Social media is prevalent in our everyday lives. As of January, 2025 63.9% of the world’s population use social media which equates to an astonishing 5.24 billion people. As well, on average people spend 2 hours and 20 minutes per day using social media. The most...
How Best to Utilize a Small Marketing Budget
Sometimes a business is small or in the start-up phase and necessarily has a small marketing budget. But a small budget can still be allocated wisely such that your business is meeting potential customers throughout their path-to-purchase and effectively converting....
How To Use Owned, Earned, and Paid Media to Help Your Local Business Grow
Owned, earned, and paid media refers to three distinct categories of marketing channels that a business can use to promote itself. Owned Media: Here a business creates the content and distributes it on channels it controls. Owned media can include a company’s website,...
Where Does Storytelling Fit in Your Branding Strategy?
A branding strategy is a framework that helps a business establish its identity, define its market, and create a unique value proposition. Branding involves developing a name, logo, and other characteristics that distinguish it from competitors. Effective branding...
Can Social Media Be Effective in The Awareness Stage of The Customer Journey?
As you contemplate your revenue strategy for your local business, and how to design and build your marketing plan to engage and inspire new potential customers all along their path-to-purchase, you may want to consider including social media in your marketing mix as...
How Can Understanding Frequency Illusions Help Your Local Business?
Have you ever been in the market for a new car? You’ve become increasingly interested in a particular make and model and have begun to do your research. Out of nowhere that car now seems to be appearing everywhere. You see it in traffic; there’s one parked across...
Is Branding Important to Your Local Business?
Branding is the process of creating a distinct identity for your business in the minds of consumers. Branding involves developing a company’s name, logo, colors, visual identity, and tone of voice. In many ways, branding involves and goes beyond visual elements and...
Let Us Help Your Local Business Make an Impression. In Fact, How About Nearly 150,000 of Them?
As a local business, your advertising messages need to be where your customers are. Today your customers are engaging with media across multiple platforms including print and digital. If you want to reach your audience, you need to be advertising in those multimedia...
Is It Valuable to Add Video to Your Local Business’ Marketing Mix?
Do you enjoy watching videos online? Have you ever been captivated by the emotion of a video? Have you ever used video to learn more about a company, product, or service you were interested in? So have your customers and potential customers! Video advertising is an...
Can Online Contests Help Your Local Business Grow?
Are you looking for a new and interesting way to engage your customers, generate qualified leads, and grow your business? Online contests may be an answer. Online contests are marketing campaigns that encourage people to interact with a brand by offering a prize to...