Build Your Marketing Muscles - Small Business Marketing Strategies · Gwen Montoya, Gwen Montoya - Marketing Strategist

Ways to Market Your Business Before You Open

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Marketing strategist Gwen Montoya provides actionable strategies for entrepreneurs to market their businesses before they officially open. She covers tactics for both brick-and-mortar and online businesses, emphasizing community building, social media storytelling, and practical pre-launch preparations while advising on maintaining personal boundaries in content creation.

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A practical guide to pre-launch marketing that turns waiting time into visible progress.

Gwen Montoya frames the weeks before opening day as active marketing time, which gives the piece a grounded, useful focus for anyone wondering how to market a business that is not open yet.

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Market before you open without turning launch prep into a second full-time job.

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