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Have you spent endless hours researching and watching marketing videos without taking action?  Aren’t you tired of trying to figure it out?

The one thing to fix next, not a hundred things to worry about.

I built MerakiBz to do what most marketing tools don’t. Instead of handing you a list of problems, it tells you the single most valuable thing to work on right now, why it matters, and exactly how to do it.

No more scrolling through course after course hoping something applies to your business. I look at what you’re working with and tell you exactly where to start, then walk you through it step by step.

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Unlocking the Power of Copywriting: Boosting Social Media Performance
Twitter For Business Courses
Unlocking the Power of Copywriting: Boosting Social Media Performance
Facebook Marketing
Ecommerce Marketing
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Unlock the full potential of your marketing efforts with MerakiBz’s expert resources and tools. From customizable marketing campaigns and in-depth case studies to stunning social media templates and an intuitive social media calendar, MerakiBz empowers you with everything you need to achieve marketing success.

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Marketing Instructions

Unlock your business’s true potential with our extensive library of digital marketing and SEO Instructions. From beginner to advanced levels, we cover everything you need to know to grow your online presence and drive traffic to your website and social media channels.

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Marketing Campaigns

Take your marketing strategy to the next level by adapting one of our hundreds of case studies to create your next campaign. With MerakiBz, you’ll have access to a wealth of proven marketing strategies and techniques that can be tailored specifically to your business, ensuring optimal results and maximum impact.

Exclusive Templates and Checklists

Stay organized and on track with our ready-to-use templates and checklists. From social media post templates to content planning checklists, we’ve got everything you need to streamline your marketing efforts.

How to create a brand identity

Expert Coaching and Support

I’ve spent over 25 years in digital marketing and SEO, and I’m here to guide you through it directly, not a call center, not a rotating account manager, just direct, personalized support when you get stuck.

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Motivation and Daily Tips

Stay motivated and focused with our daily tips and advice. We’ll help you develop positive habits and maintain momentum as you work towards growing your online business.

How to create and run successful social media advertising campaigns?

Comprehensive Social Media Calendar

Stay organized and plan your social media content like a pro with our user-friendly social media calendar. Schedule your posts in advance, track important events and holidays, and ensure your content is consistently published at optimal times for maximum visibility and engagement.

step-by-step guide on how to use social media for local business marketing, along with an action step checklist and a pro tip:

Customizable Social Media Templates

Elevate your brand’s online presence with our professionally designed, customizable social media templates. Create visually appealing and consistent content across all your social media channels with ease, capturing your audience’s attention and boosting engagement.

How to use Google My Business to boost local visibility?

Creative Content Ideas

Never run out of ideas for your social media posts again! MerakiBz provides you with a wealth of content suggestions, helping you keep your social media feeds fresh, exciting, and engaging. From trending topics to industry-specific ideas, we’ve got you covered.

Built from real experience, not a generic checklist

Every recommendation is checked before it reaches you.

I review what the system finds myself before you ever see it, so what you get is grounded in what actually works for a business like yours, not a one-size-fits-all playbook.

No One Cares as Much About Your Business as You!

We are passionate about helping businesses improve their online presence, bring in more customers, and provide a boost to their online branding.

MerakiBz is here to help you put a piece of your soul, creativity, and love into your business.

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MerakiBz DIY Marketing Training:Cost-Effective Solution

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Engaging a marketing agency can be costly, and your business may be lost among countless clients receiving generic marketing strategies. Remember, no one cares about your business as much as you do! With MerakiBz, we equip you with the processes and tools to market your business just like the big brands do.

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Stop spending your weekends scouring the internet for instructions that may not even apply to your business. I tell you the one thing worth doing next and exactly how to do it, so your time goes into fixing things instead of researching them

MerakiBz DIY Marketing Training: Drive Traffic and Grow Your Business

 

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Build a Foundation  – Grow Your Business

A strong online presence matters whether you’re online-only or brick-and-mortar, but growth doesn’t come from doing everything at once. I show you exactly what to fix first, and each fix moves the number that actually matters for your business.

Sample chart showing organic clicks to a service page increasing after fixing the title tag, adding schema markup, and improving page speed

I work directly with business owners to figure out what actually moves their business forward, then walk them through exactly how to do it.

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  • Every recommendation comes from a direct, personal review, not a generic course
  • Clear reasoning and exact instructions, so you’re never guessing what to do next
  • Confirmation that it actually worked, not just a task marked done

MerakiBz has been a great help for my small business.

The affordable information and resources they provide have been exactly what we needed to build and grow our business online. The step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and have allowed us to implement digital marketing strategies ourselves, which has saved us a lot of money. I would highly recommend Merakibz to any business owner looking for an affordable, reliable source of information and resources for growing their business online.

Cal R.

MerakiBz has been a huge help to my business!

I was struggling to find affordable information and resources needed to build and grow my business online, but MerakiBz makes it all so easy. Thank you for all the great advice and support!

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They provide affordable information and resources needed to build and grow your business online. The instructions are easy to follow and I was able to implement them as I went. Highly recommend!

