How to Find the Best Video Production Company or Agency

The first step in selecting a video production company is deciding what videos you need and how you’ll use them toward your marketing goals. The second, is deciding between a production company and an agency. My creative agency & video production company gets inquiries that range from brands, businesses and startups that know exactly what…

Is Your Video Marketing Strategy Smart or Stupid

Your Brand, startup or organization is throwing video into the digital marketing mix like crazy, but are you putting enough smarts behind your video marketing strategy? Do you even have a strategy? Are you putting the same time and attention into video as you would into broadcast? There’s a lot of debate over the return…

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.…

5 Ways for Marketers to Get More Out of Their Digital Creative Agencies

This article was originally published in AdAge. Written by David Murdico. Wikipedia defines symbiosis as the “close and often long-term interaction between different biological species.” That pretty much describes the relationship between brands / businesses / startups and their agencies. Although they must work together to achieve larger, common goals, the relationship between marketing executives…

5 Reasons Instagram Marketing is B**ch Slapping Facebook

With marketing fads coming and going faster then ever in this digital age, one trend has remained king…social media. The millennials who only vaguely remember the days of dial-up internet (cue the ear-splitting, screeching phone sound effect) have gone from consuming Play-Doh to consuming content at a rate that’s a Digital Marketing Manager’s dream.  (Yes,…