The New Digital Marketing Strategy for Product Launches and Startups

Every startup and new product is different, but there are so many commonalities between the points of creative revelation, inception, research, development launch and success, regardless of industry, that they all warrant being offered a NEW process, designed to command: Attention Awareness Need Interest Value Decision Action Through establishing and Carrying Out: Goals Targets Budget Digital…

Social Media Isn’t Magic – It Takes Planning and Hard Work

Whether you’re a brand promoting products or services, a business trying to increase awareness of and interest in what you’re selling, or a startup clamoring for attention, you’ll need to be involved on some level with social media. Here’s the bad news. It isn’t magic. You don’t flick a switch and turn it on and…

5 Reasons Startups Should Pay Marketing Agencies More Than Brands Do

The myth out there is that startups don’t have very high budgets because they’re – you know – startups, so they shouldn’t pay marketing agencies, ad agencies, the gardener, the people at the counter at Burger King – or other professionals at the same rates that those nasty big brands do. They should pay more.…

Ignore The Marketing Barriers in Front of You and You’ll Walk Right Through

Right after I graduated from the University of Southern California, my first job was to party like a rockstar, mostly to suppress the disbelief that I had actually just graduated from college. You see, three years earlier, I had dropped out of college in Atlanta and moved to Hollywood to be an actual rockstar, but…