Brad Kingsley, CEPA®, CFP® | Certified Value Builder

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How to automate your social media marketing

Have you automated your social media marketing? It’s a work-in-progress still for me as I experiment and learn new things, especially over at the MaximizeYourMoney Financial Coaching site. The social media marketing challenge Honestly, a lot of marketing really isn’t rocket science. Yes, it definitely takes some thought, and oftentimes some creativity, but once messages […]

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customers, entrepreneur, marketing, SEO, small business, Start-up

Social versus Email Marketing

Social media. It’s cheap and easy to get a lot of followers, likes, or whatever. And it feels good to have a big following on social media… it feels like… success. But is it? I already wrote about being aware of vanity metrics and focusing on things that really count – like sales. :) Social […]

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Business, Email, launch, marketing, small business, startups

Graphic Design and Branding for the Creatively Challenged

I’ve talked about the most important pre-launch first step when launching your business, and why customer and market validation, before launch, can save you a fortune. But once you’ve validated the idea and done some planning, at some point you need to think about the brand. And that means a lot more than just your […]

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branding, design, logo, marketing, small business, Startup

Using Google Surveys to Validate Your Idea and Market

Kicking off a survey to validate your market

Want to save yourself a ton of time, money, and headache? Then validate your idea and market fit before getting too tied to your specifics. Easy to say, harder to do, right? I figured you might think that – because I’ve heard it before. Over and over. So here’s just one of several ways to […]

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Business, founders, growth, marketing, sales, small business, Startup, venture

Perform Customer and Market Validation Early

I almost titled this post “Find Your Niche” but as I thought through it, a lot of the content I would have written was about customer and market validation. But let’s start there… Find your niche When providing a service, selling a product, solving a problem, etc. you can’t be everything to everyone. You can’t […]

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customers, lean, marketing, sales, Startup
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About Brad…

Professional:
Certified Business Value Builder
Certified Financial Planner

Previously founder & CEO of OrcsWeb, CloudServers.com, and Cytanium (all sold).

Personal: Christian, husband, father, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and mentor.

Recent Posts

  • The Key to Scaling Up a Service Business
  • The Value of Financial Advice (Updated Research)
  • How to Defer Taxes on up to $55k when Self-Employed
  • How 8 Key Investing Indexes Performed In The Past 10 Years
  • How We Made Our Second Million

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