Let’s face it, marketing can be hard! In each marketing blog post, we hope you’ll find the information you need for your business marketing success.
Why You Need Better Coordination Between Marketing and Sales
We work with companies of every size across the country, but there are some unique needs many of our small and medium-sized clients share. Managers or owners need to wear many hats in these businesses, including marketing. Marketing expertise and refined strategies are often relied upon to generate profitability, yet marketing alone will not get…
How Can a Small Business Get Started With A Marketing Services Company?
If done correctly, small business advertising can prove to be a marvelous tool to boost product sales, which directly translates to more revenue and success for any small business. Of course, getting started with it is not an easy task, and you may need the help of a marketing services company. Nonetheless, if used to…
Branding Lessons from Trees
Although as marketers, we tend to talk about brands in never-changing absolutes – the reality is that brands evolve. They adapt. They grow. Their roots spread deeper and their ideals reach ever-higher reaching for loftier and more audacious goals – not unlike trees spreading their branches toward sunlight. Just like trees, brands need to morph, to…
Marketing Resolutions for 2011
It’s that uncomfortable time of year when we take stock of our lives and make resolutions for the things in our lives that we want to change. The same should be true for our Marketing Plans. If you’ve been following along, you’ve probably written your 2011 Marketing Plan in October and November. But this is…
Visual Identity on a Budget
Brand strategy and positioning, image attributes, and brand architecture can become overly complex when there are hundreds of thousands of dollars involved. Many small to mid-size companies (with fewer than 500 employees) want the same thinking and quality that define a major branding initiative. It is just too expensive. Seeing no alternative, these companies search…