About Marketing Starts Here
Over the years I’ve worked with all kinds of businesses: local shops, service providers, wellness practitioners, people running things on their own. And I keep seeing the same thing. Good people, doing good work, feeling scattered and a little lost when it comes to their marketing. Not because they’re bad at it. Usually it’s because nobody ever sat down and actually helped them build something that holds it all together.
That’s the whole reason Marketing Starts Here exists.
Media’s been my world since 1990. Seventeen years in television news, ten of those at CTV News, plus time as a newspaper journalist, an event manager, and a Realtor. I spent fourteen years volunteering with a community theatre group too, doing their marketing.
I started my first business, The Social Link, in 2015, teaching small business owners how to use Facebook for their business. It grew into something bigger than that, and by 2018 it had become Marketing Starts Here.
Today, Marketing Starts Here provides marketing strategy, planning and ongoing support for small business owners. That includes marketing reviews and roadmaps, practical marketing plans, ongoing guidance and part-time marketing management.
I’m based in St. Marys, Ontario, and work with small businesses throughout Southwestern Ontario, including Stratford, Sarnia and surrounding communities, as well as businesses operating online.
Here’s what I believe: marketing doesn’t need to be everywhere all at once. It just needs to actually reach the people who matter to your business, and do that well. Clarity helps. Consistency helps more than people think. And usually, the business owner already knows more than they give themselves credit for. They need some structure around it.
If your marketing feels scattered, whether that’s inconsistent posting, an email list gathering dust or a website that still describes an older version of your business, that’s exactly where I can help.
If that sounds like where you’re at, I’d love to hear what’s going on.
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