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Practical tips on marketing, content, ads, websites, artificial intelligence and client management for businesses, plus a section for agencies that want to produce with us behind their brand. Written by the Blides Publicity team.

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Results-based ads: how we test before investing for real

Results-based ads: a test budget, several designs, dropping what doesn't work, and improving what does. That's how we avoid unnecessary spending.

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Professional Brand

Does your community manager post without showing you the designs? Why you should approve everything first

Does your community manager post without showing you anything? Why you should approve every design before it goes live, and how we do it at Blides Publicity.

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Professional Brand

How much does a logo, flyer, or video for your business cost? Reference prices and how to save

Reference prices for a logo, a business card, a flyer, and video editing, plus how to get all those designs unlimited with the Professional Brand plan.

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Professional Brand: unlimited designs and a community manager for one flat monthly price

What Blides Publicity's Professional Brand includes: unlimited designs, a community manager, content approval before posting, and a real-time CRM.

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How to see in real time the content that will be posted on your social media (the Blides CRM)

With the Blides Publicity CRM you see what will be posted, on which network, with what copy, image, and cover. No more chasing anyone on WhatsApp.

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Community manager or do it yourself: what's best for a small business

Run your social media yourself or hire a community manager? We compare time, cost, and results so you can decide what's best for your business.

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Visual identity: why your business needs a consistent visual style

Colors, fonts, and style: what visual identity is, why it helps you sell, and how to keep it consistent across all your social media posts.

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Professional Brand

10 social media mistakes that drive customers away (and how to avoid them)

Posting inconsistently, low-quality designs, ignoring messages… These are the most common business social media mistakes and how to fix them.

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Professional Brand

How to choose a community manager in Orlando (and what to ask before hiring them)

A guide for Hispanic businesses in Orlando and Florida: what a good community manager should offer, what to ask, and which red flags to avoid.

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Ads

A daily budget on Facebook and Instagram from day one? Why we don't recommend it

Putting $10 a day into an untested ad is spending blindly. When a daily budget on Facebook and Instagram does NOT make sense, and when it DOES.

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Ads

Results-based ads: how we test before investing for real

Results-based ads: a test budget, several designs, dropping what doesn't work, and improving what does. That's how we avoid unnecessary spending.

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How to tell within a few days if a Facebook or Instagram ad is working

Which numbers to watch to know if an ad is bringing in customers: cost per message, lead quality, and more. Plus when to pause it without waiting 30 days.

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When a daily budget does make sense: how to scale an ad that's already working

A daily budget is excellent once you have a proven ad. Here's how to scale: if $100 brings in 35 customers, $200 can bring in many more.

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Ads for beauty salons: a strategy that starts with a $50 test

How to promote a beauty salon on Facebook and Instagram without wasting money: test with $50, drop what doesn't work, and scale the winning ad.

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Why aren't my Facebook and Instagram ads bringing in customers? 8 common causes

If you're paying for ads and customers aren't coming in, check these 8 causes: design, offer, audience, misused budget, slow replies, and more.

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How much it costs to get a customer with ads (and how to calculate it easily)

Learn how to calculate your ads' cost per customer with a simple example, and how to use that number to decide how much to invest each month.

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Marketing for Hispanic businesses in Orlando: how to get customers with social media

How Hispanic businesses in Orlando and Florida can get customers with Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp: content, tested ads, and fast replies.

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Websites

How much does a website cost in the United States? What you should really get

Websites priced at $800 to $2,000 often end up slow, generic or full of errors. Here is what you should get for your money and how we do it.

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Websites

Custom website vs. WordPress or Shopify template: which one is right for you

WordPress and Shopify are good platforms, but a template will not always let you customize everything. We compare both options so you can choose well.

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Websites

A website you can edit yourself without coding: how our SaaS system works

With our SaaS system you change your site photos, text, colors, fonts and backgrounds with your own login, no coding and no paying for every change.

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Websites

Who owns your website? Why you should not pay for every change

Many companies keep your website and charge for every change. Here is what to ask before you hire someone and why your website should belong to you.

