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<h4><b>The <i>AppSumo Essential Marketing Start Guide</i> is an ebook that helps lean professional service businesses take control of their digital marketing with direct advice from the AppSumo team.</b></h4> 

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    </p><p>Written with small teams and tight budgets in mind, the <i>AppSumo Essential Marketing Start Guide</i> <b>fills in the gaps of your digital marketing strategy</b>.</p>

<p>Get ready to take your business to the next level with advice straight from the mouths of Sumos.</p>

<p>Real-life copywriters, Alex and Sarabeth, sat down with 7 members of the AppSumo marketing team for real consulting calls.</p>

<p>They dove into seven unique aspects of their business — <b>Facebook ads, social media, email, SEO keyword research, YouTube, Google ads, and referrals</b> — and how to improve them.</p>

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<p>When you’re killing it for your clients, it’s easy to spend all your time working in your business instead of on your business.</p>

<p>And when you finally have a free moment to spare, where do you even start?</p> 

<p>This guide is <b>packed with ideas, step-by-step walk-throughs, and even one-off growth tactics </b>we use here at AppSumo.</p> 

<p>The next time you need to plan social media, create a powerful digital ad, or launch that new viral referral program, we’ve got you covered.</p>

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<p>You’ll <b>read video creation advice from Brandon</b> — a content producer behind many of Noah Kagan and AppSumo’s most popular YouTube videos.</p>

<p>Then, <b>get a step-by-step Google ads walkthrough from Jack </b>— the mastermind behind some of AppSumo’s highest-ROI digital ads.</p>

<p>Plus, you’ll <b>receive email tips from Chris</b> — the newsletter guru who writes and manages the memorable emails for AppSumo that generate tens of thousands of dollars every week.</p>

<p><i>And that’s just 3 out of 7 chapters...</i></p>

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<p>So much of the digital marketing advice online is a total scattershot — it’s generic or focused on an irrelevant industry.</p>

<p>All the advice in this ebook is<b> geared toward small service businesses</b>: freelancers, small agencies, solo consultants, and business coaches.</p> 

<p>After all, you don’t have 40 hours, a full marketing team, or a massive advertising budget to spend every week on digital marketing.</p>

<p>These tips take a lean approach, <b>helping you get the basics right</b>, so that you can get quality leads and level up your business.</p> 

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<p>Every entrepreneur has big challenges to overcome on their way to success.</p>

<p>With this guide, we hope your next big challenge is just figuring out how to handle all your newfound success (<i>just don’t forget the little people</i>).</p> 

<p>Dive into this ebook today — and start raking in those leads this week.</p>

<p><b>Get free access to the <i>AppSumo Essential Marketing Start Guide</i> now!</b></p>

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