What Makes for Good Web Development?

Don’t just ask us. Ask Google, the search engine 66% of Americans prefer. They say a good web development has to be impressively easy to use and attract traffic to the website. That’s it, right? Wrong. Remember you’re competing with...
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Strategies for Handling Bad Press

Despite your best efforts, your brand will occasionally be maligned by well-intentioned (or otherwise) individuals and brands. Sometimes it will occur because you failed to execute something as well as you could, sometimes it will be because you're the brand...
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Presentation to Women’s Entrepreneur Network in Medford

Tisha Oehmen will be making a presentation on how to grow your business using social media at the Women's Entrepreneur Network's meeting on March 29.
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Cause Marketing for Brands

How many times has a news story broken that reveals a profound injustice? Too often I'd argue. If you're not an Auburn fan (or you don't know one) you may not have heard about the poisoning of the trees at Toomer's...
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Branding Lessons from Trees

Although as marketers, we tend to talk about brands in never-changing absolutes - the reality is that brands evolve. They adapt. They grow. Their roots spread deeper and their ideals reach ever-higher reaching for loftier and more audacious goals - not...
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A Cup of Tea for Your Brand

Ever watch a tea bag enter a hot cup of water? Notice how the dark tea slowly starts to balloon out and around the bag, finding it's way into every corner of the cup. Eventually, the entire cup of tea...
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Not on Facebook? 5 Reasons You Need to Be!

I've spent a lot of time talking with business owners this week about why their business and brand should participate on Facebook. Everyday more businesses are creating their Facebook page and jumping into social media. But for those of you...
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Finally A Birdie For The PGA With Social Media

For 13 years the PGA Tour was a bit like the Facebook of sports.  Not because they were innovative or cutting edge hell they wouldn’t even allow you to enter with your cell phone to one of their events, no...
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Is Your Brand Listening?

One of the most important things a brand can and should do to improve is to listen. Admittedly, listening is also one of the most difficult things to do. We all, inevitably want to jump in, correct, and respond to...
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Local Newspaper vs Social Media

photo credit: katerha Well that just wouldn't be a fair fight now would it?  It would fall under the proverbial saying don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.  This is part three of a series...
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KTVL – Business Owners Learn Twitter and Facebook

Tweeting does sometimes bring the press! Thanks KTVL for the article! Business Owners learn Twitter and Facebook MEDFORD, Ore. -- Retweets, trending topics, friends and followers, local business people learned how to harness the power of social media in Medford...
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Social Media for Business Workshop

Hold onto your hat, Paradux Media Group is offering a Social Media for Business Workshop in the Medford area! If you think your company might benefit from being on Facebook, Twitter, or having a Blog – then this is the class...
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Baking with Brand in Mind

I'm going to let you in on a secret...I LOVE to bake from scratch-it's really a passion. To me there is nothing more satisfying than taking a bunch of raw ingredients and mixing them together in the right proportions to...
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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...
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Radio vs Social Media

photo credit: © Photography By CalvinCropley

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...
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Talking to No One

photo credit: © Photography By CalvinCropley

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...
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3 Must-Not-Miss Components for a Non-Profit Brand

Soliciting donations is hard work for any non-profit and it's often made all the harder because the non-profit has not laid the appropriate groundwork in creating their brand image. This oversight usually ends up costing them donations in the long...
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Can We Teach an Old Media New Tricks?

photo credit: thedoctorpod 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....
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Meet Your Customers Where They Spend Their Free Time

Image the power of knowing exactly what your customers like to do in their free time. If you knew that they generally owned horses - you would have the ability think creatively about where your messages could intercept them. [caption...
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