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The 7 Twitter Best Practices to Increase Engagement

The 7 Twitter Best Practices to Increase Engagement

Are you having troubles getting your Twitter followers to engage with you? This is a very common problem; just try searching “How to increase engagement on Twitter” and you’re sure to get about a million different answers (O.K. – so maybe a couple th…

Design Matters: Making a Good First Impression

Design Matters: Making a Good First Impression

You’re in a beautifully designed reception area, about to interview for your dream job. You’re fidgeting and nervous. You’re wiping your hands on your pants because they’re sweaty, and it’s making you even more nervous. Why? Because slightly damp, qu…

9 Ways to Revamp Your Marketing Strategy Before 2019

9 Ways to Revamp Your Marketing Strategy Before 2019

Did you know America’s top two New Year’s resolutions are to eat less and exercise more? In marketing, I think you’ll agree that the big two are likely to spend less and earn more. Keep that in mind as you contemplate your marketing strategy for 2019…

6 Things You Need to Set Up Facebook Dynamic Ads

6 Things You Need to Set Up Facebook Dynamic Ads

Facebook’s Dynamic Ads are one of the most complex tools Facebook has rolled out in order to help advertisers reach the right audience with the right messaging. In short, Facebook’s Dynamic Ads help you “automatically promote the most relevant items …

3 Social Metrics You Should Pay Attention To

3 Social Metrics You Should Pay Attention To

As one of our Social Media Leads, I get tasked with determining how successfully our clients' businesses perform on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and all other social channels their business is present on. I often get asked by my coworkers and our cli…

Podcasting + Inbound Marketing = A New Kind of Impact

Podcasting + Inbound Marketing = A New Kind of Impact

Inbound marketing is not about the sell; it’s about the solve. There’s a lot of power in knowing that efforts made to connect individuals looking for their own solutions can happen for clients who use inbound marketing as part of their strategy. In t…

Beyond Simple eNewsletters: Email Marketing ROI

Beyond Simple eNewsletters: Email Marketing ROI

I recently heard email marketing and eNewsletters used interchangeably. Don’t get me wrong, I can understand how it happens, but I'm here to set the record straight. eNewsletters used to be the only form of email marketing; however, in the ever-evolv…

Mapping the Creative Process: Marketing Campaign Strategy 101

Mapping the Creative Process: Marketing Campaign Strategy 101

Mapping the creative process isn’t easy; it took me a solid nine months to finally feel competent in my position. Of course, I bounced around a little before finding my forte in Project Coordination - I wrote blogs and website copy, scheduled social …

Online Recruiting the Right Way

Online Recruiting the Right Way

There’s usually a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things. And when it comes to online recruitment, this definitely applies. We’ve had quite a bit of success helping our clients with their online recruitment efforts, and with more and mor…

3 Rules of Blogging & Why You Can, And Should, Break Them

3 Rules of Blogging & Why You Can, And Should, Break Them

Here at Leighton Interactive, we live by the mantra that rules were meant to be broken. Why? Because we are creatives and we don’t like to be put in a box and told what we can and can’t create. Where’s the fun in that anyway? Yes, we are all law-abid…

5 Myths on Content Marketing

5 Myths on Content Marketing

At some point in your marketing career, you have probably been given a bad piece of advice, but you didn’t realize that until long after the fact. That bad piece of advice is kind of like these content marketing myths; they have been passed on from p…

Lead Capturing is All About Building Trust: a Video from Wistia

Lead Capturing is All About Building Trust: a Video from Wistia

The world of video has come a long way since cat videos took over every single social media feed you own. Our friends at Wistia, a professional video hosting company, put together this quick video explaining how companies in any industry can benefit …