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.
How to Write an Effective Radio Ad
Radio advertising can be an incredibly effective way to promote your product or service. However, with so many businesses competing for listeners’ attention, it can be challenging to create an advertisement that stands out. Here are a few of our tips on how to write an effective radio ad that will grab listeners’ attention and…
Is Radio Advertising Right For My Business?
There was a time when it seemed like traditional media, such as television and radio advertising were on their way out as far as marketing was concerned. Everyone saw the advantages of digital media and quickly hopped on the bandwagon. However, they were soon to find out that traditional advertising still had a place in…
Marketing: Past, Present, Future
Marketing trends can help any organization determine where the organization has been, where it is now, and where it will be in the future. With any analysis, it is important to understand all the factors that make up these trends. It is necessary for the organization to establish clear goals to accomplish them. They need to…
A Savvy Small Business Owner’s Guide to Advertising in 2014
We are so excited to be presenting to small business entrepreneurs this morning at the Oregon Employer Council in Medford! This is a very special three hour event, presented in partnership with Southern Oregon University’s Small Business Development Center. We so excited to bring you an information-packed seminar showing you how to use Traditional Media, and Online…
Instagram: Get Your Small Business In the Picture
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much better is it than a 140 characters? We live in a visual society, it’s one of the reasons TV beats radio, and has helped create the success of ‘FACE’book. It’s no secret that the most shared and clicked upon items on Facebook are pictures.…
5 Insane (but true) Things About Marketing for Small Business
Marketing for Small Business is not for the feint of heart. As any small business owner knows, there are so many competing demands for your time and attention, that marketing your business often falls to the bottom of your list — although rightfully it should be the highest item on the list. Here are 5…
Facebook Pay To Play: What To Do – Small Business Oregon
For business owners Facebook is becoming more and more a “pay-to-play” model. You’ve put time and money into building your business pages ‘likes’, creating relationships, content creation and curation, So what do you do? On the one hand, businesses have never before had a free media platform through which to build our brand and communicate…
A Savvy Marketer’s Guide to Advertising by Paradux Media Group
In partnership with Southern Oregon University’s Small Business Development Center, the Oregon Employer Council is pleased to bring you an information packed seminar regarding the utilization of Social Media and Marketing. The Presenters, Paradux Media Group is a full service advertising agency specializing in delivering a message that will help your business stand out from…
A Marketing Professional’s Guide to Kickstarter
Marketers looking to jump start their businesses have a fiscally sound new tactic. Kickstarter.com is leading the surge in crowdfunding, which enables everyday people to support projects big and small in exchange for a predetermined incentive. If you have a great idea, Kickstarter and platforms like it offer the easiest way to raise capital without…
Tisha Oehmen’s Interview with Bill Meyer about Finding Brand
I had a great opportunity to sit down with Bill Meyer this morning, on his Radio Show that airs on KMED 1440, to talk about my new book, Finding Brand: The Brand Book Tutorial. We had a great talk about: The differences between advertising and branding. Why branding matters to businesses of all sizes – from…
Need SEO, Web Design, and Advertising From One Company? No Problem
When your business starts to have a presence online with a website, social media, or blog, there are a lot of moving targets and important pieces to the puzzle. How easy is it for your potential customers to find you? Is your site optimized? Is your logo appropriate, and does your website need a makeover?…
A Little Bit about Paradux Media Group
Who are Our Best Clients? We’re interested in working with businesses that have a clear vision of where they’re going. In our experience, business owners who have vision for where the business is going, allows us to do our very best work. The reason is that we work from a strategic basis. Everything we do…
Branding in a Multi-Media World
As I was looking for a picture to pair with my last post, Why Branding Matters for Businesses of All Sizes, I came across a photo set from Troy Thompson (Travel 2.0) on Flickr and was struck by the strong visual he created to demonstrate the implications of branding in a multi-media world. We all know advertising…
How a Creative Ad Agency Can Save You Time and Money
I don’t think that there is anyone in business today that isn’t interested in saving both time and money. Yet many small business and mid-sized businesses miss one of the single best methods for saving time and money when they fail to work with a creative ad agency. There are lots of reasons that go into…
All in the Circle of Likeability
We are often asked about our philosophy regarding marketing and buying media. In general is, “it all works if used properly and all fails if used improperly.” While the message and brand must remain on point, how people use and consume each media is different. How to best engage with individuals changes from media to…
Small Business Marketing Expenses & Planning
Every small business markets its products or services from the sole proprietor or freelancer, to the emerging corporation with fewer than 500 employees. The percentage of funds you allocate to marketing can vary, with some enterprises getting by on a shoestring budget while others may find that the their budgets are heavily tilted to getting…
Digital Signage – Visual communication at its best!!
Digital Signage is an important part of the communication medium. Well written content transforms digital signage from mere displays to a dynamic communications medium with an ability to inform, inspire and motivate that is unsurpassed. Given below are Five tips on how to conceive and write successful digital content. They include : Lead any and…
Old Time Communications for a Digital Age
The digital age has changed the way that we communicate, bringing smart phones and tablets to the forefront and pushing print publications to the back and eventually to certain extinction. Well, the print dinosaur is quite dead yet and, when used correctly, print and digital can form an alliance to communicate in ways that you…
SEO and Your Marketing Budget
SEO Where Does It Fit In My Marketing Plan? You’re a small business owner; you have a marketing budget but still most of your advertising endeavors are bills rather than part of a budget. You dabble in some print advertising, and maybe you do a little radio, so how does SEO fit in? Good question…Being…
How To Use Facebook Ads
Build ‘likes’ with Facebook Ads: Facebook comes down to the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. The ‘haves’ are the brands/pages utilizing what’s available, and the ‘have nots’ are the pages that just post, look at Facebook as FREE, and don’t invest anything other than time into Facebook — Facebook ads, no way, pay for Facebook.…