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You’re a busy entrepreneur.

You barely have time to sleep.

In fact, sleep feels like the enemy because you know that if you don’t do the work it will never get done.

You want to grow your business but you can’t take any more work on your plate.

Maybe you feel stuck… like it’s never going to end.

Everyone tells you that you need to be working on your business instead of in it but you can’t seem to figure out how that’s even possible.

In this blog post I’ll share 4 business systems that will help you get out of your business and give you some breathing room to take your family on vacation for the first time in forever.

How does that sound?

Good, let’s dive in…

Topics: Advertising, Online Advertising, Web Design, Website Optimization, Facebook Ads

How many email lists have you signed up for to get a special discount code or a piece of information? 

For me, the answer is probably 4 in the last week.

I most likely will never become a customer to these brands I signed up with… but that doesn’t mean they should stop trying to sell to me.

When a brand does email marketing the right way, I’ll actually consider buying.

And if their offer is something I want, I’ll buy it.

In this article I’m going to give you some marketing tactics you can implement today to ethically get more of the email leads you generate to buy your products and services.

Let’s get into it…

Topics: Advertising, Online Advertising, Web Design, Website Optimization, Facebook Ads

 

Sales.

Revenue.

Fat stacks.

As a business owner or marketing director, I know you love serving your customers and clients…

But at the end of the day you need to make money.

You have payroll and bills to pay.

You’ve been told by all the marketing companies that more traffic will help grow your business…

But you haven’t seen the results they’ve promised.

Topics: Advertising, Online Advertising, Web Design, Website Optimization, Facebook Ads

Not so long ago, digital advertising was a thing of the future. At the turn of the century, online advertisements were the pests of the internet and you swatted them away as soon as they popped up. Fast forward to today and digital advertising has grown into one of the most customizable and efficient marketing strategies.

Topics: Advertising, Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Digital Marketing, SEO, Web Design, Search Engine Optimization, Website Content, Google Ranking, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Vision, Design Team, Website Optimization, Google

The first thing you should be doing before you even start sketching out ideas for logo concepts is identifying your client’s competitors. While researching competitor logos, you will begin to acquire a knowledge of trends and branding strategies in your client’s specific industry. 

Topics: Typography, branding, Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Web Design, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Design Team, Website Optimization, Fonts, Typeface, Pairing Fonts

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Developing creative techniques for your marketing strategy is critical when facing competitors in the construction industry. We have to remember that marketing is much more than advertising or selling.

Topics: Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, SEO, Web Design, Search Engine Optimization, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Vision, Design Team, Website Optimization, Construction Marketing, Construction Industry, Construction SEO, Consumer Behavior, Construction Strategy

Now that 2016 is behind us, we can take a moment to look back at some great viral ad campaigns that graced us during the year. 2016 as a whole was unconventional, and some top ad campaigns of the year were no different. 

Topics: Typography, branding, Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Web Design, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Design Team, Website Optimization, Fonts, Typeface, Pairing Fonts

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Everyone is looking for that one ultimate secret that unlocks all the success to your digital campaigns. What we all should be doing is making sure that we’re covering all our bases in order to have a strong foundation. 

Topics: Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, SEO, Web Design, Search Engine Optimization, Website Content, Google Ranking, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Vision, Design Team, Website Optimization, Google

Typography is a part of our everyday lives whether you realize it or not. You see it in product packaging, street signs, billboards, and anywhere else where you may see words and numbers.

As a graphic designer, I have always been fascinated with the connection between typography and our emotional response to it.

Topics: Typography, branding, Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Web Design, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Design Team, Website Optimization, Fonts, Typeface, Pairing Fonts

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Understanding just a little about behavioral psychology can take you a long way in understanding the audience in and out of your industry. Of course, businesses often have many customers buying their products or services, so how can you understand all those personalities?

To find the answer, we turn to thorough and careful research on consumer behavior.

Topics: Creative, Team, Resources, Clients, Team Building, Learning, Web Design, Psychology, Marketing Psychology, Agency, Marketing, Tools, Relationships, Vision, Design Team, Website Optimization, Consumer Behavior