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MerakiBz is amazing

They provide affordable information and resources that businesses need to build and grow their business online. The instructions are easy-to-follow and the team is very responsive if you have any questions. I highly recommend MerakiBz for your digital marketing needs!

Seth R. 

I highly recommend using MerakiBz for all your online marketing needs

The staff is incredibly helpful and knowledgeable, and they provide affordable instruction that get great results.. Thank you, MerakiBz, for helping me grow my business 

Monica D.

Merakibz has been a huge help to me in getting my business online.

The resources and information they provide are affordable and easy to follow, making it a breeze to build and grow my business. I would highly recommend Merakibz to any business owner looking for help in getting their business online!

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If you’re looking for affordable, quality information and resources to help build and grow your business online, MerakiBz is the perfect solution. Their Digital Marketing How-To Instructions are easy to follow and will help you take your business to the next level. I highly recommend them!

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I'm thoroughly impressed with MerakiBz

 I’m a beginner when it comes to online marketing and their digital marketing how-to instructions are easy to follow and helped me get started quickly. Their customer service is excellent, too – they’re always happy to help and answer any questions I have. Highly recommend!

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Understanding Digital Marketing and Its Importance for Small Businesses

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How Step-by-Step Marketing Guides Can Empower Your DIY Marketing Efforts

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Growing Your Email List: Lead Magnet Ideas and List Building Tips

Want to grow your subscriber list this year? 📈 Lead magnets are key! This guide explores effective types of lead magnets, promotion strategies across channels, landing page tips, and more ways to capture emails and build your audience. With valuable content offers and optimization, you can quickly expand your email reach. Let your list work for you in 2023!

Understanding Your Audience: Creating Detailed Buyer Personas

Who’s in your target audience? Generic “customers” won’t cut it. This guide explores how to create detailed buyer personas to truly understand your customers’ needs. Learn how to identify audience segments, build out profiles with demographics/goals/preferences, use personas to inform marketing strategy, and keep them updated over time. With robust personas guiding your content and messaging, you can craft marketing that deeply resonates. Get to know your audience and boost results!

Analytics and Reporting: Measuring Your Marketing ROI

How well is your #marketing actually performing? Measurement is critical. This guide explores how to leverage analytics across channels like website, social, email, and ads to evaluate your ROI. Learn how to set KPIs, track key data, create reporting dashboards, and use insights to make optimizations. Don’t rely on guesses – let data guide your marketing decisions and budget for real impact!

Video Marketing for Dummies: A Step-by-Step Guide

Looking to add video to your 2023 marketing mix but not sure where to start? This comprehensive guide breaks down a step-by-step blueprint for video marketing success. Learn how to set goals, research your audience, choose platforms, optimize videos, promote your content, and track performance. Whether you’re just getting started with video or want to improve your existing efforts, this beginner’s guide provides practical tips and strategies for driving real results. Boost your video marketing knowledge and skills today!

Developing an Effective Social Media Marketing Plan for your Business

Want to take your social media presence to the next level this year? Developing a strategic social media marketing plan is key. This article outlines a step-by-step guide to creating a documented plan tailored to your business goals, audiences, and resources. Learn how to set objectives, audit your current accounts, determine core platforms, map content, build engagement, and track performance. With the right plan, you can focus your efforts on the social activities that deliver real ROI! Boost your social media impact in 2023 with a pro tips.

Making the Most of Your Marketing Budget: Tips for Small Business Owners

Stretching your marketing dollars as a small business isn’t easy. This article explores tactics to maximize your budget for the best ROI. Learn how to audit your spend, focus on digital channels, optimize low-cost efforts like social media, and use data to identify winning strategies. With some strategic planning, you can get an outsized impact even from modest budgets. Read on for actionable tips to start reaching your marketing goals without breaking the bank!

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MerakiBz Marketing Course Examples

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How to setup instagram Business Page
How to setup a Pinterest Business Page
How to Set Up Facebook for Business
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DIY Marketing Guides

Follow-Along Walkthroughs 

Clear Easy-to-Follow Instructions

Every recommendation comes with the exact steps to follow and a way to check it’s done right, not just a template you’re left to figure out on your own.

Digital Marketing Topics Covered by MerakiBz’s

Guides

Building Your Brand

Building a brand Your brand is more than a logo; it’s the answer to what you do, who you do it for, and why someone should pick you over the business down the street. This guide walks through defining your positioning and message so it stays consistent everywhere your business shows up online.

Digital Marketing Basics

If you’re starting from zero, this is where to begin, the core concepts behind SEO, social, and paid marketing without the jargon. You’ll come away knowing which channels actually matter for a business like yours before you spend money on any of them.

Digital Marketing Strategy

A strategy ties your channels together instead of running each one in isolation. This guide covers building a real marketing plan with specific campaigns, not just a list of tactics to try one at a time.

SEO For Beginners

SEO can feel like a moving target. This breaks it down to the handful of things that actually move rankings for a small business, and where to focus first.

On-Page SEO

On-page SEO is everything you control directly on your own site, titles, headings, content structure. This guide covers the specific elements worth fixing first and how to know if they’re set up correctly.

Advanced SEO

Once the fundamentals are handled, this covers what separates sites that plateau from ones that keep climbing, technical depth, content strategy, and competitive positioning.

