
Is Your Brand Stuck in Neutral?
Feeling stuck with your brand? Explore these five branding fundamentals. You might uncover where your message needs sharpening—or spark inspiration for a bold, transformative rebrand.

You Make the Call (to Action)
Without obvious next steps or calls to action, sales messages often fall flat.

Language: It’s in the Way That You Use It
Language serves as a potent tool, capable of fostering empathy, building bridges, and transcending barriers. How do the words and attitude you use impact your brand story?

Does Your Content Give Consumers What They Want?
The job of connecting with consumers these days can be tough—but it’s not impossible. How can marketers communicate with people who don’t want to be interrupted?

Know Your Communication Style: Time, Place, and Audience Matter
The authentic, genuine YOU that you present to an audience should NEVER change, but your communication style should change to suit the context and ensure optimal connection and understanding.

Networking Remains Crucial to Career and Business Success
Networking may be old school, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less crucial to career or business success. Attend those mixers. Establish those connections. Get engaged.

Is This the Year You Get Serious About Social Media?
Businesses must engage prospects and customers where they consume information for work and for pleasure. If you’re not there but they are, you could be (and most likely are) missing out.

Good, Bad, or Fake? Finding Value In Online Reviews
Reviews are fundamental to online consumerism. Without reviews to read through, how do you know the widget you’ve been eyeing from “Company X” is all it’s cracked up to be? You’ve never heard of Company X and their particular version of widget, so how can you be sure you’re getting good value for your money?…

Keep Your Marketing Afloat this Summer
Summer is a time for travel and vacations, but that doesn’t mean your marketing efforts should take a timeout. While you and your staff are recharging body, mind, and spirit with a little summertime R&R, there are plenty of things you can do over the next several months to ensure your business growth efforts don’t…

St. Pat’s Day 2021: Do You Feel Lucky?
Science Tells Us Luck is Real – and We Help to Create It! Fresh on the heels of a 2020 that most of us would rather forget, writing about “luck” might seem like an odd topic. But, with St. Patrick’s Day fast approaching, the subject of luck is bound to come up in conversation. In…

In Times of Uncertainty, Brands Must Be More than Fair Weather Friends
When things are going well, it’s easy for businesses to be generous with their time, resources, patience, and general good will. It’s easy to be confident, bold, and forward thinking. But when times get rough or uncertain, many brands simply retreat, begin to focus inwardly, and hunker down, fearful of the future and what it…

Your Brand & COVID-19: Should You Stay the Course or Pivot?
There’s a new buzz word making the rounds in business circles. If you’ve had your ear and eyes to the news grapevine the last few months, I’m sure you’ll recognize it. Close on the heels of the now cliché phrase, “We’re here for you,” is the term “pivot” as it relates to companies making significant…