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How Are You Engaging With Consumers on Your Website?
Let’s play a game where you guess what generation I am classified from clues that I give you. First clue is that I am in bed every night at 8:30pm
Katie Pray
September 23, 2022
How to Use Digital Advertising During the Holiday Season
Turkey Trots, Macy Day Parade, Black Friday, Menorahs, Hanukkah, Santa Claus, Tree Lightings, and New Year’s!  Throw in a few other days like Columbus Day and Veterans Day and you have a whole lot of celebrating being done over the months of October – December.For ideas on Halloween, make sure you read this blog
Greg Swiszcz
September 21, 2022
How to Create Compelling Online Videos
Video is Hot Hot Hot and stats prove that it is in high demand by digital users.User-generated and professional videos increase brand engagement by 28%
Allison Gibson
September 9, 2022
How do Clients use Digital Advertising in October?
The Starbucks Pumpkin Spice latte debuts today, August 30, 2022.  Yes, there’s a feeling in the air with marketers, that October is right around the corner
Greg Swiszcz
August 30, 2022
Are You Investing in Digital this Political Season?
The “ber” months are approaching quickly and that means cooler weather, reasons to eat a lot of pie, and everyone’s favorite- political season. That’s right, political season is already ramping up and we are seeing and hearing ads for all sorts of political races from local ballots to nationwide races
Katie Pray
August 30, 2022
Are You Following the Proper Steps to Close Digital Sales?
ABC is an acronym for a lot of things. If you’re learning CPR, they teach you ABC to look for Airway, Breathing, and Circulation
Katie Pray
August 2, 2022
Getting Started with Google Business Profile: Your Ultimate Guide
Your Google Business Profile allows business owners to have more control over the information which Google displays about businesses when it populates Search results pages and Google Maps.  This used to be called Google My Business but has since been renamed
Greg Swiszcz
June 21, 2022
Health & Wellness & Digital
When the pandemic hit in early 2020, I do not think anyone had any idea how it would impact our daily lives. Work environments changed, school dynamics changed and the world of 6 feet of separation changed every industry, especially the health care world
Allison Gibson
June 1, 2022
Do You Know How to Speak Digital?
It’s one of my favorite episodes of Friends; The One Where Everybody Finds Out. Monica and Chandler are dating, and Joey is the only one that knows but Rachel and Phoebe eventually find out, except Monica and Chandler don’t know that they know
Katie Pray
May 23, 2022
How Are You Overcoming Digital Objections?
Being in sales can really make you relate to the life of a toddler in the sense that they are constantly told “no”. For example, when my three-year-old wants to wear shorts but it’s snowing outside, he hears “no”
Katie Pray
April 25, 2022
Why is Live Chat an Important Part of a Digital Campaign?
There are very few cities in the world that never sleep.  New York City and Las Vegas are the two here in the United States that come to mind
Greg Swiszcz
April 19, 2022
What are Google Image Extensions?
Move over Google Text Ads, PPC just got a lot more visual! Now introducing Google Image Extensions!Tada!What used to be a somewhat boring text ad on the Google Search Engine Results page, now when a user searches keywords related to a business, it can feature engaging images to really draw attention. Image extensions can help drive performance for advertisers, with compelling visuals of products or services that enhance the message of their text ads, and help businesses get noticed
Allison Gibson
April 14, 2022
Are You Using "Free Money" to Help Pay for Your Advertising?
Love makes the world go around, right? Sure it does, but so does money, and Jerry Maguire said it best; “Show me the money!” What could possibly be better than money? How about free money! In the advertising world, that is a real thing for certain businesses, and it is called Cooperative Advertising, or Co-Op. This is when advertisements by retailers include the specific mention of manufacturers or brands who in turn repay the retailers for all, or part of the cost of the advertisement
Katie Pray
April 4, 2022
Can Digital be Used for Marijuana Campaigns?
Yes, it CANnabis! Cannabis is a budding industry and is really starting to grow like a weed as more states start to legalize recreational use of marijuana. Support for legal marijuana is at an all-time high (no pun intended) of 68%, with the percent being even higher among 18 to 29 year old’s at 79%
Katie Pray
March 16, 2022
Using digital advertising for political campaigns
The votes were out and now they’re in!  No matter what party you represent, your goal is to win the election.   Digital Advertising is capable of aiding in your soon to be victory
Greg Swiszcz
February 25, 2022
What Goes Into An SEO Campaign?
It’s crazy to think that you can have a full-blown conversation these days with just letters. Have we come that lazy that we can’t type out “by the way” and instead just type BTW? The answer, sadly, is yes
Katie Pray
February 16, 2022
How can I use Social Media Stories to promote my business?
Storytelling, one of society’s greatest tools in sharing the narrative that you want people to understand, has changed a lot since the days of fireside chats and Shakespearean stages.
Greg Swiszcz
February 14, 2022
Facebook is making more Chhhhhhanges
Facebook has made a whole slew of new updates. Lucky for you, Vici is giving you the latest and greatest information and how this can impact campaigns and Facebook moving forward
Allison Gibson
January 28, 2022
Who’s spending money on digital advertising and what products are they using?
Whether you’re a business owner looking for the right product to carry your message to potential customers, or a salesperson looking to help a local business, it’s always nice to see success stories to help solidify your choice in your marketing efforts.There are so many different industries out there
Greg Swiszcz
January 12, 2022
Digital Buzzwords and Acronyms
What’s the Buzz, tell me what’s happening!” All these words and phrases can make your head spin.We not only live in a world where things change daily, but we abbreviate and shorten everything
Allison Gibson
December 15, 2021
Are You Considering a New Digital Provider?
Update: Facebook shuttered Jobs on Facebook (February 2023) and Instant Articles (April 2023)Are you an ad agency considering or perhaps re-evaluating how to manage all your digital advertising for clients? Whether you are a one-person agency, a startup, or a team of seasoned professionals, everyone reaches the point where they can not efficiently do it all on their own. Hiring and training staff members to specifically work on digital marketing can be time consuming, expensive, and extremely stressful
Dana Bojcic
December 6, 2021
How To Use Digital Ads To Target Travelers For Tourism & Travel Businesses
I’m leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when I’ll be back again. (Did you just reread that so you can sing it?)  OK, I’m not currently taking a trip, though that sounds amazing right now, but a lot of people are
Greg Swiszcz
November 18, 2021
What are LinkedIn Ads?
Have you ever wanted to reach a specific type of person at a specific business? Or wanted to try and recruit a specific job title or person in a certain field? Well, now you can with LinkendIn ads. With more than 72% of full-time employees on LinkedIn and 4 out of 5 people on LinkedIn “drive business decisions” it is a great place to be for B2B and Recruiting needs
Allison Gibson
November 8, 2021