A Personal Update
TL;DR: Tidings Founder David Mihm now also serves as the new VP of Product Strategy at ThriveHive.
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October 23rd, 2018
June 22nd, 2018
Spring Cleaning 2018
A new text editor, the ability to add multiple new content types, a faster interface, and more: we spent months on this latest update, but hope you barely notice it.
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February 26th, 2018
Tidings Turns 1.
Tidings turned 1 on Friday. Here's an honest look at our big wins over the last 12 months and significant challenges we still face as we grow our business.
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December 8th, 2017
5 (OK, 4) Highlights from the Inaugural LSA Cloud Adoption Summit
I was grateful to receive an invitation from Neal Polachek, Charles Laughlin, and the LSA to give my take on the Cloud Adoption Summit at the close of the day yesterday. For those of you who weren't able to attend this year, I thought I'd summarize my biggest takeaways from the full Twitter stream -- the intimate size and executive nature of the audience made it well worth the trip down the coast from Portland.
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November 7th, 2017
2017 Assembled: The Recap
Last week we held our very first Assembled event–a round-robin help desk designed to give small business owners 1:1 consultations with experts in the areas of digital marketing where they needed the most help. 14 experts from Oregon and Southwest Washington graciously donated their time (a full day, in most cases) to help over 30 …
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October 25th, 2017
David Mihm’s 2017 SIINDA MediaTech Presentation
Based on the Local Marketing Stack I developed earlier in the year, this presentation shows you how to align your product offering with SMB customer demand -- and stave off the existential threat to agencies posed by Google and Facebook.
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June 19th, 2017
Tidings WordPress Plugin Now Available
TLDR: You can now publish your Tidings newsletters to your WordPress blog with a single click. To get started: A: Create Account Key on Tidings Account Settings B: Install & Activate Plugin from WordPress Directory C: Enter Account Key in Plugin Settings D: Publish your newsletters to WordPress in one click! All the Details: …
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June 14th, 2017
Tidings WordPress Plugin Now Available
TLDR: You can now publish your Tidings newsletters to your WordPress blog with a single click. To get started: A: Create Account Key on Tidings Account Settings B: Install & Activate Plugin from WordPress Directory C: Enter Account Key in Plugin Settings D: Publish your newsletters to WordPress in one click! All the Details: …
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June 5th, 2017
Tidings Chrome Extension Now Available
TLDR: You can now save articles from around the web to your Tidings newsletter. To get started: Step 1: Create Account Key on Tidings Account Settings Step 2: Install Extension from Chrome Webstore Step 3: Enter Account Key in Extension Options Step 4: Start saving articles to your newsletter! All the …
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April 6th, 2017
Quarterly Feature Updates: Q1 2017
Hard to believe it’s already been 6 weeks since we launched Tidings. We’ve had some great feedback from our initial customers, including Evan Swanson, Mike Blumenthal, and John Doherty, and I’m excited for the next quarter of development. On our roadmap are: Constant Contact integration Ability to update header logo and cover photo directly from Tidings …
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February 23rd, 2017
Tidings Launches.
I'm excited to announce the launch of Tidings, a SaaS product that automatically generates perfectly-branded email newsletters for small businesses.
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Timeless Resources
Email: Your Marketing Lifeline During COVID-19 and Beyond
While COVID-19 has caused a precipitous drop in searches in many business categories, newsletters have seen a 5-34% increase in engagement. Here are Tidings' recommendations for building a great email program that *every* local business can execute, no matter how limited their time, budget, or marketing sophistication. If you’re not yet doing email marketing — or haven’t done as well with it as you’d have liked — there’s no time like the present to start!
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