“Ducking In” is a collection of posts from guest bloggers who “Duck In” to share their wisdom, perspective, and ideas. Topics include marketing, advertising, branding, social media, web design, or SEO.
Unlike large corporations, small businesses simply don’t have the budget to drop a few million dollars into advertising and promoting their brand. This doesn’t mean, however, that they can’t engage in marketing. Small businesses can make up for their smaller budget with creativity and efficiently grow and maintain their consumer bases. Let’s look at 12… Read More
One of the most common forms of communication we use today is email. In fact, it’s not unusual for people to have more than a hundred emails land in their inbox in a single day. It’s overwhelming. It’s also easy to get ignored. If you’re finding that people aren’t opening or reading your emails, there… Read More
With the popularity of video marketing on the constant rise, one category of effective, engaging content often gets overlooked: audio. For both online and traditional marketing channels, if you’re ignoring audio’s potential to build your brand, you’re missing out on an important way to speak directly to your customers, clients and prospects. But just as… Read More
Being on the same page is still a popular idiom used today, even though we’re turning less actual paper pages in our digital age. With all of today’s modern technology available at our fingertips, it is important that we are all still communicating effectively and performing collaboratively as a team. Finance and marketing seldom see… Read More
Every business today should have some kind of integrated marketing communications system, but planning and executing an effective strategy can be difficult — though it’s necessary in order to gain a competitive advantage. However, with today’s multitude of media choices, marketing channels and formats, inbound marketing and shifts in buyer behavior, it’s hard to keep… Read More
By now, we’re all pretty tired of the phrase “content is king,” no matter how true it may be. With content’s continued domination in digital marketing strategy (a Content Marketing Institute study found that 58% of businesses plan to increase their content marketing budget in 2014), businesses have realized that broad tactics such as press… Read More
The purpose of all marketing is to reach out and generate interest in what you have to offer, thus bringing more business in. But who should you reach out to? A scattershot approach will ensure that somebody who sees your materials will take steps to learn more, but for every lead, money is being wasted… Read More
Most people are under the impression that lawyers will not do well with creating profiles for their firms on social media. However, this idea is very, very wrong. Law firms can actually benefit from creating social media profiles and could possibly use them to get more clients. There are a few things that law firms… Read More
Since Google’s search engine algorithm places a lot of value on content, many websites have started adding more and more pages to their websites. This is not always the best strategy though, because creating page after page can actually result in having a lot of lower quality content on your website if you are not… Read More
Many law firms have been pretty weary about social media in the past and a lot still are. Big law firms often instill policies that strictly say what their associates may and may not post on social media channels. Obviously there’s some sense in this since you don’t want your employees to negatively impact your… Read More
By all accounts Jason Sadler could be called an overnight success. The guy came out of NOWHERE and turned an everyday guy dilemma into a social media money-making empire. Jason took the agonizing pain of choosing a shirt to wear each day and turned it into iwearshirt.com, a social media marketing company that markets companies’… Read More
The decision to work with a PR firm, or start managing public relations in-house is always going to be a step forward for any business, as it means an expansion in visibility and improvement in company reputation. Having decided that public relations is a route that your business wishes to go down in regards to… Read More