Not even a pandemic can save broadcast television. As America opens up again after being told to stay home last year, we're getting new data about some of the long term affects of the COVID-19 pandemic. And since I'm a media and marketing dude, not a doctor, I'm...
Whether it’s fishing, hunting, selling, or advertising, setting the bait is key to alluring or attracting that which you are trying to capture. Since the beginning of time, it’s been known that you only have one opportunity to make a good first impression and...
"Nobody listens to regular radio anymore". I've heard that myth every year for years. My predecessors, heard a similar myth I'm sure when music became portable. Phonograph records have been around for more than a century but in order to listen to them, you needed a...
2020 was a year of change for multiple reasons including Covid, the Black Lives Matter movement and political division at an increased level. The consequences of 2020 is that consumers habits have changed, some at an accelerated rate due to the way we had to adapt...
What's going on in the media and marketing world now that we've gone through the first year of a worldwide pandemic? As an insider to information that you don't have access to, I have some answers. And let me preface this by stating, no the pandemic is not over, the...
People are talking about you. You probably don't know half the things they are saying. Unless you are diligently monitoring online social media, review sites and chat rooms, you don't know unless someone tells you what they saw. How important are these reviews?...
If you want to earn a consumers business this year, you have to appeal to what matters most to them. That statement is true if you are selling Land Rovers or if you are running a dollar store. It's also been a truth that has been around forever, but now I have a fresh...
It's not all it's cracked up to be. The whole magical world of digital advertising online. For the past decade plus, I've seen study after study after study that talked about the shift in advertising from traditional ads to digital ads. As a point of reference,...
You cut your advertising, you could lose a heck of a whole lot more than you realize. Odds are against your business ever recovering. There are multiple stories over the past 100 years of how during an economic downturn a business cut their advertising and ultimately...