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.
Do You Have a Website?
71% of businesses in 2023 have a website. That’s a clear message that having a web presence is essential to running a modern business. 21% of people use the internet to find a local business daily. That doesn’t account for all the consumers who shop online, either. Regardless of the size of your business–from a…
Video Production for Website & Social Media
Are you ready to stand out from the crowd? If you are a business owner in Southern Oregon, you know how important it is to have high visibility on the web. We can offer you top-level video production for social media networks. With a series of highly useful videos, your business will reach a whole…
Website Design Medford Oregon
Your company needs a new website, so now what? For many the website can be and is the hub of their business so it’s important to know what to ask and look for, so you get the right Medford Oregon website design company for you and your business. As you search the internet for website…
Email List Building Techniques Influence Your Brand Reputation
OK, confession first — because we work hard to build legitimate double-opt-in lists for our business and our clients, I’m more militant about this than the average person might be, but…aren’t you as sick as I am of getting spam email that you never asked for, doesn’t enrich your life, and just wastes your time?…
Four Step To Get Your Small Business G+ Ready
The jury is still out on how deep Google+ will penetrate the mainstream audience. It is the fastest growing social media platform to date, so if you are a small business owner you have to have an eye on it. Here are four steps as a small business owner that you should be looking at…
Brand History: Start at the Beginning of the Brand Book
As I mentioned in the last post, we’re going to be building our sample Brand Book on the Rubber Duckie Brand. The reasons for choosing this brand over any other are varied but include being a “duck,” not having vigilant brand guardians searching the web for every unauthorized mention, and being both iconic and well-known.…
The Heavens Parted and Delivered the Brand Book
In December, I wrote a quick blog post called “Does Your Brand have a Brand Book?” in response to The Santa Brand Book from Quietroom. Since then, that post has been the most frequently visited post on the Finding Brand Blog, and it’s obvious that there is a significant need for a brand guidelines template. The…
Do You Enjoy Working on Your Website?
Websites. Lately I’ve been talking with lots of business owners about their websites, and the stories out there about them are truly terrifying! I’m astonished! When did it get to commonplace for service providers to hold their clients’ hostage to their services? To ignore, to intimidate, and to charge an arm and three legs for…
Always Be Willing To Learn
Life is all about learning, and if you are not learning then you are not living. Paradux Media Group has grown immensely over the past 18 months, consistently adding new features and departments so our clients can truly have an all-in-one advertising agency. With the explosion of social media and all the other marketing possibilities…
Finding Brand on Paradux Media Group!
It may look a little different than it usually does, but I promise, it’s the same Finding Brand you’ve grown accustomed to. We decided that it was time to consolidate websites and to bring our blogs “in house.” The factors that went into this decision included: maintenance on three sites (Paradux Media Group, Beyond the…
The Groupon Effect
While there is plenty of debate over Groupon, this blog is not going to be dealing with “does it train consumers to only buy things at 50% off,” but rather, to talk about one particular client that we have that just recently did a Groupon and their results. While a lot of Groupons you…
What’s Your Email Address Saying About Your Brand?
Take a quick moment and look at the email address you hand out to your customers and clients. Does it end in any of the following? @yahoo.com @live.com @msn.com @gmail.com @hotmail.com @aol.com @mac.com If the answer is yes, then it’s time to think about the subtle message you’re sending every time you give out your…
What’s Your Logo Saying About Your Brand?
Logo. Your brand needs one. It represents your company, it communicates the subtext of your brand in one nice, neat, package. Ada Stoy defines a logo by saying ,”A logo is not just a piece of graphics – it is something that echoes a business’s brand through the use of symbols, fonts, images, colors, and…
Does Your Agency Walk Their Talk?
New year, new business plans – and that means if you don’t have a marketing agency you might begin looking for one, or if you have one, you may be thinking of looking for another. Then again, maybe you’re perfectly happy with the status quo, in which case just file this under “something to think…
Marketing Endings and Beginnings
(or where we’ve been and where we’re going) Welcome to the very last day of 2010 — and what a year, decade it has been! Think back 10 years and try to remember what our world was like in 2000. We had happily “survived” Y2K intact. But that’s not to say our world was peaceful….…
Does Your Brand Have a Brand Book?
I’m not quite sure how I came across this hilarious post today from The Quietroom about their Santa brand book, but I’m glad I did — for several reasons. First (and most obviously) it’s hilarious! Having written some of these brand books myself, I have to say — this is the brand book I always wished…
How Many Layers Does Your Social Media Have?
Social Media, like every other advertising medium works best for your brand when it’s layered. But the beauty of social media is that it’s easy to layer. Here are the top 5 ways to layer your social media for maximum effectiveness: Use Facebook as a collection point addresses for your email newsletter. Your Facebook page…
Email Newsletters – Powerful Communication Tools
Great marketing is about layering. It’s about creating many different channels of communication that all support each other and build on each other. We’ve previously talked about using traditional media to augment your social media efforts, but how many of you use an email blast-newsletter to communicate with customers and potential customers? If the answer…
Competing for Attention
As a small business owner, I know, it is HARD to keep the focus on growing your business when the needs of your current business continually take all your time and attention. But here’s the thing we all know, intuitively, if we don’t focus our attention on doing those things that grow our business, we…
Syncing up Your Messages
I’ve sat in a lot of rooms lately with small business owners and discussed the imperative nature of syncing all their outbound messages together. And while it sounds good, it’s very often not something happens with great regularity. But doing so will help you to maximize your brand message and get the highest levels of…