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.
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How to Evolve a Logo Without Losing Your Brand
Every strong brand eventually reaches a moment when its logo no longer reflects the organization it has grown into. The business has matured, the services have expanded, and expectations have shifted—yet the visual identity remains rooted in an earlier chapter. That’s when understanding how to evolve a logo becomes essential. At Paradux Media Group, we’ve…
Paradux Media Group Teaches Social Media at Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference
On April 23, 2012, Paradux Media Group’s Tisha Oehmen and Mike Frey led a breakout session at the Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference, held in Medford, Oregon. The conference brought together nonprofit leaders from across the state to share ideas, resources, and practical strategies for strengthening their organizations and expanding community impact. The Paradux Media Group…
Marketing Material For Your Business
You’ve launched your business—now it’s time to get seen, get remembered, and get chosen. The fastest way to do that is with marketing material for your business that looks credible, communicates value instantly, and supports every sales conversation you have. At Paradux Media Group, we treat print and brand collateral like performance assets: if it…
How to Avoid Being the Next Kmart – A Real Life Marketing Lesson
News recently came out that Kmart isn’t doing so hot right now. However, don’t outsiders always have the best perspective on issues like this, especially when it comes to seeing the true marketing lesson? We don’t have a dog in the fight or any care or reason not to give our unqualified honest opinion about…
How Will The No Track Button Affect Your Marketing Strategy
New initiatives have been announced to protect the privacy of online consumers. A “Do Not Track” button will be placed into web browsers to allow consumers to opt out of having companies keep track of their online data. When an Internet user searches the web, information about them is collected and used to generate ads…
SEO: Small Businesses Medford Oregon
Why Local SEO For Medford Oregon Business Owners: So why is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so important to a Medford Oregon business? Well it begins with over 40% of consumers won’t shop at a business or brand if they can’t research you or find your business on-line. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) allows not only…
Five Similarities Between Retail And Online Stores Every Online Marketer Needs To Understand
In the modern information age, it seems as if anyone can start an online store. Everyone knows that if you want to sell cookies online, it doesn’t take very long to go from having no online presence to establishing a website fully capable of taking orders. Heck, if it takes you longer than “overnight,” you’re…
5 Marketing Lessons Derived from KONY 2012
I’m sure you’re going to get sick of seeing this KONY 2012 video everywhere in the next few months, I hope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc And regardless of the way the KONY 2012 Invisible Children’s organization behind it distributes its money, it’s a fascinating, ongoing, lesson in the way that social media allows average individuals to flex their…
New Facebook Timeline for Business Pages
What do the new changes to Facebook Timeline for Business Pages mean? Maybe not as much as you think!! There is certainly some housekeeping that needs to be taken care of. There is the new cover image, the organizing of apps, timeline, pinning and starring, creating milestones, changing dates to posts, and the pretty sweet new…
Coordinate Your Advertising with a Marketing Strategy Reset
Do you feel like your marketing plan lacks strategy? Or perhaps you’ve been doing the same things year after year without considering if there are more effective ways to market your business. Regardless of your reason, it’s not uncommon for business owners to realize they need a marketing strategy reset to overhaul their advertising and…
Facebook Timeline For Business Pages
NOTE: If you’re interested in learning more about these changes, check out our FREE webinar on the changes you can expect for the Facebook Timeline for Business Pages. Don’t look now! Facebook Timeline For Business Pages: It appears the new facebook timeline for business pages is finally be arriving. Word has it, and it makes…
Marketing the Evolutionaries Way
There’s a new book out by Randy Harrington and Carmen Voilleque called “Evolutionaries: Transformational Leadership: The Missing Link in Your Organizational Chart.” Randy and Carmen are brilliant, inspirational, and most of all, observant. They are consultants by trade, and any organization lucky enough to work with one or both of these individuals is vastly better…
The Real Enemy: Social Media Fragmentation
Fragmentation—whether in traditional media or across today’s social platforms—remains one of the biggest challenges facing small business owners. Social media fragmentation doesn’t just mean “more options.” In practice, it often means more work, more cost, and less effective reach. We’ve addressed social media fragmentation before, but the pattern continues to repeat itself. New platforms emerge,…
Your Brand is About Emotion
I know I’ve talked about it in the past, but it bears repeating, your brand is entirely about evoking an emotional response…we buy from brands we like. In fact, if your brand invokes anything less than passion, you’re missing the mark and that means you’re missing opportunity. While I work with, and talk about, this…
Have Interest In Pinterest It Could Be For You
So what’s the fastest growing social network? If you didn’t say Pinterest you’re wrong. So what is Pinterest you say? Pinterest.com is a virtual pin board, where you collect and admire images found all over the web. It’s like a bulletin board, only you are pinning up web images, on an online board. You can pin whatever…
Developing Transparency in a Digital Age
Even though we’re all adults here, let’s be honest; talking to strangers is sometimes awkward and uncomfortable. This is especially true when you have to contact a company that seems like a faceless organization out to get your hard-earned money. You can prevent this from happening to your company, though! When Dorothy and the rest…
The Secret to a Great Brand is Just One Thing
http://youtu.be/ml-xI1jbu_U Know what the secret to a great brand is? One thing – just one thing. Focusing on one thing when branding for nonprofits is admittedly the hardest part of creating an amazing brand. The trick, as Jack Palance in “City Slickers” reveal, is figuring out what your “One Thing” is. It’s going to take…
Think Different! Build A Campaign
It’s a great time for small local businesses to “Think Differently” and create campaign messages and not immediate hit and run messages. The most remembered commercials: Outside of Apples 1984 commercial, the most remembered commercials, are campaigns, not commercials. National companies and big boxes, think that way, they see the benefits of the campaign while the small…
