Branding can become a complicated process in trying to gain an audience, especially with a much more crowded marketplace of ideas and creativity. While you should always strive to create your own persona during the branding process, should you also consider riding on the back of a popular trend to help gain you more exposure?...Read More

Five years ago, search engine optimization was a dirty business of paid links, spam comments on blogs and message boards and rogue websites designed for the sole purpose of gaming the search engine results pages and Google’s page rank algorithm. Over the past two years, namely with the Panda update and the equally important May...Read More

Online marketing can sometimes be a challenge today to capture someone’s attention in a hurry. While it might be discouraging that everything has to be condensed in order to capture short attention spans, it doesn’t take away the reality that good storytelling is what truly matters. However, what’s the real future of storytelling in online...Read More

Whatever product or service you sell, you can gain a lot of insight into branding based on the Consumer Reports Car Brand Perception Survey. Take a look at the results from the latest poll and consider these 6 lessons about brand awareness and perception. Overall, the survey showed once again that the perceived difference between...Read More

In the age of social media contact, it’s easy to overlook the value of email marketing. As Facebook, Twitter and all their social media brethren take on increased significance as marketing tools, it becomes increasingly easier to forget about the power of old-fashioned email marketing. With that move toward under-utilization comes an increase in the...Read More

With the holiday shopping season reaching a feverish pitch, consumer attention deficit will be at an all time high. Finishing up last minute shopping, checking their list twice and thrice more to make sure they didn’t forget anyone, and even traveling at this time of year can quickly result in feeling scattered and overwhelmed. It...Read More

Rumors of the imminent death of email marketing abound… So much so that you may be wondering if email marketing is in fact truly “dead.” In fact, according to Google, there are 1,690,000 websites found from the search “email is dead.” The truth? In spite of repeated rumors of its demise, email is alive and...Read More

Consumer focused marketing is more or less a study in psychology to thoroughly understand what a consumer does in their buying habits. The insights usually found from this marketing process are much more personal than some of the previous methods, including creating character personas. If your marketing department ever created character personas for your business,...Read More

If you are spending some part of your web development budget or marketing budget on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), congratulations, you are definitely on the right path to a continued presence on search engine result pages. In the long run SEO is really the optimal solution for getting relevant traffic to your web pages. Unfortunately...Read More

If you’re a small business trying to market yourself like you’re a large corporation, stop. Stop right now and save your money. If you aren’t first into a market and you’re playing catch up behind more experienced players, your piece of the pie isn’t going to come from outdoing what your competitors have already been...Read More