Hello my friends! I am making some changes to the group and want to explain the details. I hope everyone understands the changes, and why I made them. I've run a digital marketing agency since 2012, serving countless contractors, service providers, and local businesses. I was moving my marketing agency away from working with local businesses and more towards influencer marketing... one of the main reasons I created the group. However, while I'll still be offering influencer marketing, I am moving my focus back to local service businesses. Therefore, along with continued posts and suggestions here on social media, I am going to change the name a little, and start posting more strategies and marketing help for service providers and contractors. I know this won't be ideal for some of you, but I hope you'll stick around. I still promise bad jokes and good marketing tips, but this ends up the best move for my business! And, marketing is marketing! Love y'all! Deacon Nick

Some people change direction way too often. I'm guilty myself... and recently spent 3 months working on a wrong turn. Stop switching everything up all the time. A lot of business owners lose all their progress because they can’t stick with something. Change the niche, change the product, change the offer. Here’s the truth: We all want to quit sometimes. At every single level. And the ones that make it are the ones that didn’t give in to that impulse. You can feel the feelings of wanting to quit. Let them pass through you. And then, keep going. Everything you want out of life is on the other side of that!

Our latest contest was for a custom video... yes, I know a lot of you have access to AI's and don't really need it, but these are all extremely well done... the best I've seen tbh. Anyhoo, our winners are @James McDonald , @Philippa Burgess and @William H ! Send me a DM and we'll get it made! You can choose from story videos, where you can have the system write a story based on your prompt, or a video telling facts and such, a promotional video, or a sales story like I use for contractors. Or give me a prompt about something else and let's see what we get! This is truly an incredible AI. (it's not open to the public yet)

@Deacon Nick One tip is to post consistently content that gets the audience to take action or respond. Then reply, build on it ...nurture it.

You might have seen the marketing video I posted in the post seen by clicking here. I'm going to give away THREE custom-created marketing videos, about the topic of your choice. I posted a couple more video examples below, so you can see the quality. Sure, it's AI, but such high-quality. (The system I'm using isn't open to the public yet) Checkout the one of me talking. That's not me, lol. I especially like the one about the belly button, lol. To enter, CREATE A NEW POST in the community sharing either a marketing tip or a win, (something you've done recently that moved you ahead, even slightly). Add your posts either under the category "tips and strategies", or "wins" to be counted. For each post you create, up to 1 a day of each type, you'll get your name tossed into a drawing. At the end of the week, we'll tally up the posts and have a drawing to see who wins! So this is a possible 2 entries a day. In addition, we'll give you an extra 3 names in the hat for the 2 posts that get A- the most comments, and B- the most likes. 👍So the most possible times you can get your name in the hat is 20... twice a day for the week if you post once a day in each category, and an additional 2 entries if your post gets either the most likes or comments. (ack, I'll need a calculator) You can only win once, and the contest ends at the end of the day, Sunday the 8th, server time. (so if it's labeled March 8th or before)