For small-to-mid-sized businesses to grow in a tight economy, it is critical to differentiate from the competition. One of the most important routes to being unique is through advertising. An advertising agency can work with any size business to generate an advertising campaign that garnishes branding and help create a name. Advertising agencies are highly-specialized… Read More
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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… Read More
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… Read More
Twitter Rules, Let’s Not and Say We Did!
photo credit: digitpedia Why must we attach so many rules and expectations to what we do? Every day people seem to install new rules of how we should tweet. If we all followed the same rules and tweeted the same way how boring would that be? Isn’t the boredom from traditional media what helped create… Read More
The Groupon Effect
While there is plenty of debate over Groupon, this blog is not going to be dealing with “does it train consumers to only buy things at 50% off,” but rather, to talk about one particular client that we have that just recently did a Groupon and their results. While a lot of Groupons you… Read More
Television vs Social Media
In part one of my comparisons of traditional media marketing comparisons, we looked at Radio vs. Twitter. In Part two we’re going to compare Television and Youtube. From a business owner and marketer Television is best known to make stars and images. As a business, Television is best used in your marketing plan to create… Read More
Radio vs Social Media
The title is a little misleading as it’s not really pitting one up against the other as much as trying to point out more of the similarities. A lot of small business owners invest in radio every month. These same business owners scratch their head and wonder what or how does social media fit into… Read More
Talking to No One
I’ll always be a softy for radio. I spent too many years in the industry for it not to be in my blood. I sometimes wish it would go away, it reminds me of that old football injury that makes it hard to move in the morning but you wouldn’t trade the pain for the… Read More
Can We Teach an Old Media New Tricks?
It seems that traditional media has learned a little over the past 15 years with the announcement that The Washington Post Company has officially launched its full-service Facebook marketing and advertising agency SocialCode. The agency will offer Page management, app development, social commerce, fan monetization, message testing, and advertising through Facebook’s Ads, but they still… Read More