marketing
Immersive Experience Rules at SXSW 2019
It’s 2026. Hundreds of tiny sensors are observing your every gesture, and microphones are listening to your every command. The things around you respond like a robot orchestra as a virtual assistant feeds you personalized advice on everything from health and wellness to financial planning, all in real time. You head to a restaurant where…
The Death of Desktop
It may be too soon to declare the desktop dead, but for marketers it may as well be. If you are still building digital marketing creative primarily for desktop, you’re likely either irritating your customers or failing to reach them entirely. There is one caveat: if you are a B2B company and you are primarily selling…
Advertainment: How Brands are Using Stories to Engage Audiences
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a fun and memorable Christmas song. But, it’s easy to forget that the story was created by Montgomery Ward department stores. The idea of using stories to draw customers is not new. Stories have a way of engendering affection, and affection is a coveted asset. But if you’ve paid attention…
Video Trends for 2018
There was a time not so long ago that quality video production was only for the major players in entertainment and advertising. Like so many other industries, technology has dramatically shrunk filmmaking costs across the board. Simultaneously, increases in data processing allow us to engage with motion-based graphics in a way that simply wasn’t possible…
Building a Responsive Email Strategy
Back when “Mad Men” were still pitching tag lines in smoke-filled rooms, advertising was a lot simpler: find a clever message, and slap it on as many billboards, newspapers, and TVs as you can. Thanks to the digital revolution, fueling engagement is a fractured, flexible, and data-driven process. Brands still have to develop core messages,…
Your Nonprofit Should Think Like a Business
How do we change culture? I recently had the opportunity to join a few dozen influential leaders from across the country for a summit around this question, hosted by our good friends at the Foundation for Economic Education. Thousands of advocacy, educational, and ministry organizations around the nation struggle with the same question, framed in…
Building A Presidential Campaign Brand
What’s riding on a good logo? A lot, if you’re running for president. Most voters never get the chance to meet the candidates face to face. But, they do get to interact with campaign branding through a variety of ever-evolving platforms: TV, social media, and direct mail, to name a few. When executed well, a…
5 Ways Minimalism Improves Products, Design, and Business Strategy
“If I had more time, I would’ve written a shorter letter.” — Blaise Pascal In the early 2000s, a search engine battle raged between Yahoo and Google. The former sought to provide everything you could want from one dashboard. The latter focused on just one thing: an extremely effective search bar. Today, there’s no question…