What Is Community Management, Exactly? “Community management” is a term that’s thrown around a lot in the marketing and social media marketing space these days. You’ve maybe included it in a few job descriptions without really sitting down to...read more
What is Marketing?
What is Marketing?
What exactly is “marketing?” It’s a loaded question with an equally loaded answer. A google search will lead you to an endless onslaught of explanations about promotions, tone, ad spend, and even more industry-specific terminology that will only...read more
Social Media Reporting Checklist: How To Present & Prove Your Social ROI
Social Media Reporting Checklist: How To Present & Prove Your Social ROI
There are over 3.8 billion social media users across the globe. As you can probably imagine, social media is becoming increasingly important for businesses. It’s imperative to evaluate your campaign efforts in order to help your company continue to...read more
3 Strategies to Increase Customer Retention Through Email Marketing
3 Strategies to Increase Customer Retention Through Email Marketing
“You’ve got mail.” Ever since the ’90s and the rise of consumer email, checking our inboxes daily (or if you’re me, every 20 minutes) has increasingly become a ritual in our lives. Yet, with more and more companies vying for space in their customers’...read more
Come In, We’re Open: 4 Tips To Help Restaurants Succeed Post-COVID-19
Come In, We’re Open: 4 Tips To Help Restaurants Succeed Post-COVID-19
The past few months have demonstrated some of the most dramatic changes in consumer behavior that we’ve seen in our lifetime. In March alone, nearly 97% of restaurants in the United States were impacted by the mandatory dine-in closures. The industry...read more
What is a PPC Ad Quality Score?
What is a PPC Ad Quality Score?
Pay-per-click, PPC, traffic creates about 50% more lead conversion than organic traffic. The 3 paid ads at the top of the search engine results page (SERPS) get 46% of the clicks for the entire page. 65% of the clicks made on PPC ads are by customers...read more
What Company Culture Means to Us
What Company Culture Means to Us
Ah, company culture! It’s the buzzword all industries can’t seem to shake but what does it actually mean? Is it indoor slides and weekly keg parties? Is it insurance coverage and a parking spot? Is it casual Fridays or daily tarot readings? When companies...read more
Snapchat 101
Snapchat 101
Whether you love it or hate it, Snapchat seems to be here to stay. Not quite Instagram and not quite Facebook, Snapchat lives in an in-between world that mixes the ephemeral nature of the internet with the new right-this-minute communication style we've...read more
Allbound Marketing 101
Allbound Marketing 101
Back in the dawn of man, the only form of marketing was outbound marketing. One caveman would throw a rock at another one to get his attention so they could talk shop about this newfangled product called “the wheel.” And so, outbound marketing reigned...read more
What It Takes to Make a Logo
What It Takes to Make a Logo
Logos are more than a picture--it’s a visual representation of your brand. Logos are how your customers get to know you and how they spot you in a sea of competitors. Are you fun? Serious? Conservative? How does your brand make them feel? Can they trust...read more
Location, Location, Location: The Benefits of Geotagging on Instagram
Location, Location, Location: The Benefits of Geotagging on Instagram
Welcome to Part 2 of our series, The Ins and Outs of Instagram. If you haven’t checked out our first part, check it out here when you have a second! We covered some of the basics in part 1, so today, we’re going to deep-dive into a highly underutilized,...read more
The SEO of YouTube
The SEO of YouTube
As you may have learned in the Gen Zbook, YouTube is killin’ it with spend-happy youths, broke MIllennials, aloof Gen Xers, and even the Baby Boomers. And while we all know that video marketing is an essential part of your content strategy, it still...read more
The Case Against Twitter
The Case Against Twitter
Let’s cut to it: Twitter is a major social platform but, for a lot of businesses, it doesn’t work. The thing is, Twitter is not the advertising juggernaut it was once perceived to be and with the trolling, influencers, and political back and forth--it’s...read more
3 PPC Strategies to Try Now
3 PPC Strategies to Try Now
PPC, or pay per click, can be scary to some people. Like, SEO, it’s one of those marketing disciplines that gets a bad rap for being too hard or, in a lot of cases I’ve come across, they’ve worked with a PPC “expert” who ended up blowing a budget...read more
UX Rules You Need to Know
UX Rules You Need to Know
The term "UX" refers to the user experience and is often bandied about when talking about web and app design. User experience encompasses a wide variety of things, from the function of your site to the ease of navigation to the quality of the content....read more