Why Your Marketing is Not Growing

Small Business Talk For Coaches With Cathy Smith · Sep 17, 2026 · 13m

Your marketing may not be failing. You may just be starving it of the conditions it needs to grow.

In this episode of Small Business Talk for Coaches, Cathy shares a lesson from two veggie beds growing side by side. Same soil. Same seedlings. Same care. One thrived. One struggled. The difference was sunlight.

And that is exactly what can happen with your marketing.

Before you ditch the strategy, change platforms or chase another shiny tactic, look at what is happening around it. Is your message clear? Are enough people seeing it? Are you being consistent? Is your marketing actually leading…