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.

About Paradux Media Group

We’re a creative marketing agency that believes in doing things the human way.

From our office on Main Street in Eagle Point, Oregon, we’ve spent over 16 years helping real businesses connect with real people—through smart strategy, compelling design, and campaigns built on trust, not templates.

We don’t do cookie-cutter.

Every brand we work with is different, and we like it that way. Whether you need a website, a campaign, or just a clearer path forward, we’re here to help—with honest insight and hands-on support.

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Practice Patience

For local business owners worldwide and in Southern Oregon, the three keywords for opening or running a business are location, location, and location. In today’s economic and marketing environment, the new three keys to success are patience, patience, and patience. From a financial standpoint, disposable income doesn’t exist like it did a few years ago.…

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Brand Development Doesn’t Have to be Expensive

I’m continually amazed at how often we, in the marketing profession and those in business, assume that brand development has to be expensive! This misnomer is honestly come by, though, because it’s easy to spend a lot of money on updating your brand image in good times. But having cash ready to pay isn’t a…

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Fun Marketing Campaigns Can Make Your Brand Memorable

What’s your claim to fame? How is your brand memorable in your community? Are you the go-to business for sponsoring non-profits either monetarily or with volunteers? Do you have a big annual blowout sale? Do you get wacky at Halloween or St. Patrick’s Day with fun marketing campaigns? Are you a crazy sports fan? The…

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Reputation Management: Your Brand on the Web

The Web. Twitter. Facebook. Biznik. Foursquare. Merchant Circle. Blogs and Comments. If you’re not at least aware of how these websites are already affecting your Brand – it’s time to figure out online reputation management, NOW. Whether or not you intentionally maintain a presence on social media, your business, your Brand, your customers, and your…

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Using Social Media Apps with Promotions

We’re rolling out social media promotions for a local client of ours. The business will be giving away a pair of season tickets to the Oregon Ducks 2010 Football season. A hot ticket! The Ducks went to the Rose Bowl last year and had been picked to win the Pac-10 again. The Ducks have sold…

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Social Marketing: Why it matters.

We do believe that social media and social marketing have radically altered advertising. We believe social media can level the playing field between Madison Avenue and local business owners. It’s not a fad; the landscape of social media has changed dramatically over the past three years, and what we see today will dramatically change three…

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Lessons in Brand Authenticity

I stumbled across a question posed on LinkedIn this morning that got me thinking. The question was: How do you see social platforms evolving in the future? While I answered it from a personal standpoint, I neglected to answer from a brand authenticity perspective—an oversight I aim to correct here. Social Media is evolving every…

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Who is your ideal customer? Do you really know?

I’ve met hundreds of local business owners in my years of selling media. When asked to describe their ideal customers or clients, they usually explained who they wished their customers were and not who their customers actually were. They may have seen a couple of BMWs or Mercedes pull into their parking lot, and since…

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Brand Identity: Branding by Walking Around

Branding by Walking Around is your opportunity to create the landscape your brand will come to life on. It’s the very foundation of your brand position.

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Top of Mind Branding

Branding is a long process. It’s not easy, it costs money, and it doesn’t create immediate traffic. Trust me, many times along this journey to a great brand, you’ll have to remind yourself why you’re embarking on this endeavor at all. So when those moments hit, just re-read this to remember why a great brand is critical to your success.

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Using Social Media Branding Strategy to Build Your Brand

Know your audience! Engage your audience. Social Media is no exception. With little room for error in today’s economy for small business owners, embracing the social media revolution and using it correctly with traditional media is essential. Just as there are keys to success in “Traditional Media,” there are those duplicate keys to success in…

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Keeping Media Buying Simple

For most small business owners, dealing with media buying is like an ever-changing alphabet soup. This is primarily because the language of media is cluttered with acronyms. And understanding each acronym is necessary to get the most out of your media buy. AQH, GRP’s CPM, CPP, before web banners, unique users, and social media… for…

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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 to “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 businesses just beginning branding often find it expensive and…

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