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.

Online Research: What Happens After Your Survey is Completed?

Most of us already know the benefits of filling out online surveys; it’s one of the easiest and simplest forms of making money online, but what happens to the survey afterwards? If we can understand where it goes, how the data is used and what the process is then you’re more likely to continue taking…

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E-Mail Newsletters That You Want to Get Read

Having a mailing list is a highly valuable asset and something that you can use to make a huge amount of money and to promote your business and your products to a large number of people. If you want to make money from an e-book for instance, or from a course that you are going…

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Facebook Q and A at WESO

Tisha Oehmen will be speaking at the WESO meeting on September 13, 2012. Her topic will be YOUR Facebook questions!  Topics likely to be covered include: the state of Social Media today what the differences are between a personal Facebook page and a business Facebook page how to manage a business Facebook page how to…

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Your Advertising Dollars Should Be One Coordinated Marketing Effort

During the course of everyday business, it’s easy to get caught up in buying an advertising ad here, and making a donation there, and appearing in the same publication your competitor does. But all of it tends to happen as isolated incidents and not part of an integrated, coordinated strategy. This is a costly reality…

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B2B Branding Implications

Usually, when we talk about branding, we talk about B2C (business-to-consumer) companies and specific products, but we should also speak about B2B branding. If you’ve been following this blog for a long time, we believe all branding can favor every business, whether a product, service, B2C branding, or B2B branding. B2B Branding Makes Sense The…

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Political Campaign Marketing And Advertising

Political Marketing is not that much different than image marketing, after all once you throw your hat in the ring, and the die has been cast you have essentially become a product.  The upcoming year in Medford and Jackson County will have some heated races and won’t be immune to the mudslinging that is taking…

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Television Advertising… It’s Not What It Used To Be

Having spent nearly the last 20 years in marketing and advertising I’ve seen a lot of directional changes.  I was reading an article on the new fall television season and some of the numbers were truly eye popping.  What caught my attention was what was being deemed a hit. ‘New Girl ‘had just over 9 million…

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Writing the Brand Manifesto and Brand Tagline for the Brand Book

Now that you’ve had the opportunity spend some time getting acquainted with your Brand for your Brand Book, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and write (or include) your Brand Manifesto and Tagline. (If you’ve been following Finding Brand for awhile now, you might recall me addressing manifestos before in The Secret Sauce.) The…

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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…

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Can We Teach an Old Media New Tricks?

It seems that traditional media has learned a little over the past 15 years with the announcement that The Washington Post Company has officially launched its full-service Facebook marketing and advertising agency SocialCode. The agency will offer Page management, app development, social commerce, fan monetization, message testing, and advertising through Facebook’s Ads, but they still…

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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…

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So What’s Your Social Media Strategy?

So what’s your social media strategy?  I’m sure that when it comes to most marketing endeavors that you attach some strategy to it. Have you done that for social media?  No I’m not talking about an ROI, I’m talking strategy. What is the base for your social media, Facebook?  Twitter?  Is location based social media…

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Your Brand Manifesto: Your Secret Sauce

OK, so you’ve found your new brand position and tagline. You’ve taken the time to discuss it with your key stakeholders and get their buy-in. Now what? Well, my friends, now comes the FUN part! The first thing you’re going to need to write is your brand manifesto. In a short paragraph, what does your company…

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How to Create a Brand

We feel the rightness of creating a brand in our bones. Marketing and advertising agencies tell us that we’re supposed “create a brand” and we believe them. After all, who wouldn’t want a name like Nike, Kleenex, or Starbucks to call their own? But folks in business just beginning branding often find that it is expensive…

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