In the business world, it’s common for executives to feel change is inevitable, and implementing new technologies and strategies in all aspects of their company is imperative for survival, let alone success. Jeff Bezos said, “What’s dangerous is not to evolve.” When companies scramble to change their plans regularly, it’s easy for managers to experience… Read More
Angela Peacor
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.
How Email Filters Break Down Communication
Relying on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to send promotional material to current and potential customers is pretty easy if you’re willing to pay the postage. Send a file to the print house, have your materials printed, and often they will also address each mailpiece and deliver them straight to the post office for you. … Read More
What are the Limitations of Performance Marketing?
Performance marketing sounds like the ultimate in marketing endeavors. The term was coined early on with the advent of digital marketing, specifically around the introduction of Google Ad Words. Performance marketing describes specific marketing tactics designed to achieve goals—defined as clicks, conversions, leads, bookings, purchases, etc. It’s about attaining direct results tied to specific marketing… Read More
Do You Have A Recruitment Marketing Strategy?
For February 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the nation’s average unemployment rate dropped to 3.8%. Low unemployment means it is more difficult for companies like yours to find the qualified candidates needed to fill open positions. If you take a walk through your downtown streets or visit the local shopping mall, you’ll see… Read More
Does Product Placement Work?
You don’t have to dig deep into many of the most popular movies of our day to see brand-name products, signage, and logos flash onto the screen. A fun exercise is to watch any movie’s high-action scenes–car chases or your favorite web-slinger racing through city streets–and count how many well-known brand names you can spot… Read More
Why it Makes Sense for You to be a Thought Leader in Your Industry
Thought leadership may be one of the newest popular buzzwords in business strategy. It’s somewhere up there with “lean manufacturing” and “influencer.” What is thought leadership, and is it really that important for business owners? Thought leaders are the go-to people in their field. For example, if you’re looking for ways to better lead and… Read More
Do You Know How You Stack up to the Competition?
Philip Kotler described the importance of understanding the competition with his quote: “Competitive advantage is a company’s ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.” To outperform your competition, you need to understand them. If you haven’t performed a competitive analysis recently, now is the perfect time to… Read More
Why We Use WordPress at Paradux Media Group, and You Should, Too
When companies think about creating or updating their websites, they go many different routes in developing their solutions. Simple “DIY” solutions like WIX are very tempting for new, small businesses, while larger, established companies often think coding their sites from scratch using “business branded” content management systems like Adobe Experience are the way to go…. Read More
Do Google Reviews Help Your Business?
The quick answer is YES. Here’s how and why. First of all, Google holds 90% of the search engine market share. Just as “Google” has become a verb in our vernacular for “looking something up on the internet,” the majority of people worldwide use Google to search for everything from recipes to health advice, and… Read More
A Healthy Online Marketing Diet Shouldn’t Rely on Cookies
Google has discussed upcoming changes to and discontinuation of the use of third-party cookies within its widely popular browser, Chrome, for quite some time. Cookies are little bits of data that a website places on a visitor’s computer that allows it to track specific information. There are many kinds of cookies, and some are responsible… Read More
The Power of Collaboration
Collaboration is perhaps one of the most unused strategies for achieving success, likely due to our upbringing. In elementary school, we’re taught to work independently, not to cheat by asking someone else for the answer, and every student is tested independently. Later in life, “group projects” surface, yet those are often an abysmal failure, with… Read More
Are Billboards and Outdoor Advertising Still Relevant? Consumers say YES.
In 2021, the billboard and outdoor advertising industry in the United States was expected to reach $8.1 billion. Even though other advertising mediums have increased as social media and streaming services developed, the billboard industry has remained relatively unchanged over the past five years. What has changed is what outdoor advertising and billboards look like…. Read More
Optimize Your Website to Build Trust with Your Customers
87% of shoppers begin looking for a product with online searches. If your website isn’t coming up as an option when customers search for relevant products and services in your area, you are missing out on valuable sales. In marketing terms, we’re talking about search engine optimization or “SEO,” but really, it’s all about making… Read More
Why You Need a Professional Graphic Designer for Logo Work
Online software solutions make it appear simple to design or revamp your logo on your own. It seems that novice entrepreneurs are available around every corner to create logos and other supplementary material, likely using free or inexpensive canned software. Before you attempt a DIY project or hire a colleague’s son or daughter to work… Read More
Achieving Holiday Sales in Unprecedented Times
If you’re unaware of the holiday product scarcity concerns raging throughout American consumerism right now, you must be living in a cave. It seems you can’t turn on the television or scroll through social media without hearing talk about empty store shelves, delivery delays, and backordered inventory. As of the beginning of November, Amazon Prime… Read More
Convert Your Website into an Online Experience in 2022
Why does your business have a website? The answers from business owners vary greatly: “So customers can find us.” “To provide basic information like location and hours of operation.” “Because every business needs a website.” “To help customers learn about our products and services.” Regardless of why your company first published its website, the reasons… Read More
Are You Optimizing Your Company Values?
The fact that Disneyworld is celebrating its 50th-anniversary in 2021 brings a bit of sadness to me. All those balloons, fireworks, branded anniversary costumes, and television specials all remind me that it’s been 25 years since I worked at Disneyworld during their 25th-anniversary celebrations. With that in mind, I thought it would be apropos to… Read More
Optimizing Webinar Content on Your Website
Hosting webinars on your website is a great way to increase the SEO of your website and attract new customers. Remember, SEO represents the ability of search engines to make a connection between your site’s content and search engine requests. Websites with good SEO rank higher in search engine results than other similar sites. Developing… Read More
Changes to Advertising on Facebook
The magic of advertising on Facebook has long been attributed to the use of Facebook pixels. Website developers for a company add a Facebook pixel to their site’s coding, and the pixel records visitor’s behavior on the pages. Technically, the pixel adds a cookie to the user’s internet browser that communicates information back to the… Read More
Social Media Etiquette Unspoken Rules
Many businesses use social media as a fun way to connect and interact with their customers. In general, social media is more informal than other types of advertising, yet there are guidelines you can use to make it more effective. We refer to these as the unspoken rules of social media etiquette. First, here are… Read More