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Are You Ready for What's Next?

Are You Ready for What's Next?

How Leighton Interactive is helping one energy powerhouse tell their story A lot has changed in the past few weeks. The coronavirus crisis has affected everything from our well-being to our ability to do our jobs. But are there things about how we ar…

How to Stay Innovative in Marketing

How to Stay Innovative in Marketing

Are you struggling to stay innovative in marketing, because there are just simply too many things changing, and your daily tasks have you buried? Or, maybe you don’t even know where to go or what to do to stay innovative.

Spin Sucks Question: Cultivating Customer Brand Ambassadors

Spin Sucks Question: Cultivating Customer Brand Ambassadors

This article was originally published in Spin Sucks by Laura Petrolino. It can be read in its entirety here. Spin Sucks' Laura Petrolino laid out a fantastic article about the future of brand ambassadors. This blog tackles customer brand ambassadors …

5 Marketing KPIs to Measure Customer Satisfaction

5 Marketing KPIs to Measure Customer Satisfaction

There are (in my opinion) pillars to customer service and then there are KPI's. I think much of customer service is hard to put an exact KPI to as it depends on so many variables: how do they feel today, what is going on in their world, how big of an…

How to Repurpose Content Like a Badass Botanist

How to Repurpose Content Like a Badass Botanist

Raspberries from Hopkins, MN Over a decade ago, my neighbor and dear friend Andy transplanted some of his prized raspberry bushes alongside the fence that runs around the property in my backyard. When I say prized, I mean prized. Special-as-hell. The…

Writing for Emotional Impact (Even in Marketing Blogs)

Writing for Emotional Impact (Even in Marketing Blogs)

Have you ever read the book "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls? When you get to the end, I promise you'll be crying like a baby. My daughter just completed fifth grader and her class had wrapped this book up and she lamented over its ending, …

7 Reasons Sponsoring an Event is a Brilliant Marketing Strategy

7 Reasons Sponsoring an Event is a Brilliant Marketing Strategy

It's the digital age — which means your potential customers are online and bombarded by endless opportunities and companies to work with. So, how do you stand out? You meet them where they go — the events they attend and watch from their computers. A…

Using Data to Improve the Effectiveness of B2B Content Marketing

Using Data to Improve the Effectiveness of B2B Content Marketing

What are the challenges B2B marketers face in bringing more sophistication to their content marketing efforts and making a much better connection between producing original content and spiking the bottom line? The most common challenges B2B companies…

9 Types of Video Production to Incorporate into your Marketing Efforts

9 Types of Video Production to Incorporate into your Marketing Efforts

Back when the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys ruled the airwaves, my friends and I were editing homemade BMX videos in the high school media center. The result was a pretty epic BMX video featuring 10 or so of our friends, as well as an awesome sound…