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.
Marketing to Businesses vs. Consumers: What’s the Difference?
In the vast and ever-evolving advertising and marketing landscape, one size rarely fits all. The strategies that work wonders for converting consumer customers might not yield the same results when targeting commercial clients. To navigate this terrain, businesses need a tailored approach that understands the distinct needs, behaviors, and tactics of successful marketing to businesses…
Rebranding Your Business: Staying Relevant and Thriving
Recently, 7-Eleven announced a transformation to its iconic Slurpee beverage–something just about anyone who has grown up in America (or any other country 7-Eleven is in) has likely had at least a few times in their lives. Why would a company with an already successful product spend time and money to rebrand it? Because in…
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…
Do You Have A Recruitment Marketing Strategy?
For February 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the nation’s average unemployment rate dropped to 3.8%. Low unemployment means it is more difficult for companies like yours to find the qualified candidates needed to fill open positions. If you take a walk through your downtown streets or visit the local shopping mall, you’ll see…
Achieving Holiday Sales in Unprecedented Times
If you’re unaware of the holiday product scarcity concerns raging throughout American consumerism right now, you must be living in a cave. It seems you can’t turn on the television or scroll through social media without hearing talk about empty store shelves, delivery delays, and backordered inventory. As of the beginning of November, Amazon Prime…
Brand Awareness Through Video
Brand awareness has evolved so much over the last 10 years. Prior to digital marketing, we gained an awareness of popular brands by television ads, radio spots, and even direct mailings. Now, there are a variety of marketing resources readily available, so building video brand awareness has never been easier. Understanding Brand Awareness Building brand…
A Guide to Help Small Businesses Create a Great Annual Marketing Plan
A great marketing plan is important for many small businesses to be successful. There are multiple parts to creating an effective marketing plan, which is why small businesses have to figure out what they would like to accomplish. With that being said, here is a guide to help small businesses develop a great annual marketing…
Why Video Marketing Is Important To Your Business
There’s no doubt that videos marketing is becoming more integrated into our everyday interactions. From social media posts to testimonials and product demos, videos continue to command a huge percentage of internet traffic. This explains why YouTube is the second largest search engine today raking in a whopping 3 billion searches a month. As such incorporating videos…
Five Reasons Why Branding Is Vital To A Small Business
Why branding is vital, regardless of the size of your business. Many small businesses forego the tried and true methods of bigger corporations. Sometimes this works, but when a small business fails to effectively brand itself, that can have resounding detrimental effects. 1. Company Cohesiveness Having a “brand” is essentially having a message and look…
Is TV Advertising Right for My Business?
So many businesses have joined the digital marketing bandwagon that you may not have thought about TV advertising lately. Although television falls in the same category as other traditional channels, it still has some appealing advantages. Audience Regardless of whether you buy advertising time on a local station or a national network, television can reach…
How Do Digital Ads Work?
The landscape for advertising has drastically changed over the past ten years. Many companies have started to successfully use digital ads to generate leads and build a following. If your company is thinking about how digital ads work and incorporating this type of advertising into your overall strategy, here are five reasons why they may…
What are the initial steps of brand building?
Apple, Coca-Cola, Nokia, Starbucks are examples of some brands that when mentioned can bring an image (probably the logo) into anyone’s mind. These are brands or companies that have spent time and energy brand building a strong and ‘loyal’ reputation for themselves over the years. A strong brand can make your gain a loyal “following” without putting…
How to Get Your Finance and Marketing Executives on the Same Page
Being on the same page is still a popular idiom used today, even though we’re turning less actual paper pages in our digital age. With all of today’s modern technology available at our fingertips, it is important that we are all still communicating effectively and performing collaboratively as a team. Finance and marketing seldom see…
Strategy Toolkit for 2015
As you might be able to guess from our affinity for ducks here at Paradux Media Group, Mike and Tisha are pretty big University of Oregon Duck Football fans. (see if you can find them in the gigapixel panoramic photo here) In fact, one of us (Mike) is on our way right now to Levi…
A Declaration of Passion
I have talked a lot throughout this blog about the power of a manifesto, why they are important, and how to draft them. However, I was talking with a client this week and I described it, for the first time, as a “Declaration of Passion.” Moreover, in that moment, the somewhat nebulous concept became clear and…
Save money with Do-It-Yourself online Public Relations
In the current challenging economic climate, the cost of hiring an external Public Relations agency can be just too much for many small businesses to afford. But without effective and smart PR, how is any business to survive and come through these difficult times? The answer might be DIY online PR. With a little insider…
Facebook Do You Have A Facebook Strategy? – The Beginning
What is your Facebook strategy, do you have one? Is it about getting people to ‘like’ your page, ‘like’ posts, comment on posts, drive traffic to your website, visibility, likeability, engagement, awareness, promote products, sell products or services, expert status, public relations, customer feedback, to make money? Your answer is probably yes, yes all of…
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…
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 create 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…
Identify Your Brand Position by Using Brand Keywords
With your Brand’s history complete with the brand book, it’s time to start distilling the keywords for your brand. If you haven’t done this exercise yet, a Word Cloud is an excellent way to tease them out. Identify Brand Keywords for the Brand Book Copy the text you wrote for the brand book on the…