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When you’re running a small business, choosing where to invest your marketing energy feels like an extra job, right? Do you focus on social media? Is SEO worth it? Should you run Google Ads? Do you need a brand refresh? And how do you make these decisions when budgets are tight and your personal bandwidth is already stretched? At hasOpt, we know small businesses don’t always have the luxury of unlimited time or resources. That’s why the goal isn’t to “do everything,” it’s to make the most impact with what you have. A smart strategy starts with understanding three things:…

I’ve done a few blog posts regarding RSS feeds and email marketing, including how to send out a freebie campaign, and how to set up a custom RSS feed, as well as how to include featured images in your MailChimp RSS campaign. While these tutorials are helpful, it helps to understand what RSS is and how it can assist you, and then go through a basic setup for hooking RSS into your email marketing campaigns. Well, I’m here to teach you just that!

One helpful marketing tool we constantly try to get our clients to leverage is building marketing mailing lists. Building an email marketing list is a great way to get in direct contact with your customers — and potential customers — and can help you when you’re suffering from poor reach on social media platforms. It’s also a better way to make big announcements that go directly to people’s email. I’m sure you know the benefits of an email marketing list, but building one can be a challenge. Typically, clients import their current customers and stop there. There’s a big opportunity…

We’ve already gone through how to get featured images/blog post images to show in MailChimp with the Featured Image in RSS plugin, but perhaps you don’t want to use a plugin. Maybe you’re looking for a way to edit your RSS feed without putting yet another plugin into your WordPress install. Never fear! We can help guide you through this plugin-less route. It’s actually quite simple, and there’s a few different ways to do it. Let’s take a look!

Sometimes, you start working on something and you start getting really into it and you have a problem with something about it. Then, because you’re already knee deep in it, trying to resolve the issue becomes some big hassle and you just can’t figure it out. So what do you do? You take to Google, you ask your friends, you try the knowledge base for that particular thing you’re trying to troubleshoot. But then… You find out the answer was there right in your face all along.