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Websites

Why your website is slow and how it is costing you customers

Per Google, the chance a visitor leaves rises 32% when load time goes from 1 to 3 seconds. Why websites get slow and how we make them fast.

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Websites

Landing page or website: which one does your business need

The differences between a landing page and a full website, when each one makes sense and how to use them with your ads to get more customers.

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Websites

How we build your website in 5 to 15 days: the step-by-step process

From the moment you send us your info until you get your website and the system to edit it: this is our process for building custom websites.

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Artificial Intelligence

Bot vs. Artificial Intelligence on WhatsApp: they are not the same thing

A bot only follows a programmed menu. Artificial Intelligence holds conversations, listens to voice notes, understands images, sends proposals and follows up.

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Artificial Intelligence

Did your WhatsApp get banned for using a bot? Why it happens and how to avoid it

Many businesses lose their WhatsApp number by using unauthorized tools. Here is why it happens and why our AI connects through the official API.

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Artificial Intelligence

What the official WhatsApp API is and why your Artificial Intelligence should use it

The official WhatsApp API lets you automate customer service in an authorized way. What it is, its advantages and how we connect our AI to it.

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Artificial Intelligence

How to train Artificial Intelligence to serve your customers

Training an AI is like training an employee: what to say, what not to say, your prices, promotions and files. If you do not have time, we do it for you.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI or an employee to answer messages: an honest comparison

An AI replies in 80+ languages, to 100+ people at once, and never forgets a promotion. An employee brings a human touch. We compare both for your business.

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Artificial Intelligence

A WhatsApp AI that listens to voice notes, understands images and speaks 80+ languages

Your customers send voice notes and photos. Our AI listens to them and interprets them to reply, and it also chats in more than 80 languages.

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Artificial Intelligence

Automatic follow-up: how AI wins back customers who stopped replying

Many customers ask and then disappear. With automatic follow-up, the AI messages them at the right time with the info or proposal they needed.

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CRM Blides

What a CRM Is and Why a Small Business Needs One, Explained Without the Tech Talk

A CRM is your business's organized notebook: leads, clients, appointments and payments in one place. What it is, what it does and when you need one.

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CRM Blides

How to Stop Losing Leads on WhatsApp: A Board That Tells You Who to Call Today

Leads get lost between chats and forgotten follow-ups. Here's how a follow-up board shows you who to call today and who has been waiting for days.

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CRM Blides

Collect Monthly Payments on Time Without Chasing Anyone: Renewals, Reminders and PDF Invoices

Collect monthly payments without chasing clients: automatic renewals, a status for every invoice, reminders and PDF invoices with your logo and payment info.

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CRM Blides

Appointments and Reminders That Actually Go Off: Stop Forgetting Calls, Meetings and Renewals

A calendar for appointments, closing calls and renewals, alarms that repeat and team alerts on Telegram. That's how you stop forgetting what matters.

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CRM Blides

How Much Comes In, How Much Goes Out and What You Keep: Simple Finances for a Service Business

Fixed income, collected, expected, overdue, expenses and commissions on one screen. Understand your service business's finances without being an accountant.

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CRM Blides

CRM vs. Spreadsheets and Notebooks: When to Switch and What You Gain

Excel, a notebook or a CRM? We compare all three for a service business: what each does well, where they fall short and the signs it's time to switch.

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CRM Blides

Let Your Facebook and Instagram Ads Fill Your Lead List Automatically, With No Duplicates

Connect your Facebook and Instagram ad forms and your website to your CRM: leads that come in on their own, with no duplicates and an alert to your team.

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CRM Blides

Everyone Sees Only What They Need: Role-Based Permissions for Your Business's Team

Your receptionist doesn't need to see salaries, and your salesperson doesn't need your passwords. Here's how role-based permissions in a CRM work.

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CRM Blides

One Client, Several Businesses: How to Bill Each One Separately Without Getting Tangled Up

When a client owns two or three businesses, billing gets messy. Here's how to organize each company with its own services, amount and renewal date.

