100 episodes

Are you a curious, ambitious and motivated small business owner who really wants to know more about how you can best make marketing work for your business?

When it comes to growing your business, are you addicted to continuous improvement and professional development and constantly trying to work out how you can go the extra mile?

If you answer yes to any of the above, you are going to LOVE The How To Do Marketing Show with Jane Hillsdon.

The How To Do Marketing show is hosted by straight-shooting marketing consultant, author of ‘How to do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide for Small Businesses, Certified Practicing Marketer, and three-time AMI Award winner; Jane Hillsdon.

Jane combines her frank & no-nonsense approach, a curious mindset and a massive passion for all things marketing. Together with the carefully curated guest list of remarkable marketers, the How To Do Marketing show will share marketers insight and inspiration about best practice small business marketing.

Understanding exactly what marketing is and what marketing is going to work for your business can be confusing. How do you know how best to reach your customer? How do you stand out from your competition? How much do you need to spend on marketing? How do you attract the attention of the right type of customer? What even is the right type of customer? How do you make sure that your customer keeps coming back and better still, that they gush about your business to all of their friends and family? And, in a world of small business where time is a most scarce resource, how do you fit it all in?

The How To Do Marketing Show will answer all of these questions and more. The podcast will deliver thought leadership, practical advice and simple strategies to help small business owners achieve excellent marketing results. And by doing so, collectively advancing the success of small businesses based in regional Australia.

The podcast is managed and hosted by Jane Hillsdon and produced by Morgan Media.

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    • 5.0 • 38 Ratings

Are you a curious, ambitious and motivated small business owner who really wants to know more about how you can best make marketing work for your business?

When it comes to growing your business, are you addicted to continuous improvement and professional development and constantly trying to work out how you can go the extra mile?

If you answer yes to any of the above, you are going to LOVE The How To Do Marketing Show with Jane Hillsdon.

The How To Do Marketing show is hosted by straight-shooting marketing consultant, author of ‘How to do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide for Small Businesses, Certified Practicing Marketer, and three-time AMI Award winner; Jane Hillsdon.

Jane combines her frank & no-nonsense approach, a curious mindset and a massive passion for all things marketing. Together with the carefully curated guest list of remarkable marketers, the How To Do Marketing show will share marketers insight and inspiration about best practice small business marketing.

Understanding exactly what marketing is and what marketing is going to work for your business can be confusing. How do you know how best to reach your customer? How do you stand out from your competition? How much do you need to spend on marketing? How do you attract the attention of the right type of customer? What even is the right type of customer? How do you make sure that your customer keeps coming back and better still, that they gush about your business to all of their friends and family? And, in a world of small business where time is a most scarce resource, how do you fit it all in?

The How To Do Marketing Show will answer all of these questions and more. The podcast will deliver thought leadership, practical advice and simple strategies to help small business owners achieve excellent marketing results. And by doing so, collectively advancing the success of small businesses based in regional Australia.

The podcast is managed and hosted by Jane Hillsdon and produced by Morgan Media.

    And that’s a wrap

    And that’s a wrap

    This will be the last episode of The How To Do Marketing Show that I record. In this episode, I share my three favourite interviews from the show, what I have loved along and been challenged with along the way and I also talk about the new direction I am taking in my career.  Thank you for being a listener of The How To Do Marketing Show!

    • 28 min
    The front yard family - breaking isolation and loneliness with Jason Knight

    The front yard family - breaking isolation and loneliness with Jason Knight

    It’s almost Christmas time, so what a perfect opportunity to talk about the importance of community and connection. In this episode I chat with Jason Knight, the branding specialist that created the brand for my businesses. However, we are not talking about branding. We are talking about a movement that Jason started in his neighbourhood to foster a spirit of connection and community. ‘The Front Yard Family’ has led to so many positive outcomes in Jason’s local community and the concept can so easily be picked up and applied to our business communities, that I thought it a great conversation to share.

    If this episode has inspired you to combine the silos of your life into the one circle ‘the integrated life’ you can check out the special offer that Jason mentioned in this interview here:https://www.askjasonknight.com/onecircle

    And if you’d like to find out more about Jason’s branding for entrepreneurs, visit; www.askjasonknight.com


    About Jane Hillsdon

    I'm a passionate award-winning marketer dedicated to helping small business owners make good decisions about their marketing.

    I am the founder and CEO of a marketing agency called Dragonfly Marketing PLUS the founder of the How to do Marketing Academy.  I’m also the author of How To Do Marketing – A Comprehensive Guide For Small Business.  It's my mission to ensure that marketing is on the agenda for every regionally based small business in Australia. Why? Because I know that when marketing is done properly, it can help your business grow.

