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Your business isn’t too small to hire an advertising agency
A successful small business has two essential elements to it. One, the core service or the product. Two, marketing and advertising. A mediocre product or service with great advertising will always outsell a great product with mediocre advertising. Time and time, advertising has proven it’s worth. Who doesn’t like Apple’s commercials? They’re beautifully woven around…
Connecting Your Brand With Social Media Advertising
Connecting a brand with a well-received online presence is not a task that is easily achievable overnight. Knowing how to properly and effectively connect with your brand when considering social media advertising is essential to maximize your online reach and your ability to attract new followers and prospective customers. Social Media Advertising Strategies. Research Your…
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Visitors. The Effectiveness of Using Images in your Digital Marketing Campaigns
Including the right digital marketing images for your company can pay huge dividends. Over 65 percent of all people are visual learners. Over 90 percent of all material that your brain processes is visual and presentations that include visuals are over 43 percent more persuasive. Therefore, if you are planning a campaign, you need to…
How to Execute a Successful #GivingTuesday Marketing Campaign
With the growing popularity of #GivingTuesday, many business owners are looking to launch effective campaigns that engage donors and raise funds for worthy causes. If you’re planning your Giving Tuesday campaign, now is the time to implement strategies to maximize your impact and drive engagement. Below, we’ve outlined some essential techniques to help you capture…
Marketing Guide to Boosting Online Sales This Cyber Monday
As the day after Thanksgiving approaches, businesses gear up for one of the year’s biggest shopping events: Cyber Monday. Yet, while many business owners recognize the potential of this day, they often overlook how powerful and effective online marketing strategies can be in maximizing their sales. By strategically planning for Cyber Monday, your business can…
Choosing Your Logo Color
Your logo is probably the first thing that comes to mind when people think about your brand, so it makes sense to give it a memorable design. This should include color, but that doesn’t always come to mind when business owners are deciding on a great logo. Logo color can tell people a lot about…
How to Build Brand Awareness for Scalable Momentum
You might offer the best service or product available under the sun, but if your customers don’t know you exist, your growth will remain stagnant. In our experience, visibility is the fuel that powers the engine of your business. To move from a best-kept secret to a market leader, you must intentionally build brand awareness.…
Strategic Brand Building: How to Scale Your Reputation and Momentum
In our experience, most business owners mistake a logo for a brand. While icons like the Apple silhouette or the Coca-Cola script are instantly recognizable, they are merely the visual anchors for decades of intentional brand building. A logo is a mark; a brand is a reputation. To thrive in today’s landscape, you must move…
Accelerate Growth with Strategic Business-to-Business Marketing
Many modern enterprises underestimate the raw power of a cohesive brand identity in the professional marketplace. Business-to-business marketing is not just about moving product; it is about building a reputation that acts as a multiplier for every sales effort your team deploys. We have found that businesses succeeding at this level often see a 20%…
Branding: A Candid Conversation About the Soul of Your Business
What is the goal of internal branding? The goal of internal branding is to align a company’s workforce with its core values and mission. By clearly articulating why the business exists and what it stands for, business owners can transform employees from simple workers into passionate brand ambassadors. This alignment ensures consistency in customer experience…
Creative Marketing Ideas: Accelerating Momentum Without the Corporate Budget
Marketing expenditures often represent a significant line item for small and mid-sized businesses. However, strategic communication remains the most critical pathway to securing repeat business and identifying new customers. While smaller organizations may not have the capital to compete with the massive ad spends of global corporations, they possess a distinct advantage: agility. By deploying…
Best Marketing Books for 2026: Navigating the Era of Brandtelling and Human Connection
In today’s very competitive business world, it’s harder and harder to get people’s attention and trust. One of the best ways to do so is by using a technique known as “brandtelling,” which has grown in popularity as we move into 2026. Using the personal touch of storytelling to attract customers is a strategy that…
Small Budget, No Problem: Creative Marketing Ideas for Small Business
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…
Choose Your Brand, if Not Now, When Will You? [VIDEO]
So many of our clients get stuck when it comes time to evaluate the design services and choose their brand position and their logo. Understandably, the moment where you choose your brand is a big decision! What seems to happen is that people try to compare their new brand and logo to an existing one —…
Branding, Marketing, and Positioning: Understanding the Differences
How important is branding to your business? In 2024, 81% of consumers said they need to trust a brand to consider buying. 55% of brand first impressions are visual. And 77% of consumers prefer shopping with brands they follow on social media. So what is branding? What role does it play in marketing, and how…
How a Brand Style Guide Helps Build Your Company’s Image
Apple topped Interbrand’s annual list of best global brands for the third consecutive year, increasing its brand value by 43% to $170.276 billion. Apple attributes much of its success to a marketing philosophy initially laid out by founding investor Mike Markkula, emphasizing core goals, maintaining a professional image, and showing empathy toward the end user.…
Brand Camp!
We’ve spent a lot of time over the last few weeks conducting Brand Camps with a client that is getting ready to roll out a new brand. A Brand Camp is a diagonal cross-section of the staff with about 10–15 people in attendance. The Camps last about 1.5 hours, and during that time, the company…
What is a Brand Narrative?
I often get asked, “What is a Brand Narrative”? And the answer is simply your brand story. It’s both the history of and the future focus for your business. All tied up in one tight strategy. What is a brand narrative doing for my business? Simply put, your brand narrative provides context to your team, continuity…
Best Brand Book Examples List
Brand books are essential for any business looking to establish and maintain a strong brand identity. A brand book typically includes guidelines on a company’s logo, color palette, typography, voice, and messaging. It serves as a comprehensive reference that ensures consistency across all online and offline marketing materials. When it comes to finding the best…
What does your brand position say?
What is a Brand Position? At its core, your brand position is the unique space that your brand occupies in the minds of your target customers compared to other players in the marketplace. It’s how people think, feel, and talk about your business. Whether your brand comes across as warm, friendly, reliable, sophisticated, or quirky, your…
