The Small Business Sidekick Blog

All things marketing for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

June 9, 2025

Here’s What’s (Probably) Holding You Back (It’s All Math… And That’s Ok)

Working with small businesses with their digital marketing the past 9 years (with Sidekick) has taught me a nearly uncountable number of lessons about challenges they […]
June 2, 2025

Avoiding Digital Disruption With A Balanced Approach

Over the past 16 years, if there’s any one thing that’s remained the same, it’s “change”.       Digital channels like search, social and email […]
May 26, 2025

Small Businesses: Here’s The Absolute Best Way To Earn Reviews

“Reviews make your business real.”       We can learn a lot through reviews & feedback regardless of where they’re being offered — feedback loops […]
May 19, 2025

Sustainable Digital Momentum: Start Small, Think Big

“Leads are slow.”     “It’s kind of quiet.”     “When was our last lead?”     These are some of the things I hear […]
May 12, 2025

The Improvement Delta And Alignment Feedback

With your measurement system in place and data for your small business at your fingertips, we can now start leveraging that data.       Just […]
May 5, 2025

The Measurement Delta: Lighting The Way With Data

So far we’ve covered a lot of “deltas” – gaps or distances – you can identify and use to help your small business.     From […]
April 28, 2025

The Systems Delta: Harnessing Chaos

There are few guarantees in the small business world (or in digital marketing for that matter).     However one thing that can be guaranteed is […]
April 21, 2025

The Relevance Delta: Timing, Rhythm & Trust

With your small business properly aligned with its ideal customers & differentiation identified and in place, now it’s time to look at ways to build (and […]
April 8, 2025

The Why Delta And Differentiation

In my last post here, I went over the “alignment delta” and how starting with search marketing can help small businesses align their digital marketing efforts […]
March 25, 2025

The Alignment Delta And Search-First Digital Marketing

In my previous post here, I walked through my journey through digital marketing, viewed through the lens of my Mathematics background.     In that post […]