Media Planning: Changing Seasons and Shifting Creatives

As students head back to school, so many marketers are heading back to the drawing board to refresh their ad creatives for the fall & holiday shopping season. Indeed, while some marketers are still finalizing their Labor Day sales, others are already looking ahead to holiday media planning strategies, and for good reason. Last year, the majority of holiday shopping occurred on …

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The other day I was having dinner with a folks from another ad agency who I really enjoy. We went to 13 Coins across from the Seattle airport because they had to hop on a plane right after dinner. We had such great conversation that we completely lost track of time and one of them nearly missed their flight! In …

Real Estate Advertising: Luxury Real Estate

These beautiful real estate advertising ads were designed by one of Seattle’s best graphic designers, Bryce Bernard, for our luxury real estate client Summerwell Homes. New Year, New Home! Imagine starting the new year in an award-winning luxury new home community just minutes from the city! o Summerwell’s 16 homes, designed by renowned McCullough Architects, reflect a contemporary design aesthetic …

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 …

Thriving, Expanding, and Breaking Records

A great success story to share for a client that we’ve been media buying for this year! What a great article sharing the wonderful growth and expansion Seabrook has had in 2017. Washington’s beach town enjoyed record-breaking home sales and vacation rental rates this summer. If you’ve never had an opportunity to visit Seabrook, it’s worth checking out. Congratulations to …

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 …

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 …

For Chinese Home Buyers, Seattle Is the New Vancouver

Many of our clients are benefiting from this a great deal. An article came out this week in the #WSJ. It details everything we’re being told by Developers, Sellers and Brokers in this area. Read more about Chinese Real Estate Buyers here. The graph below is from the Wall Street Journal article shared above with data from Juwai.com. Juwai.com is an online real-estate portal that …

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 …