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How Small-Town Businesses Can Make A Big Difference
While I didn’t grow up in the same rural community where I live now, I would definitely classify myself as a fan of small towns.

Christy Ragle
Jan 92 min read
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Don’t Sleep On LinkedIn
If you are new to LinkedIn, or you have the gray person outline on your profile, here are some ways to take full advantage of LinkedIn.
wholeheartbuild
Sep 12, 20242 min read
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Fighting For Joy
True confession: When this year started, I (Christy) was living a life I didn’t want to live. I couldn’t put my finger on the problem. It...

Christy Ragle
Jul 10, 20245 min read
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Why are videos crucial to content marketing for your small business?
There are endless possibilities with videos, therefore with planning and execution you can increase engagement and connection...

Rachel Snavely Appleby
May 10, 20242 min read
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What’s With All The Meta Spam?
If you operate a small business Facebook page (owned by Meta), chances are you have gotten
bombarded with lots of messages...

Christy Ragle
Dec 6, 20232 min read
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Small Town Marketing, Big Time Impact
Small-town living isn’t just a Hallmark movie set for the team at WholeHeart Communications. We all live in small towns and love the...

Christy Ragle
Oct 16, 20233 min read
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Storytelling: The Road To Connection
Each of us has a story - the pieces of us that make us unique. The baggage we carry, the losses, the gains. The incredible journey that...

Brittany Dicken
Jun 14, 20232 min read
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Make Time for Marketing: Leveraging the Calendar to Meet Your Marketing Goals
Make Time for Marketing

Christy Ragle
Apr 17, 20232 min read
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Why are Short-Form Videos Important to your Marketing Plan?
By: Rachel Snavely Appleby By now you may have noticed that your social media feed is moving… instead of just images and text, you're...

Rachel Snavely Appleby
Jan 27, 20233 min read
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Going Beyond Gloom and Doom
Inflation. Recession. Job market. Gloom. Doom. What should be your response as a small business owner when it seems like the gloomers and...
wholeheartbuild
Oct 28, 20222 min read
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What Are You Thinking?
If you’re a typical entrepreneur, your brain moves at the pace of a fully caffeinated puppy. There’s so much to do, and then you have...

Christy Ragle
Jan 25, 20222 min read
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Discover Your Why with the Golden Circle
In the last year, employers are seeing a trend of long-time employees leaving and making a complete career change. This pattern is...
wholeheartbuild
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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Small Businesses Make the World Go Round
Thinking back on the career plans and goals I set for myself, I never knew exactly where I would land. While I had many dreams and...
wholeheartbuild
Jun 7, 20212 min read
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Tips for Drawing Up Your 2021 Marketing Plan
Not to state the obvious, but we can all collectively agree that 2020 did not go as planned. In our office, not a single marketing plan...
wholeheartbuild
Dec 23, 20203 min read
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The Sure Thing
Those of you who know me well know I don’t often hold Wal-Mart up as an outstanding example of business public relations. However, they...
wholeheartbuild
Aug 7, 20202 min read
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June is the New January
Remember December 31, 2019? I know… it seems like an eternity ago. We all had hopes of a big year. After all, with a name like 2020, it...
wholeheartbuild
May 13, 20202 min read
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Opening Safely: A Call To Fellow Small Business Owners
Over the course of the current pandemic, there has been an earnest desire to support small businesses. As small businesses, we’ve...
wholeheartbuild
Apr 23, 20202 min read
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Remote Work: Making It Work For You
Working remotely sounds great initially. Work in my pajamas? Move my office out to the back deck? Have my dogs as office mates? But when...
wholeheartbuild
Mar 17, 20203 min read
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New Year, New Marketing Plan
As we ring in another new year it’s time to think about growing your business. Every year as the ball drops you make a resolution to...
wholeheartbuild
Jan 22, 20202 min read
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Thankful Through The Stress
As the end of the year is nearing, we’re placing the final projects of 2019 into our Asana task board and our thoughts are swirling like...
wholeheartbuild
Nov 22, 20192 min read
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