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CRM Blides

CRM for Beauty Salons, Clinics, Repair Shops and Restaurants: How Each Business Would Use It

A CRM isn't just for big companies. Here's how a beauty salon, clinic, repair shop, restaurant, gym or real estate agency would use one.

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Professional Brand

How to Build a Monthly Content Calendar for Your Business and Approve It in One Review

How to build a monthly content calendar for your business's social media: dates, topics and formats, and how to approve it all in a single review.

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Professional Brand

How Many Times a Week Should a Business Post on Social Media? An Honest Answer

How many times a week your business should post on Instagram and Facebook based on your industry and your time. A practical, honest guide with no magic numbers.

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Professional Brand

Phone Photos for Social Media: How to Take Them So Your Designer Can Make Them Shine

How to take phone photos for your business's social media: lighting, background, angles and how to send them so your designer can turn them into posts.

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Remarketing: How to Show Your Ad Again to People Who Saw You and Didn't Buy

What remarketing on Facebook and Instagram is, who to show your ads to again and how a local business can use it to win back people who didn't buy.

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Click-to-WhatsApp Ads: Why They Work So Well for Local Businesses

Why Facebook and Instagram ads that lead to WhatsApp work so well for local businesses, when to use them and how not to lose the people who message you.

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Google Ads or Facebook and Instagram Ads: Which One Is Right for Your Business

The differences between Google Ads and Facebook and Instagram ads: how each one works, which businesses they suit and when it makes sense to use both.

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Websites

Bookings, Orders and Appointments From Your Website: What a Custom-Coded Site Can Do

A custom-coded website can take bookings, orders and appointments. What to include based on your business and what to define before you order your site.

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Websites

Local SEO: How to Show Up on Google When People Search for What You Sell in Your City

What local SEO is and how to get your business to show up on Google and Maps when someone searches for what you sell in your city. Clear steps, no tricks.

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Artificial Intelligence

An AI That Books Appointments on WhatsApp on Its Own: How It Works, Step by Step

How an Artificial Intelligence that books appointments on WhatsApp works: what it asks, how it confirms, what it does with voice notes and when it hands off.

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Artificial Intelligence

24/7 Customer Support Without Hiring a Night Shift: People Plus Artificial Intelligence

How to offer 24/7 customer support on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and phone calls without a night shift, by combining people and Artificial Intelligence.

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For agencies

White label marketing agency: what it is and how it works with Blides behind you

What a white label marketing agency is, how it works, and how it lets you sell social media, ads and websites under your name without your own team.

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For agencies

How our agency program works: you sell and get paid, we produce

How the Blides Publicity agency program works: you sell under your brand and get paid, we produce everything and deliver it to you for your client.

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For agencies

From brief to delivery: the step-by-step workflow with your production team

What the workflow looks like with Blides as your production team: everything that happens from the moment you send the brief until you deliver to your client.

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For agencies

Your client will never know there's a third party: how we protect your brand and relationship

How we handle white label confidentiality: we never contact your client, our name never appears and everything goes through you. That protects your agency.

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For agencies

Every service your agency can sell starting tomorrow without hiring anyone

Social media, ads, websites, AI for WhatsApp and 24/7 support: the services your agency can sell under your brand while Blides handles production.

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For agencies

Agency pricing: how your margin works when we handle production

How agency pricing works in white label: you pay less than the public price, charge whatever you decide, and the difference is your margin. No minimums.

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For agencies

How to grow your agency without hiring more staff (or paying payroll in slow months)

How to grow your marketing agency without hiring staff or carrying payroll in slow months: variable costs, a production team and a focus on selling.

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For agencies

Partner agency, freelancers or in-house team: what works best to produce your work

An honest comparison of a partner agency, freelancers or an in-house team for producing the work for your marketing agency's clients.

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For agencies

What we need from you to start producing for your clients (checklist)

A checklist with everything we need to start producing for your agency's clients: business details, brand, access and the scope of each service.