 

 

Technical SEO

Technical SEO is about whether Google can actually crawl, index, and understand your site in the first place, no amount of good content fixes a site Google can’t read properly. This guide covers auditing and fixing the technical side.

Keyword Research

Keyword research tells you what people are actually searching for, in their own words, before you write a single page. This guide covers finding the terms worth targeting and matching them to the right page on your site.

SEO Strategy

SEO strategy is sequencing, deciding what to tackle first, second, and third instead of trying everything at once. This guide covers building that plan around your specific business and goals.

Link Building & Off-Page SEO

Link building is getting other sites to point back to yours, still one of the strongest signals Google uses to judge authority. This guide covers realistic, sustainable ways to earn links without shortcuts that put your site at risk.

Social Media Setup

Social Media Business Profile Setup. Getting your business set up correctly on social media matters more than people expect; a half-finished profile costs you credibility before someone even reads a post. This guide covers setting up business profiles properly across the platforms that matter for you.

Content Marketing Basics

Content marketing is showing up consistently with material your audience actually wants, not just posting to post. This guide covers planning content that supports what you’re actually trying to sell.

Facebook Marketing

Facebook is still where a lot of local and small businesses reach their audience directly. This guide covers building a real presence there, organic posting, engagement, and the basics of running ads.

Content Writing

Good content writing means writing for the person reading it first and the search engine second, in that order. This guide covers structuring content so it’s genuinely useful and still easy for Google to understand.

Facebook Ads

Facebook ads can work well on a small budget if they’re targeted correctly and burn money fast if they’re not. This guide covers setting up your first campaigns and avoiding the most common ways businesses waste ad spend.

Email Marketing

Email is one of the few channels you actually own, no algorithm decides who sees it. This guide covers building campaigns that turn subscribers into customers instead of getting ignored or unsubscribed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Email List Building

An email list is only valuable if people actually want to be on it. This guide covers building one the right way, with real opt-ins and offers people are glad to give their email addresses for.

Email Marketing Automation

Automation means the right email goes out at the right moment without you sitting down to send it every time. This guide covers setting up sequences that work in the background while you run your business.

Image Optimization

Unoptimized images are one of the most common reasons a site loads slowly, and slow sites lose both visitors and rankings. This guide covers compressing and naming images correctly without losing quality.

Structured Data & Schema

Schema markup is code that tells search engines exactly what your content means, hours, reviews, and products are, not just what it says. This guide covers adding the schema types that actually earn better search results.

Google Analytics

You can’t fix what you’re not measuring. This guide covers setting up Google Analytics correctly and reading the handful of reports that actually tell you what’s working.

Local SEO

Local SEO is what gets a brick-and-mortar or service-area business found by people nearby who are ready to buy. This guide covers the specific factors that matter for local visibility, separate from general SEO.

International SEO

If you’re targeting more than one country or language, standard SEO advice stops being enough. This guide covers the technical setup that tells search engines which audience each version of your site is for.

SEO Tools & Services

The right tool can save hours, the wrong one can waste a subscription fee on data you never look at. This guide covers which tools are actually worth paying for at different stages of growth.

eCommerce SEO

Online stores have SEO challenges general sites don’t: product pages, category structure, and thin content at scale. This guide covers the specific tactics that move rankings for a store, not just a blog.

Social Media Campaigns

A campaign is more than a few posts; it’s a coordinated push toward a specific goal with a start and an end. This guide covers planning and running one from idea to results.

Social Media Strategy

Strategy is deciding which platforms deserve your time and what you’re actually trying to accomplish on each one before you post anything. This guide covers building that plan instead of posting reactively.

Building a Basic WordPress Website

If you don’t have a website yet, or the one you have needs rebuilding, this covers getting a basic WordPress site up correctly from the start. You’ll learn the setup choices that are much harder to fix later than to get right the first time.

Building Your Brand

Brand building is to generate awareness about your business using strategies and campaigns with the goal of creating a unique and lasting image in the marketplace.

Facebook For Business Marketing

This is the deeper follow-up to Facebook Marketing, covering more advanced tactics like ad creative, retargeting, and reading your Insights data to know what’s actually working. Facebook Marketing strategy.

Instagram Marketing For Business

Instagram rewards consistency and visual quality more than almost any other platform. This guide covers setting up your business profile and building content that actually reaches new people, not just your existing followers.

Snapchat for Business Marketing

Snapchat reaches an audience most other platforms don’t, useful if that’s genuinely where your customers are. This guide covers setting up a business presence and the ad formats worth testing.

LinkedIn Business Marketing

LinkedIn matters most for B2B businesses and anyone selling to other professionals rather than directly to consumers. This guide covers building a presence that reaches decision-makers, not just connections.

 

Pinterest Marketing For Business

Pinterest works differently from other platforms, people use it to plan purchases, not just scroll. This guide covers creating pins that drive real traffic and sales, not just saves.

TikTok for Business Marketing

TikTok’s reach for a new account is still better than almost any other platform if you understand how the algorithm actually surfaces content. This guide covers getting started and what separates videos that get seen from ones that don’t.

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