How to Make Marketing and Sales Easier with Vicki McLeod

August 8, 2016

Digital and Social Media Strategies

Our guest Vicki McLeod is a consultant, personal and business coach, trainer and writer. In the past two years she has trained and mentored more than 130 businesses province-wide in marketing, branding and how to consciously use digital and social media strategies.

Main Street Communications Ltd., Vicki’s company that is owned by her and her husband Ian, is a strategic planning and communications firm based in Greater Vancouver, Canada. In 2013 Main Street was shortlisted by Small Business BC as one of the Top 5 Online Marketers in the province and founder Vicki McLeod was an RBC Women of Influence nominee as a Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year for 2014 & 2015. She was honored as 2014 Business Leader of the Year in Main Street’s home community of Maple Ridge B.C., Canada.

In this episode we discuss…

  • Why great writing is a key to success in the marketing world
  • How being aligned with who you really are helps with your marketing sales
  • And what it means to # UNTREND

Quoting Vicki..

  • “Don’t delay your dream”
  • “The client wants what you have to offer them or they would have hired someone else. Be true to who you are.”
  • “The Internet never forgets”
  • “I always favour hope”
  • “With our social media posts are we contributing to more fear in the world or are we contributing to more help in the world?”
  • “If we’re going to spend so much time on social media, let’s do it in a way that’s meaningful”
  • “Fun has meaning too.”
  • “One of the ways you can cut through the digital noise is by creating meaning”

Selected links form this episode..

  • TOMS Shoes
  • VickiMcLeod.com
  • Main Street Communications
  • Vicki McLeod Instagram
  • Vicki McLeod Facebook
  • #UNTRENDING: A Field Guide to Social Media That Matters

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