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For agencies

The 15 questions agencies ask us before working with us

The 15 questions agencies ask before working with Blides on a white label basis: confidentiality, pricing, timelines, services and how to get started.

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For agencies

How to offer community manager services to your clients without a design team

Sell social media management under your brand while we design, post, and report behind the scenes. Offer community manager services without hiring designers.

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For agencies

How to sell websites without knowing how to code: we build them under your brand

Sell custom-coded websites with an editing system, without writing a single line. We build them white label and you deliver them to your client.

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For agencies

How to sell Facebook and Instagram campaigns without being a Meta Ads expert

Offer Facebook and Instagram campaigns under your brand. We design, test, pause what doesn't work, and scale what does. You sell and get paid.

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For agencies

Google Ads as a service for your agency: what we deliver and how you present it

Add Google Ads to your agency without hiring specialists: white label Search and Display campaigns. What we deliver and how to present it to your client.

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For agencies

The new service your agency can sell: Artificial Intelligence for WhatsApp

Offer your clients a WhatsApp AI that chats, listens to voice notes, and books appointments. We set it up white label and you sell it.

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For agencies

24/7 customer support as a service for your agency (no shifts, no hiring)

Offer 24/7 customer service on WhatsApp, social media, email, and phone with real people, without hiring or scheduling shifts. We handle it white label.

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For agencies

Logos, brand identity, and stationery: how to sell them with a design team behind you

Sell logos, brand identity, and stationery under your brand and leave the design to us. How to get the brief, present concepts, and earn a monthly fee.

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For agencies

Landing pages for campaigns: the ads plus landing page combo with the best margin

Selling ads without a good landing page leaves money on the table. How to offer the ads plus landing page combo under your brand, with production behind you.

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For agencies

Online stores for your clients: what we do and what you sell

Offer custom-coded online stores under your brand. What we build, what's on you, and what to ask your client before you quote their store.

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For agencies

How to build service packages (basic, mid-tier, and premium) with agency pricing

Build basic, mid-tier, and premium packages that sell themselves. What to include, how to price them with your agency cost, and mistakes that cut your margin.

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For agencies

How to Get the Right Information From Your Client So Everything Comes Out Right the First Time

What to ask your client for before producing designs, ads or a website, and how to build a brief that prevents revisions and delays at your agency.

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For agencies

Turnaround Times: How Long Each Service Takes and How to Promise It to Your Client

How long a website, social media content or an ad campaign takes, and how to promise dates to your client without letting them down as an agency.

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For agencies

Revisions and Changes: How to Handle Client Corrections Without Losing Money

How to handle the revisions and changes your client asks for without eating into your margin: what's a correction, what's a new request, and how to say it.

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For agencies

Content Approval With a Link: Your Client Reviews and Approves Without Logging Into Anything

How the public approval link works: your client views, approves or comments on each post with no username or password, and everything stays organized.

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For agencies

How to Run the Posting Calendar for 10, 20 or 50 Clients Without Losing Control

How to organize the social media calendar for many clients at once: monthly planning, key dates, approvals and who posts what each day.

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For agencies

Monthly Reports for Your Clients: What to Include and How We Prepare Them for You

What a monthly social media and ads report for your clients should include, how to explain it without jargon, and how we prepare it behind your agency.

5 min read
For agencies

How to Manage 20 Clients as a One-Person Agency

How to go from a few clients to 20 without hiring a team: what to delegate, what to do yourself, how to organize your day and how to use white label production.

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For agencies

What to Do When a Client Asks for Something You Don't Know How to Do (and You Don't Want to Say No)

Your client asks for a website, ads or AI for WhatsApp and you only do social media. How to respond, what not to promise and how to deliver with a team.

4 min read
For agencies

CRM for Marketing Agencies: Your Clients, Their Billing and Their Content in One Place

What a CRM for marketing agencies should have: leads, clients with multiple companies, monthly billing, a calendar and content approval.

4 min read
For agencies

7 Mistakes When Outsourcing Your Agency's Production (and How We Avoid Them)

The most common mistakes when outsourcing your agency's production: vendors who contact your client, no process, no deadlines and no clear margin.

