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Nancy Burgess
Nancy Burgess is the owner of Nancy Burgess Strategic Marketing, a marketing consulting firm and online agency. In that role, she integrates her corporate success as a digital marketer along with her marketing agency experience in marketing communications and branding to help businesses prosper.
Nancy's specialties are search engine optimization (SEO) and content creation.
She graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, holds a master's degree, and also multiple marketing certificates from DePaul University's graduate school.
She is a frequent presenter on SEO strategies and has worked in digital marketing since the late 1990s.
As someone who can strategize AND execute, Nancy offers digital and traditional marketing services to SMBs. Agency value without agency fees.
Along with SEO and content strategies, Nancy's agency offers website design, marketing automation, integrated marketing strategies, and branding to her clients.

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Is your SMB invisible in 2026? Avoid these 25 critical SEO mistakes that hide your business from AI search engines and cost you valuable leads every day.
Where Content Marketing Goes Astray in an AI World: 10 Common SMB Mistakes
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5 Essential Marketing Resolutions SMBs Often Miss
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Digi-Tips: Focus on Branding, Issue 3
Read Digi-Tips™ 3. Focus on branding and brand reputation. SEO trends. Brand names and AI. SMB marketing tech stack. Authoritativeness & Trustworthiness, and more.
Digi-Tips: 7 Fast Digital Marketing Hacks for SMB Growth, Issue 2
Read Digi-Tips Newsletter, Issue 2. We particularly focus on AI and its impact on search results. Explore a good read, inspirational quote, and free offer.
Digi-Tips: 6 Quick Digital Marketing Hacks for SMBs, Issue 1
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Digi-Tips: Fast Digital Marketing Hacks for Small and Midsize Business (SMB) Growth. We’ve rethought our newsletter format to provide you with quick, valuable info for your business. Read Issue 1.
14 SEO Gaps: What Your SMB Website Is Missing
SEO for small- and midsize businesses (SMBs) is our specialty. Uncover these 14 SEO gaps that are often missing from SMB websites.
Our Proven SEO Process for SMBs
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