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The new year is on the horizon (okay, it’s breathing down the collar of your shirt), and it’s a good time to be reviewing your marketing strategy and implementing a few updates for a big impact. Not sure where to start? Here are a few areas that will be key in 2020 to get your […]
Aluminum Christmas trees. Polaroid photos. Homemade ornaments. Old-school cookie cutters. Classic holiday hits. Throwback and retro styles are back with a flair across movies, fashion and food; and as marketers, we’re enjoying this trend across the brands we work with, too. But there’s nothing quite like Christmas nostalgia. Even as we usher in some new […]
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Instagram Stories are great for brands who live in the visual. The photographers, the fashion designers and the tourism industry. It’s the perfect tool for B2C marketing, where consumers are looking to be dazzled by textures, colors and luxury. What about you, the typical B2B marketer? Are your days destined to be languished in the […]
You’ve heard that you need a marketing strategy, but you aren’t sure where to start. You might wonder how you’ll even know if it’s successful. If you see business growth, how will you know whether that happened because you started posting on Instagram, or if it’s from the direct mail campaign you do every year? […]
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If you want to get your child guitar lessons for Christmas, if your daughter needs to rent a flute for her band class or if you need a bottle of slide oil for your trombone and you live in the St. Louis area, you go to Nottelmann Music Company. There are few music students in […]
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Custom web design: out of the question, right? Your small business could never afford that, and for what you need to do, a website template will serve your needs. It’s not even something you’re willing to consider. Unless …what if you found out that a custom web design might be a better investment in the […]
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Your marketing team probably isn’t hanging around the water cooler much these days, nor are they exchanging YouTube videos in the breakroom. For savvy marketers, that last quarter of the year is a busy time spent deep in analytics and budgets to create the marketing strategy for the following year. If you just got that […]
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St. Joseph, Missouri, in its early days, was a bustling outpost selling goods to travelers as they headed west. At one point, the city was the leading wholesale center for the building of the new frontier. Those times have come and gone, and shopping is done more and more online but for those who still […]
There’s no question that digital marketing in Kansas City is on the rise (well of course it’s on the rise everywhere). Social media, email newsletters and interactive websites are just the surface of the strategic tools available to businesses wanting to connect online. You have the ability to engage target audiences in nearly endless ways […]
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You wear the same sparkly sweater to your office holiday party, year after year. You always order the chicken fettucine alfredo at the same restaurant, because why mess with what works? You participate in the Turkey Trot 5k on the Friday after Thanksgiving, shoving away suggestions that you should try a longer run. Even at […]
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