4 min read
For agencies

How much to charge for social media management (and how to calculate your margin)

How much to charge for social media management: market ranges, what to include in each plan, and how to calculate your margin with a team behind you.

4 min read
For agencies

How much to charge for a website as an agency: price ranges and how to justify them

How much to charge for a website as an agency: ranges by type of site, what justifies each price, and how to present it so clients don't just compare numbers.

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For agencies

How to collect monthly retainers at your agency without chasing payments every month

How to collect monthly retainers at your agency: fixed dates, automatic invoices, reminders, and clear rules so you stop chasing payments every month.

4 min read
For agencies

From freelancer to agency: the leap you can make without risking your income

Go from freelancer to agency without risking your income: how to grow without hiring at first, what services to sell, and how to organize your business.

4 min read
For agencies

How to scale your agency from 5 to 50 clients without quality slipping

How to scale your agency from 5 to 50 clients without losing quality: processes, production, tools, and the stages where most agencies break down.

4 min read
For agencies

Latin American agencies with U.S. clients: getting paid in dollars and delivering in English

Latin American agencies with U.S. clients: how to get paid in dollars, deliver in Spanish and English, and keep up with time zones without burning out.

4 min read
For agencies

How to retain clients at your agency: what makes them renew every month

How to retain clients at your agency: communication, visible results, clear approvals, and the signs a client is about to leave before it happens.

4 min read
For agencies

How to present a sales proposal that closes: structure and examples for agencies

A sales proposal for agencies that closes: structure, what to include, how to present the price, and the mistakes that make clients stop responding.

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For agencies

Contracts, scope, and expectations: how to avoid the "I thought that was included"

Contracts and scope for agencies: what to put in writing to avoid "I thought that was included," how to handle extras, and how to set clear expectations.

4 min read
For agencies

Slow seasons: how to keep your agency profitable when clients drop off

Slow seasons at your agency: why they happen, how to prepare, what to sell in slow months, and how to cut fixed costs so your agency stays profitable.

4 min read
For agencies

Freelance designer: how to offer social media, websites and ads without giving up design

As a freelance designer, you can sell social media, websites and ads under your own name while a white label team handles production behind you.

4 min read
For agencies

Freelance community manager: how to take on more accounts without working twice as hard

You're a freelance community manager and you've run out of hours. Here's how to take on more accounts with a white label production team behind you.

5 min read
For agencies

Print shops and photo and video studios: how to add digital marketing to what you already sell

Your print shop or photo studio already has clients who need social media, websites and ads. Here is how to sell them under your brand with a team behind you.

4 min read
For agencies

Consultants and coaches: how to offer marketing execution, not just strategy

As a consultant or coach, you deliver the strategy but your client doesn't execute it. Here's how to offer marketing execution under your own brand too.

4 min read
For agencies

Web developers: how to deliver design, content and ads too

You build websites, and after launch clients ask you for a logo, content and ads. Here is how to deliver them under your brand with a team behind you.

4 min read
For agencies

Traditional advertising agencies: how to move into digital without building a department

Your traditional advertising agency can sell social media, Meta ads and websites without hiring a digital department. Here is how it works.

4 min read
For agencies

You sell marketing on commission: how to have a full agency behind you and keep the margin

If you sell marketing on commission, you can start billing under your own name and keep the margin, with a full agency producing behind the scenes.

4 min read
For agencies

You just opened your agency: how to land and serve your first client with a team behind you

You just opened your marketing agency and need your first client. How to land them, what to offer and how to serve them well with a team behind you.

4 min read
For agencies

An example with numbers: an agency with 10 social media clients and us doing the production

An example with numbers of an agency with 10 social media clients: how much it bills, how its margin is calculated and what each side does.

4 min read
For agencies

Why agencies from several countries produce with Blides Publicity (and what they ask us for)

Agencies and freelancers from the U.S. and Latin America produce with Blides Publicity as a white label team. Here are their reasons and what they ask for most.

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