Everyone and their mother might as well have one. The popularity and exposure is exactly why some brands may benefit from adding podcasts to their content marketing. Podcasts allow users to share their expertise, form connections with guests to expand their network, add personality and actual “brand voice” to a brand, and offer a convenient form of media to followers. If a podcast is high quality, offering value to the listener, and marketed well, it will be successful.
Read MoreBusiness to Consumer brands (B2C) have always benefited from taking a humanistic approach to marketing, while Business to Business (B2B) brands seem more impersonal, dry, and buttoned up. The spike in automation and behavioral, social, and mobile data, however, has influenced how brands communicate with consumers. Now, the line between the B2B and B2C is beginning to blur.
Read MoreAgencySparks selected a few video marketing tools that may help spruce up your content creation process, enhance your social media posts, simplify video editing, and add to any creative strategy. If you have a flexible marketing budget and can experiment with the idea of changing up what type of platform your content is consumed on, take the risk and venture into investing in the audio/visual realm!
Read MoreThe last time there was a battle near Atlanta, the city ended up in flames. This time, a blue wave washed over Atlanta for the Super Bowl LIII weekend. In the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, Pepsi took over Coca-Cola’s turf, along with other foes to Atlanta-native brands, made their presence known.
How does a brand respond to such monstrosities? When their hometown, their sanctuary, is quickly overtaken by competitors?
Read MoreAgencySparks selected a few project management platforms that help businesses with managing projects more efficiently. These tools can be used in tandem with a project manager or help a team construct an effective project management plan for day to day actions.
Read MoreMatchmaking between brands and agencies has always been our bread and butter… but we are often asked for help filling marketing job openings or connecting marketers with potential jobs. In one sense, we have always been amateur recruiters, so it is time to formalize the offering.
To fulfill our promise to brands as a go-to marketing resource, Setup is now offering recruiting as a service.
Read MoreAccording to Hubspot, 61% of companies cite lead generation as their biggest marketing challenge. The consumer journey includes more touch-points than ever, making it more complex and harder to generate and nurture leads.
AgencySparks selected a few lead generation tools to help marketers generate and close deals with high-quality leads.
Read MoreMarketing is constantly evolving. In the past, keywords, SEO, experiential, AR/VR technology, live video, and social platforms have turned marketers’ heads. Now, marketers are trying to implement more and more voice search technology as it grows in popularity.
Each year brings some new invention that reshapes the marketing world. Marketers need to willingly evolve their marketing strategy as their priorities shift and technology evolves. Based on trends and performances in 2018, here are three marketing trends to keep an eye on in 2019.
Read MoreThe chances a company can afford to hire a professional photographer every time a visual is needed for a graphic or ad design are slim. To counteract this, companies buy photo subscriptions for up to $500 for professional photos - something that may be out of the budget range for some marketers.
Fortunately, there are several free stock image tools for the social media managers, content creators, bloggers, graphic designers, and ad creators who need to design at a rapid pace but may lack a hefty marketing budget or photography experience.
Read MoreJust like how a marching band has multiple sections to sound good, a marketing agency has multiple departments to function properly. Navigating the different roles and purposes of each department can get confusing and overwhelming, however.
Here is a simple breakdown of some typical agency departments (and the roles within) for those interested in working in/for a marketing or advertising agency.
Read MoreEverywhere you look there are award-winning tools that take the cake in helping creatives edit, create, and design graphic work…and then there are the little guys who may not be as “advanced” feature-wise but are just as effective.
With so many creative tools to choose from, we’ve selected a handful of free tools that are useful for minute, day-to-day tasks - check them out!
Read MoreWhen do you need to stop using your in-house team for every project and hire a marketing agency? Finding an agency who is an expert in your industry with a hefty skill set may be difficult at first, but with the proper guidance, it is just what you need to succeed.
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