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If you’re using social media marketing to your advantage, you will know where to put the content that’s tailored to meet a specific audience. For example, did you know that Facebook is where most of your audience age 40 to 54 will go to follow brands? Instagram, however, is attracting a much younger audience – […]
You probably won’t have any trouble making decisions related to font and color scheme, images and menus that you’d like to include on your website’s design composition. You probably have much more trouble envisioning the white space that a smart design includes. Maybe you think of white space as wasted space on any given web […]
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Now that sunny skies have fully returned to northwest Missouri, it’s time for a song. Or two. Or 10. The annual Parties on the Parkway series, hosted by the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce and the City of St. Joseph, brings local and regional talent together with one of the area’s best parkway and greenspace […]
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Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising comes at a cost, but it is proven to bring increased leads to your website. In fact, it’s estimated that people who click on an ad and come to your website are 50% more likely to make a purchase than those who arrive at your website through other means. If you want […]
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Your logo design is just one element of your branding, but it carries a lot of the weight when it comes to recognizability and communicating what you’re all about. We designed a new logo for FSB, a community bank, that helped them see a great return on their marketing investment that you really need to […]
When you operate a business in any community, it is important for you to be an active part of that community. This spring, one of our SJC Marketing team members had the privilege of serving our community by playing a role on the allocations subcommittee for the United Way of Greater St. Joseph. There are […]
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Your posts are witty, you share interesting blogs and you regularly log in to your social media accounts, ready to answer comments. Even with all this attention are you finding your social media marketing strategy is falling short of your expectations? Gray Manufacturing faced some social media challenges that might sound familiar to you, read […]
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Has your logo become invisible to you? Maybe you’ve seen it at the top of the letterhead, across your website and on every other piece of communication for so many years that you fail to see it anymore. If that’s the case, it’s time to consider your logo design and whether it’s time for a […]
Make that an iced coffee, please. That’s right, summertime is here. Your grocery cart is loaded with popsicles, everything smells of sunblock and sand is turning up in the weirdest places. Yes, your schedule might be filled with fun evenings by the grill and lazy weekends at the lake, but business is still happening. That […]
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Opening your email inbox is becoming an awful lot like trekking out to your home mailbox: full of possibilities, but so often disappointing. That’s not because email marketing isn’t relevant; in fact, across every industry, the email open rate is 32%. It’s hard to find engagement like that in other channels. If you want to […]
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