    On the marketing front, I am a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) NSW Committee and a head judge for the AMI Awards for Excellence. I was awarded the Small Budget Marketing Award at the AMI Awards for Marketing Excellence in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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    • 47 min
    How to make your marketing documents more accessible

    How to make your marketing documents more accessible

    Did you know that in Australia, over 13 million people have one or more chronic (long-term) eye conditions? And that over 575,000 are blind or vision impaired in Australia alone. I certainly didn’t. And I’m embarrassed to admit that until I met Katherine Collins, a graphic designer that specialises in creating accessible documents, I had never really spared a thought about the importance of making marketing material more accessible. In this episode, Katherine talks about what document accessibility is and how we can all start to make our communications more inclusive. If you are interested in checking out the Website Content Accessibility Guidelines – you can see them here: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/ Also, if you want to make your Word docs more accessible, if you are using a Mac, you will see a big button that says ‘Check Accessibility’ in the tool bar in when you are in the ‘Review’ tab. If you’d like to find out more about Katherine’s business; KC and the Graphics Bandwagon, visit: kcandthegraphicsbandwagon.com.au/ (you can also sign up for her fab newsletter here too.) If you’d like to connect with Katherine on LinkedIn – you’ll find her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-collins-4375a516/

    • 35 min
    Small business branding with Aynsley Campbell

    Small business branding with Aynsley Campbell

    It’s easy for small business owners to dismiss the idea of investing in brand development as it’s a hard one to directly measure the outcome of and it always seems like a hefty investment to make in isolation.

    • 42 min
    Create content that will make first time customers feel like VIPs

    Create content that will make first time customers feel like VIPs

    We are all bombarded by so much content these days, it really is so important that if you are going to show up in this overly crowded content filled world, that you show up with messaging that will cut through. So how can you do this with the words that you use? In this episode I chat with, Nadine Nethery, founder of CAN DO! Content and a strategic copywriter for female founders. Nadine shares how small businesses can create empathy led and audience driven messages to ensure that they are truly connecting with their customer. Mostly, Nadine talks about the importance of consulting with your customer by conducting customer research, to ensure that you can use the right words to connect with them in your marketing content. If you’d like to find out more about The Audience Success Formula click here: https://www.candocontent.com/audience-success-formula If you’d like to connect with Nadine on Insta – you’ll find her here: https://www.instagram.com/candocontent/ And her very fabulous website is here: https://candocontent.com/

    • 37 min
    Our seven-step content marketing system

    Our seven-step content marketing system

    Recently I surveyed 50 small business owners and asked them what the biggest challenge was when it came to creating their content marketing. The survey revealed that the biggest challenge that 60% of small business owners face is finding the time to create a consistent flow of content. They simply don’t feel like they have the time or the resources to keep up. Well, we can’t add extra hours into the day, but we can save the amount of time it’s taking you to create this content by sharing the very system that we use to manage the content marketing, for our business as well as our clients. Our seven step content marketing system ensures that we work with epic efficiency while achieve maximum results.

    • 29 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
38 Ratings

38 Ratings

Rebecca Matthews Designs ,

No-nonsense, highly-valuable and practical marketing content

Thanks Jane for providing us with so much ongoing support, information and no-nonsense (and totally entertaining) advice on the marketing front. Your down-to-earth, investigative approach to interviewing is really refreshing. You really get to the bare bones of what everyone needs to be doing to run successful marketing for their businesses to help achieve their business goals.

Great guests, great conversations, and a wealth of thought-provoking, relevant and practical marketing content that tallies totally with what we as business owners are wanting to achieve. With a maze of marketing updates to constantly navigate, you help keep us on track to focus on what are the most important marketing goals.

Love your work 👍

Cheers,
Rebecca

Tahshi ,

Great Podcast with actionable insights

Jane is very down to earth and her insights are easy to understand and implement. The range of guests she has on her show ensures anything you need to know about marketing is covered.

It’s great to hear how small businesses put marketing strategies into action, coming out with great results or learnings.

Tiarna Pepall ,

Fantastic podcast for small biz and marketers both!

Jane is a fantastic host with fantastic guests! I was drawn in by a really cool ep on LInkedIn Marketing that gave me some really actionalbe takeaways. Jane's knowledge of marketing specifically for small business is also fantastic and helpful where a lot of advice I've found is for larger businesses. Great choice of pod, highly recommend!

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