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.
5 Trends Your Marketing Team Should Budget For In 2015
Choosing the best ways to market your product or service isn’t always easy. A company needs to stay ahead of current marketing trends if they want to see a successful campaign. That being said, there are many things your company can budget for ahead of time so that your marketing team is ready for 2015.…
6 Buttons to Push to Make Your Online Writing Spread like Wildfire
Successful marketer and author Mark Hughes says that for your online content get you read as much as you need it to be read in order for you to become well-known and profitable, you need to push people’s buttons. Some people recoil from that, saying that that is “manipulative”. Well, if your writing and communication…
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 American Dream Can be Your Brand
A bit of a rant today — I’ve seen several situations recently where an individual has overcome some pretty impressive life challenges, pulled themselves up against the odds, conceived of, and opened a business that is operating that business in the black in this economy. Any of those alone would be a significant accomplishment, but…
Preparing Your Brand for the Stage
Have you ever stopped to think about how often your is on stage in the public eye? It’s ALWAYS on stage. It never takes a break, it never retreats to the dressing room, and it certainly never blends into the audience. It’s always displayed alone on the stage under the glaring unforgiving spotlight. Your brand needs…
Branding Foundations
Every brand needs to be built on a strong foundation. While the materials the blocks are made of change from company to company, their purpose, form, and necessity do not vary. The first foundational block of your brand is the vision you hold for your company. Why does your company exist? Where are you going?…