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The holiday season is upon us. For many people, that means trimming trees, decking halls and pretending your family doesn’t drive you nuts. But for marketers it means one thing: Getting your offer in front of consumers who are ready to spend BIG.

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Ask any CMO what their biggest challenge is and they’re likely to tell you selecting the right channels to deliver their brand’s messaging. There was a time when marketers had limited channels to choose from, namely traditional outlets like print,...

If you are a CMO, you’re most likely aware that more and more marketing channels open up each year. You most likely also know that you have become even more accountable for delivering big results and return on ad spend.

Though newer, shiner channels...

Imagine your mother-in-law visits one afternoon and brings with her a little gift she picked up for you at a local flea market. You open it. It’s a set of clown salt and pepper shakers.

She asks if you like them and you say, “These are going in the...

We talk a lot about running advertising campaigns on this blog. We’d be remiss if we didn’t also discuss the biggest factor in whether or not that campaign will be successful: and that is whether or not you have an overall solid marketing strategy...

I had a friend once who loved a particular restaurant in the city we were both living in and it royally irked him when he called for a reservation and couldn’t get a table, especially when he was trying to impress a new love interest. He started...

If you follow any marketing trends, you know that this year has had many a small business owner trying to figure out how to get chatbots to work for them. While AI certainly has a place in marketing, know what we’ve found to work even better? Good...

As more consumers learn the benefits of visiting an urgent care center (UCC) over a traditional emergency room, more centers pop up in a local area. It doesn’t matter if your center has the latest equipment and most experienced staff. To stop...

Are Remnant Ads a Good Idea for Small Business Owners on a Tight Budget?

Newspaper advertising is still, hands down, one of the best ways to get your message in front of your audience. Particularly if your audience is part of the baby boomer...

If you’ve read our blog in the past, you know that we are big proponents of direct response marketing, particularly for SMBs. We sing its praises because direct response marketing is highly trackable while at the same time offers quantitative data...