For a successful business, it is natural to continue with whatever is working. Far from jettisoning entire business models, there is often reluctance to change even vestigial components of a highly functional system. Of course, this attitude lends itself ...
The Psychology Of Advertising
Psychology has often been castigated as a softer science. As it is not as easily subject to predictive validity and verification as some of the “hard sciences” many of its resultant inferences have been met with a degree of skepticism. However, if there i ...
Traditional Media’s Resurgence
Facebook, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, has undergone a severely tumultuous period. Within the span of one week, stocks plummeted by almost $50 billion, advertisers were stripped from the platform and users threatened boycotts. Now, give ...
3 Tips For Video Advertising
As of March 2018, YouTube analytics report that over 3.5 billions hours of video is viewed each month. This confluence of digitally distributed information is an ever-expanding trend, as it is projected that by 2019, over 80% of the content consumed onlin ...
We’ve Turned 30
Turning thirty is an interesting time. You’re a bit older (definitely), a bit wiser (you hope) and a bit more realistic (you better be). You’ve lost the majority of the youthful naivety that causes you to make stupid mistakes, but you’re still young enoug ...
3 Tips To Improve Your Email Campaign
If you’re sending emails to your customers, getting them to open and read the email is usually the hardest part. With the tips below you can significantly increase the chances of that happening. Simplicity is Everything The advertising world’s fa ...
Is Newspaper Advertising Still Relevant?
It doesn’t feel too long since the days when could put an ad in the newspaper and see quite tremendous results from it. However, if what everyone besides the newspapers is saying is true, then those days are long gone. But how true are these claims? Is n ...
Advertising In A Tough Economy
It’s a common practice for companies to axe their advertising budgets when they enter tough economic times. Everything is going good until there is a change in interest rates or the market, and suddenly everyone seems not to be spending as much. Sales beg ...
7 Things To Look For In An Advertising Agency
When I was researching information for another blog, it dawned on me that there’s a lot advice about marketing, but not so much about marketers (and specifically how you should discern one from another). Why is this the case? As a business, you put a lot ...
3 Everyday Things We Do That Block Creativity
Creativity is something we talk about a lot in the advertising world. It’s the fuel that drives successful campaigns and burns unsuccessful ones. We’re all obsessed with it, yet we don’t really understand it or know how to make it work for us. For most of ...