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Online Advertising in the Age of Adwords

With the advent of our new economy, we’re seeing a significant shift from traditional media spending to online advertising. This transformation has been driven by the evolving landscape of how consumers interact with brands and the need for businesses—small businesses—to maximize the impact of their limited marketing budgets. If you’re a small business owner, understanding…

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Traditional Media Created Social Media

Before conglomeration, there was a time when radio, television, and print were local community outlets. The big three were locally owned and focused on the local community. Most decisions for communities regarding their major media are made thousands of miles away. What music to play, what programming to air, and cuts made in print to…

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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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5 Reasons a Local Business Owner Should be Involved in Social Media

There are many reasons that every local business should be involved in local social media. I’ve found that if it takes more than five reasons, they are afraid of what they don’t understand or of change. To go beyond five, you are just reaffirming to someone who believes in what you are talking about, and…

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Media Fragmentation, It Always Seems To Happen

How much has social media fragmentation affected your audience, and at what cost? Traditional media tries to entertain an audience and keep it so they can then sell advertising within that form of entertainment. While the programming and editorial content have become corporate blah, for the most part, audiences have rushed over to other venues…

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Thoughts on Traditional Media Meeting Social Media

I saw a commercial the other night from Coleman, the lantern and overnight camp gear company. They claimed they were the original social network, pretty clever, I thought, and pretty much on target. While brands that target a younger and more geeky (for lack of a better word) consumer with social media never get a…

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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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Twitter Marketing Strategy: Tweeting with Frequency

As any good radio account executive or business owner knows, frequency is necessary for radio. I’d argue that frequency is critical for Twitter’s marketing strategy as well. With radio being the active medium, users are usually active in what they are doing while listening. They are getting ready in the morning, driving, playing on their…

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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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Your Brand Manifesto: Your Secret Sauce

Congratulations on Your New Brand Position! OK, so you’ve found your new brand position. You’ve taken the time to discuss it with your key stakeholders and get their buy-in. This foundational step is essential because it defines what your brand stands for and the unique position you occupy in the market. Now what? Well, my…

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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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