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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · May 20

🎯 Smart marketing = clarity, quality, and preparation. Set clear goals, innovate to stay relevant, and plan for risks before they hit. These essentials help #smallbusinesses grow with confidence.

#SmallBusinessMarketing #MarketingSuccess #SmallBizOwner #Freelancer #HigherEdMarketing

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · May 14

⏰ 5 minutes could save you thousands in monthly marketing spend.

⏳Take this quick quiz to confirm you have what you need before hiring a digital marketing agency or consultant: bit.ly/44TjZbK

#SmallBusiness #MarketingStrategy #DigitalMarketing

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · May 13

Thinking of launching an Instagram for your small biz?

📱 Don’t just post-plan with purpose. Set clear goals & align content with what your audience needs.

Strategy first = results that matter.

Link in Bio!

#SmallBusinessMarketing #InstagramStrategy #freelancers #growyourinstagram

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · May 6

📊 For #SmallBusinessOwners, analytics are your secret weapon.

Use UTM links, build a KPI dashboard, and connect sales + marketing.

Don’t just report—analyze. Clean data = smart strategy = stronger growth.

#MarketingTips #DataDrivenMarketing #SmallBizOwner

Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · May 5

It’s National Small Business Week! 🎉
From May 4–10, we honor the resilience, creativity & dedication of small biz owners across the country.

Here's to building big dreams! 💼👏

#SmallBusinessWeek #sbw2025

Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · May 5

No one is stealing American movie technologies or processes. It’s called international collaboration and it benefits both movie ticket purchasers and the local economies for which production supports. #filmmaking #filmnews #tariffs

Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Apr 30

Struggling with email performance?

📧 The secret isn’t sending more—it’s sending smarter.

Think clean lists, strong subject lines, and smart segmentation.

Let your data guide your next send.

#EmailMarketing #SmallBusiness #MarketingTips

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Apr 29

Getting traffic is just the start. 🔍 What happens after the click is where growth lives.

Test your CTAs, refine your messaging, and smooth the user journey.

Focus on quality clicks that convert.

#SmallBusiness #MarketingTips #DigitalMarketing

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Apr 27

Ava is adorable 🐣

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Apr 23

Are your numbers giving you the full story?
📊 It’s not just about views—it's about what happens next.

Small shifts in timing, messaging, or CTAs can lead to better engagement and conversions.

💡Measure wisely, adjust intentionally.

#SmallBusiness #MarketingStrategy

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Apr 22

📊 MARKETING TIPS for #SmallBusinessOwners

Track KPIs that align with your goals.

👀 Impressions ≠ attention.
🛒 Clicks ≠ sales—optimize your landing pages.
🧭 Review drop-off points.
👉 One clear CTA beats three vague ones.

#MarketingTips #SmallBiz

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Apr 22

GrowthSpurt Strategies is now officially Minority and Women Business Certified in the State of New Jersey! 🙌

GrowthSpurt Strategies is Minority and Women Business Certified in NJ

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · Apr 19

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Apr 20

Wishing you all a peaceful holiday Sunday filled with joy & love rather than nightmares & trauma.

🐰 🥚 🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰

#HappyEaster

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greatmustachio.bsky.social @greatmustachio.bsky.social · Apr 9

Sign up today✏️‼️

It’s free to attend‼️

The Screen Alliance of New Jersey (SANJ) will host the inaugural NJ Film & TV Expo on Thursday, May 1, at Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Apr 9

Very excited for this! Thanks for sharing :)

Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Apr 2

If you intend to scale your consultancy business–or transition from a freelancer to an agency owner–you should consider how you intend to develop a faceless extension of yourself that illustrates your professional values.

#digitalmarketing #smallbusiness #socialmediamarketing #facelessmarketing

Keeping a Trustworthy Face in Your Faceless Marketing

Faceless digital marketing can better scale your content creation but not by sacrificing human connection. Learn how to remain trustworthy.

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Apr 1

Geez 🤯 The future is now. Attended an incredible #AI Workshop at the William Paterson University of New Jersey hosted by Alicia Lyttle (The Queen of AI). #digialmarketing #contentmarketing #smallbusinesses #smallbiz #smallbusinessowner

AI Workshop at William Paterson University of New Jersey College Banner on the Quad.

AI Workshop at William Paterson University of New Jersey Marketing Banner

AI Workshop at William Paterson University of New Jersey Conference Room with Attendees

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Mar 30

Now you don’t have to switch from midjourney to ChatGPT. They launched their image creation feature. openai.com/index/introd...

#ai #digitalmarketing #smallbusiness #smallbizowners #socialmediamarketing #contentmarketing

Introducing 4o Image Generation

At OpenAI, we have long believed image generation should be a primary capability of our language models. That’s why we’ve built our most advanced image generator yet into GPT‑4o. The result—image gene...

openai.com

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Mar 30

How does everyone feel about Google’s new AI Mode? I appreciate that it walks you through follow-up prompting and feels like it’s within the search page of Google (as opposed to opening up Gemini in a new tab).

Also what’s everyone’s process for using AI Mode?

#digitalmarketing #smallbusiness

Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Jan 24

How do you keep your creativity alive? No one-size-fits-all ♥ Interview with BoldJourney.

Full Q&A 👉 boldjourney.com/meet-laura-b...

#digitalmarketing #marketing #marketingstrategy #socialmedia #digitalmarketerstrategiest #socialmediamarketing #smallbusinessowner #contentmarketing

Read the full Q&A with BoldJourney and Laura Bailey-Wickins, owner of GrowthSpurt Strategies

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Jan 7

Tip for #smallbusinessowners re: your #paidad 👇👇

😀 Using positive emotion search terms in your PPC ads will yield 👆 CTR than non-emotive/descriptive keywords. Why? How people feel when searching online impacts what they search and click.

ℹ️ Journal of Marketing (via AMA): doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Positive Emotions During Search Engine Use: How You Feel Impacts What You Search for and Click On - Sarah C. Whitley, Anindita Chakravarty, Pengyuan Wang, 2025

The authors examine how positive incidental emotion influences online search and ad click-through rates. They predict and find that although positive incidental...

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Laura | Digital Marketer | GrowthSpurt Strategies @growthspurtstrategies.com · Dec 13

my first......"sky"?
I guess "post"
!!!!!

a cartoon of a pikachu with its mouth open and the words `` yay '' written on it .

ALT: a cartoon of a pikachu with its mouth open and the words `` yay '' written on it .

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