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Shawna Suckow — The Buyer Insider

FREE SMALL BUSINESS RESOURCES

Welcome to The Small Business Resource Vault: a collection of resources to help you succeed with fewer headaches, less time drain, and zero Big Brand marketing mythology (because it doesn’t work for small businesses!)

Everything here is built for the underdog. Dig in, take what helps, and go out-compete the big guys.

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Oodles of
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Some free, some paid, all useful.

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30-Day Social Media Calendar

A full month of content prompts mapped out so you never stare at a blank screen again. Plug in your voice, hit post.

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Social Media Prompt Pack

100+ conversation-starting prompts for small businesses. Scroll-stopping ideas for every platform, no inspiration required.

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The 28-Day B2B Outreach Blueprint

How small businesses land clients with video, AI, and voicemail — without cold calling. A 28-day multi-channel sequence that feels personal at scale.

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The Complete 18-Month Outreach System

Every script. Every template. Every step. The full multi-channel outreach system built for the long game... including CRM tracker, tool setup guides, and re-engagement cycles running 18 months deep.

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Branding

Find Your Exact Right Customer™

More customers is not always the goal. More of the right ones? Absolutely. This six-page fillable worksheet helps you identify customers who align with your values, want what you love selling, and bring more joy, calm, and ease. Includes five pain-in-the-butt customer traits to avoid.

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Branding

How to Differentiate Your Business from The Blandscape™

Stop sounding like everyone else. Identify what matters to your Exact Right Customers™, replace overused claims with specific proof, and write a message that gives people a reason to choose you.

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Branding

Branding Checklist: 35 Assets You Need

The complete small business branding checklist — from logo and colors to voice and photography. Know exactly where you stand.

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The Trust Score: How Human Are You?

Rate yourself 1–5 on how relatable, memorable, and trustworthy your business is. Score yourself on clarity, authenticity, consistency, generosity, and impact. Get instant feedback and your personalized action plan.

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Marketing Myth Buster Checklist

Are you falling for these 5 marketing myths? This quick checklist busts the most common advice that’s quietly costing small businesses. Download, check yourself, compete smarter.

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Strategy

The Underdog Positioning Playbook

The step-by-step workbook for small businesses who are done trying to act big. Own your niche, map your competitors’ weaknesses, and build a 90-day marketing plan that plays to your strengths.

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The Trust Score for Realtors

Are you a Two-Percenter in real estate? Score yourself on two layers of trust: the professional baseline (responsiveness, process clarity, consistency) and the relatable layer (personality, stories, authenticity). Find out where you stand.

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The Relatable Expert Quick Guide

Six industry-agnostic habits and a ten-second check for making customer, employee, client, and partner conversations clearer, more human, and more useful.

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Communication

The Human Response Rewrite Guide

Before-and-after language for delays, mistakes, missing information, firm answers, upset people, and difficult handoffs, plus a practice worksheet.

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Leadership

The Relatable Expert Coaching Scorecard

A practical leader tool for reviewing a real interaction, coaching six communication behaviors, and choosing one improvement to practice next.

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Brand Voice

The Brand Voice Audit Worksheet

Audit messages across the experience, score clarity and humanity, rewrite weak language, and decide what to keep, revise, retire, or replace.

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Storytelling

The Feature-to-Story Translator

One-page fillable guide that turns product specs into stories that actually sell. Includes the Feature-to-Story formula, 5 before/after examples, blank rows for your own features, and an Emotion Check so you know it lands.

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Storytelling

The Story Bank Kit

Stop winging it. Mine your real stories, capture them in a reusable format, and map 90 days of content in one sitting. Six story categories, a capture template, a running story library, a channel cheat sheet, and a 90-day publishing plan.

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Storytelling

The Why Us Story Script

Stop listing features. Start telling stories. This fill-in-the-blank template helps you craft the “Why Us” story that stops the scroll, builds trust, and makes your business unforgettable.

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Storytelling

50 Story-Driven Content Ideas

Storytelling beats features and benefits every time. Here are 50 content angles that build trust, loyalty, and real connection.

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⭐ A.I.

Build Your A.I. Board of Directors

Stop asking ChatGPT generic questions. This 4-page fillable kit helps you build a personalized A.I. advisory board — pick your advisors, define your business, and create a Custom GPT that actually knows your goals.

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A.I.

Your A.I. CFO

A custom AI prompt that thinks like a Chief Financial Officer for your small business — cash flow questions, pricing decisions, budget gut-checks. No MBA required.

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A.I.

Your A.I. Director of Operations

Think of this as your AI COO. Feed it your workflows and it helps you find the bottlenecks, build the systems, and stop reinventing the wheel every single week.

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A.I.

Your A.I. Content Repurposer

Turn one piece of content into ten. Paste in a blog post, podcast transcript, or email and get back social captions, headlines, email subject lines, and short-form angles — all in your voice.

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A.I.

SEO vs GEO: Your Business Visibility Guide

40-50% of your customers now ask AI instead of Google. Learn why Generative Engine Optimization is more important than traditional SEO, and get a 90-day action plan to stay visible in the age of AI.

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Small is Your Superpower by Shawna Suckow, CSP — consumer behavior expert, marketing author, and small business keynote speaker

#1 Amazon Bestseller in Starting a Small Business

SMALL IS YOUR SUPERPOWER!

Understanding you have a superpower is the first step. Knowing how to use it is the rest. Small is Your Superpower is the no-fluff playbook that shows small business owners exactly how to turn their size, personality, and community roots into an unfair competitive advantage.

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RANDOM DEEP THOUGHT

Your dog has no idea what your job is. As far as they're concerned, you disappear into the wilderness every day and somehow return with food.

UNDERESTIMATED

The Small Business Advantage Podcast with Shawna Suckow

"Small businesses have been underestimated for decades. That turns out to be their greatest advantage."

Underestimated is a podcast for small business owners, entrepreneurs, marketers, and leaders who are done pretending to be bigger than they are — and ready to win by being exactly who they are.

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The Small Business Advantage Podcast

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