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Avoiding FOMO in Your Modern Marketing Strategy
In the business world, it’s common for executives to feel change is inevitable, and implementing new technologies and strategies in all aspects of their company is imperative for survival, let alone success. Jeff Bezos said, “What’s dangerous is not to evolve.” When companies scramble to change their plans regularly, it’s easy for managers to experience…
What are the Limitations of Performance Marketing?
Performance marketing sounds like the ultimate in marketing endeavors. The term was coined early on with the advent of digital marketing, specifically around the introduction of Google Ad Words. Performance marketing describes specific marketing tactics designed to achieve goals—defined as clicks, conversions, leads, bookings, purchases, etc. It’s about attaining direct results tied to specific marketing…
Why Is Social Media Content Important?
If you own or manage a business anywhere in southern Oregon, then your business needs to be generating social media content. If not, then your business is going to seriously lag behind the competition. Here are some points that you need to consider. Social Media Use in Southern Oregon There are approximately 2.46 billion people…
Is Television Advertising Dead?
With so many advertising channels available in today’s world, marketers may find themselves confused about where traditional channels such as television stand. There are some who claim that television advertising is on the way out and will eventually be replaced with all digital modes, but we argue that this cannot be further from the truth.…
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…
How To Find A Good Production Company
If you are a small business owner you might want to consider making a marketing video or a promotional video to build up your brand. There are a lot of affordable options out there but you need to take some time to select the right production company for your needs. Here are some top tips…
5 Examples Of Effective & Unique Social Media Campaigns
Starting a new business has become much easier and more affordable now that advances in technology give even the smallest operations the power to reach millions of potential customers. Cloud services, for instance, provide inexpensive storage and business software solutions, while smart phone applications enable entrepreneurs to serve their customers from anywhere in the world.…
Television Advertising: Understanding Changing Television Advertising Today
After nearly two decades working in marketing and advertising, I’ve watched the industry shift in dramatic ways — and few areas have changed as quickly as television. A recent look at the fall TV season made that especially clear, highlighting just how much changing television advertising is reshaping what qualifies as a “hit.” Take New…
Articulate the Brand Personality for the Brand Book
Now that we’ve created our list of keywords and established the relationship between them, it’s time for our next step in how to make a Brand Book and develop our brand personality. Articulating your Brand Personality is an integral component of building a Brand Book. Brand Personality starts to breathe life into the brand, making…
How Local Community Engagement Amplifies Your Social Impact
Every so often, something happens that reminds us of the power of local community engagement. When Extreme Makeover: Home Edition announced that its 200th episode would take place right here in the Rogue Valley, word spread instantly. And within hours, our feeds turned into a wave of generosity, excitement, and hometown pride. Businesses across Medford began offering…
Five Ways to Create Local Loyalty
Earning local loyalty today is harder than ever. With constant discounts, social deal sites, and a race to the lowest price, customers are often pulled toward whatever looks convenient in the moment. For local business owners who have invested years into serving their community, that shift can feel discouraging. But loyalty isn’t gone — it…
Five Ways to Increase Your Local Social Media Presence
Building a strong local social media presence begins with shared values. Last week, over lunch with a new friend, we found ourselves talking less about marketing tactics and more about what guides the choices we make — as business owners, as consumers, and as neighbors. The conversation drifted to our community’s Humane Society, a no-kill…
Brand History: Start at the Beginning of the Brand Book
As I mentioned in the last post, we will build our sample Brand Book on the Rubber Duckie Brand. The reasons for choosing this Brand over any other are varied. Still, they include being a “duck,” not having vigilant brand guardians searching the web for every unauthorized mention, and being both iconic and well-known. As…
The Heavens Parted and Delivered the Brand Book
In December, I wrote a quick blog post called “Does Your Brand Have a Brand Book?” in response to The Santa Brand Book from Quietroom. Since then, that post has been the most frequently visited post on the Finding Brand Blog, and it’s evident that there is a significant need for a brand guidelines template. The…
Managing Your Website with WordPress: Regain Control and Strengthen Your Brand
Websites are an essential part of your business’s online presence. Yet, too many business owners share unsettling stories about being held hostage by their website service providers. Managing your website with WordPress can breathe a breath of fresh air into your website strategy. When Did Website Management Become So Difficult? It’s astonishing how often service…
Benefits of Numbered Blog Posts: 5 Reasons To Have 5 Reasons
I need to write more blogs with several whys or reasons to do so, so I decided to write a blog on why I should do it more often… The first reason is that a blog associated with several reasons why to or why not to will be read much more than a blog without…
When Paying for Facebook ‘Likes’ is a GREAT Thing
What a Facebook ‘like’ is worth is always a hot topic. There are many different perspectives, and you rarely find the same answer with the exact dollar figure attached. There are so many other variables, like what business you are in. Social Media has proven to be a GREAT medium to get the word out…
Always Be Willing To Learn: Continuous Learning in SEO
Life is all about learning; if you are not learning, you are not living. Paradux Media Group has grown immensely over the past 18 months, consistently adding new features and departments so our clients can have an all-in-one advertising agency. With the explosion of social media and all the other existing marketing possibilities, it has…
Website Consolidation for Improved SEO: A Strategy for Business Owners
It might look a little different than before, but rest assured, it’s still the same Paradux Media Group, you know. We recently decided to consolidate multiple websites, bringing all our content and blogs “in-house” under one roof. This change wasn’t just about making things look neater—it was about solving a problem many businesses face: fragmented…
Buy Local …Ramblings and Thoughts
There have been numerous ‘buy local’ campaigns over the past few years. Many of these campaigns have been economic-driven, as people have seen many long-standing local businesses disappear due to the economy. Project 3/50 has used social media well to spread its philosophy of shopping locally. Last year, American Express had a great social media campaign…
