843: Putting Marketing as a Priority for Your Business with Laura Rubinstein Founder and Owner of Social Buzz Club

Laura Rubinstein is the Founder of Social Buzz Club and an award winning social media & marketing strategist. She has optimized marketing plans for over 1,000 small businesses and is creator of the Social Media Blast Off course. Laura is the author of the bestselling book Social Media Myths Busted.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

Oprah

When business started difficulties overcame:

“I had to get over my fear of rejection, that was big one. In the beginning I remember in network marketing talking to somebody, I couldn’t even look them in the eye so I really had to become great at talking to people, strangers, when I first started and started getting clients, there were times when clients wouldn’t pay and those are difficult times, how do you prevent that?”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change People Book by Stephen Covey

Favourite Quote:

“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all”

Recommended Online Resources:

• Evernote – Organize your work and declutter your life With Evernote on your desktop and mobile devices, your notes are always with you and always in sync
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• Pixabay – Discover the best source for free images and videos Free for commercial use – No attribution required
• Google docs – brings your documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs.
• Airtable – works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power of a database to organize anything Sign up for free

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“Put marketing as a priority for your business. You can have the best book, the best online course, the best office space, but if you don’t have a marketing plan, or you’re not doing marketing, you haven’t thought about it, you don’t have a business”…[Listen for More]

More About Laura Rubinstein:

Social Buzz Club

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“I don’t have all the answers.” Joel Osteen

Other Quotes From the Chat with Laura Rubinstein:

• “Don’t use images you find on Google images, most of them are not free”
• “What’s the difference between urgent and important?”
• “Seek first to understand and then to be understood”

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