7 Steps to Staying Curious
When you feel your mind is straying from your natural inclination to be curious, come back to these seven steps to staying curious.
Essential Marketing Investments for Young Companies
It’s hard out there for the young pups. Whether you’re offering a cutting-edge new piece of technology or a personal service with a little TLC, the marketplace grows more competitive by the day thanks to digital advertising. As more companies build buzz about their business through highly-shareable content, the battle for the customer rests in…read more.
How to Tell the Truth in Advertising (and Why You Should)
It may seem hard to believe, but people tend to be more honest than not. Contemporary research indicates that most people only tell one or two lies a day. Granted, this research relies on self-reporting, but it makes sense. As social, community-reliant creatures by nature, trust is an essential component of human evolution and lays…read more.
How to Build Your Brand Reputation (Or Fix a Bad One)
Brand exists beyond and outside of the product or service a business provides. It speaks to the spirit of a company, what differentiates it from its competitors and the identity that consumers or clients relate to. Brand reputation is built around three core principles: distinction from peers, resonance with your audience, and trust. In the…read more.
WTF: Navigating the Ever-Changing Digital Landscape
The average age of business owners in the United States is just over 50 years old. As they entered the professional world as young adults in the mid-90s, this is how America’s most trusted morning show discussed the internet. (Take a minute to watch it; it’s pretty funny.) Flash forward 28 years, and we’ve gone…read more.
Scary Stories for Marketers
The Curse of the 10 PM Slack Message It seemed like just a normal Thursday evening when Jessica gently pressed the sheet mask to her face and sipped her 750th milliliter of Vinho Verde. That’s when she heard it come in: the 10 PM Slack message! Is a client unhappy? Did a task go unfinished?…read more.
A Day in the Life of a Copywriter
If you’ve ever seen an advertisement, marketing blast, or product packaging, you’ve encountered the work of a copywriter. While copywriters are prolific, you will likely never put a name to the words they produce. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 131,200 writers are currently employed in America, many of whom work in relative anonymity…read more.
Wait. Is Advertising…Art?
Fighting over the definition of “art” is as ancient as the human subjectivity that makes the fight impossible to resolve. It is the opinion of this advertising artist that the endless argument about what constitutes art is, in itself, an art form. But I digress. The crux of the debate about art, and whether advertising…read more.
In a Clickbait World, Why Quality Content Still Wins
As the human attention span continues to shrink, and as every end user is bombarded with colorful content from several devices for the entirety of the waking day, the question of which content you should produce becomes an important and urgent one. It is difficult to cut through the noise while still retaining the voice…read more.