As the owner of a Seattle advertising agency, I can relate to business owners who are weighing heavily their advertising investments for 2018. With media fragmentation and 100+ cold calls a month from media reps pitching “the best opportunity”, “fire sale prices” or “their best station/website/audience” etc., how is the owner of a company (who has a million other things …
Media Buying Tips: 2018 Advertising Plans
2018 is here! If you’re like some of our clients you may be having that moment of realizing your 2018 advertising plans should have been in place. Don’t panic. We’re working on 2018 media buying right now and this is an excellent time to do it! While it’s always nice to book early, and 4th quarter does give more time …
Traditional Advertising Agency – 2018 Advertising Costs
There are so many media options in 2018 that many business owners feel overwhelmed by the volume of cold calls they receive from advertising reps calling to sell them advertising. Our clients forward our traditional advertising agency sales pitches nearly every day that they’d like us to take a look at. Over the past 10 years we’ve seen thousands and …
4 Common Reasons Your Advertising Strategy Fails
Have you ever heard of a Demographer? A Demographer is someone who studies human populations, in particular, their size and composition. They study births, deaths, and migration. An advertising strategy that is crafted with demography is more effective and delivers greater ROI! Demography in Advertising Demographer Ken Gronbach explains that Demography demonstrates the “enormous power of counting people, promote[s] the …
Digital Advertising Seattle Xennials: Meet the Demographic between Gen X and Millennials
Finally! My generational identity has been defined! Thank you Marleen Stollen und Gisela Wolf for accurately painting the picture of the challenge that so many advertisers, trying to reach this unique demographic, face. There are major differences between a Millennial and a Generation X. Now those differences can be classified into a neat and tidy demographic of it’s own! Meet …
Advertising Using Native Content
As part of the overall advertising plan, we recently worked with KOMO 4 and Seattle Refined to have this beautiful native content segment produced for Fort Lawton. It turned out fantastic. This type of sponsored content provides value beyond the initial television airing and online posting. It’s about giving the client content to share socially and to re-purpose for sales …
Digital Targeted Advertising: Tactics to Target at Every Level of User Engagement
Digital advertising tactics are evolving at lightning speed. We’re constantly learning and innovating to best serve of clients and their unique marketing needs. Here’s a quick rundown of the type of digital targeted advertising tactics we’ve been using lately. Geo-fence Targeting – Targeting based on your location and your competitor’s locations. Category Contextual Targeting – Targeting on sites with content …
Seattle Advertising Trends
We’ve been working on many advertising projects this year so we haven’t had time to do our own marketing. Isn’t that the irony that most business owners and marketing professionals experience? We should spend more time on our blog. Making a concerted effort to update what we’ve been up to and how we’ve been creating ROI producing media plans for …
3 Ways to Boost Your Biz with Google Analytics
Thank you Huffington Post Writer Angela Schonberg for this guest blog. Reporting on a website’s Google Analytics data is an investigative dig that can be viewed and tracked daily, weekly, monthly or annually. The tool tracks the behavioral flow of web traffic in and out of your site on a daily basis. Within this realm marketers, website managers and business …
Join Us at the KOMO Toy Tour Benefiting The Salvation Army
Join us tomorrow at the #komotoytour benefiting The Salvation Army. Help bring joy to local kids along with our client Law Offices of Harold D. Carr. They generously sponsored the phone bank tomorrow and will be delivering toys they’ve been collecting at their offices. Their team and ours will be accepting donations through the phone bank and collecting new, unwrapped …