers, unlike social platforms with restricted reach and open rates around 17%.
Choose an affordable email marketing tool such as MailChimp or Main Lite, and set up a simple automated campaign with thoughtful updates rather than pure promotions.
Welcome to the Five things you can do under five hours (2 hours actually) to boost your digital marketing mini-course.
If you are a small business owner struggling to make sales, then you should enrol in this course, as I am sharing quick and easy tips on optimising your digital marketing.
Don't worry; you don't need to know anything about digital marketing. This course is designed for a complete beginner.
In this course, you will learn:
How to optimise your Google business profile
Products & Services
How to pick the correct business category
Importance of keywords
How to optimise your brand so you look more professional
How to create a logo
How to pick the best colour palette & font style for your business
How to stick to your brand
How to do social media marketing
Why you should NOT listen to social media gurus
How to create social media posting schedule
How should you fine-tune your website so you get more leads from your current website
3 main areas you should focus
How to optimise your current website
And finally, a brief introduction to email marketing.
I'm sure you'll love the course and that this course and the strategies you'll learn will improve your business in a brief period. This course is NOT a course on advanced digital marketing strategies but a quick guide on how to quickly improve your current digital marketing efforts.
Tharindu Wijesekara from Lone Leopard Digital Marketing Consultant, Melbourne.