There’s Always a Strategy
A good story doesn’t just appear out of thin air. Stories are the backbone of all branding, forged and crafted into the ideal message for the product. Without them, marketing campaigns can fall flat...Read More
Gripped By The Power of The GIF
In the era of social media sharing, the word GIF has become part of our vernacular...Read More
Just Pin It
Which outlet best communicates your message? Between Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Snapchat, the sky’s the limit for brand awareness and circulation...Read More
Boy or Girl?
Boys watch sports and drive fast cars; girls try on shoes and play with makeup. Girls like pink. Boys like blue. These broad, clichéd gender stereotypes...Read More
Why Not Wear It?
With tech companies pumping out new products each year or sometimes every couple of months, as it were the mode of receiving has shifted. "Wearables" is taking 2017 by storm...Read More
Virtual Reality’s Role in Marketing
Technology has made some remarkable advancements in the past two decades. No, we still don’t have hoverboards or flying cars (sorry, Doc Brown), but we do have virtual reality...Read More
Crowdsourced Marketing: Is It Worth The Risk?
We’ve all heard about the wisdom of crowds, from Wikipedia to an entire industry of television voting shows attempting to prove the theory...Read More
How To Fuel The Social Media Furnace
Each platform is unique with its “rules” while ever-changing algorithms make it more difficult to stay on top of the feed. Staying relevant is a full time job. Welcome to the modern world... Read More
Brand Awareness = Business Value
Considering a rebranding? How do you put a price tag on the value of your business? The very best strategic brands have one thing in common is a systems-based approach to the design of your brand...Read More
Design By Committee: When Collaboration Goes Awry
A healthy exchange of ideas from a vested team can be a recipe for a happy workplace and business success...Read More
How to Position Yourself Within a Brand
Having your own brand allows you to create a “mark” around yourself, your name and your career...Read More
Stop Advertising and Start Telling Stories
You finally pulled the trigger and purchased a quarter page ad in a local newspaper or activated that Google AdWords account that has been dormant for months. You are bold and determined to get your brand seen by more eyeballs. Bravo. Now, what’s your story?...Read More
Why Your Website Needs To Be More Than Responsive
Are you frustrated when a website appears small and cluttered on your mobile phone so much so you have to zoom in with your fingers to now have content cut off in weird places? Get out, fast...Read More
Making the Most of Your Marketing Agency
You’ve signed on with a great marketing partner. Time to maximize your marketing dollars and finally build some brand equity right? Yes, absolutely. But the more realistic answer is that it will take time...Read More
Scale Your Brand, Build A Better Business
A few years ago, a businessperson once told me, you are either making money or losing money. It’s a rather simple statement that made me question day-to-day tasks as well as our long-term strategy for growing the business...Read More
How to Use Guerrilla Marketing to your Advantage
When we hear the term “guerrilla marketing,” it’s difficult not to think of guerrilla warfare — which makes sense, since that’s where this style of marketing got its name...Read More
5 Tips to Promote Action from your Audience
Your company has a Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram page that seem to be humming along with systematic posting — good content, lots of followers, but zero comments, reviews nor sales...Read More
Why You Love Your Brand (and Like others)
No two brands are created equal. Countless hours of market research, insights, and planning go into setting the stage for a memorable brand. Great brands aren’t born overnight...Read More
Build Your Personal Empire
If you are an entrepreneur, then you know that everyone is a potential client and that reputation matters. We have seen a person’s name turned into a verb, former models design furniture, or singers pitch perfume...Read More
A Brand for All Seasons: Creating A Consistent Message
Winter is coming. And so are so many ways to advertise your business — but how do you stay within brand as well as push the envelope? Read More
Beyond Opinion, What Makes a Great Logo?
You have hired a marketing team to design your new brand identity. They have interviewed you, done their research and now its time to present you with three options of fresh new corporate identities...Read More