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...
The Scott Howard Genuine ScLoHo Media & Marketing Podcast turns 200 this week. To me, that's a little bit of a bragging right. For you, perhaps it will give you a little bit of confidence or trust in what you are reading or listening to. Indulge me for a moment...
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,...
As much as we want to kiss the year 2020 good-bye and move forward as if it never happened, we can't. And we shouldn't. 12 months ago all of us were planning on a very different year than what unfolded in 2020. The economy seemed to be moving forward after a market...
Man oh man, has this been a wild year. Besides a world wide pandemic that we still don't fully understand, we are winding down an outrageous political election season in the United States that on a national scale we won't know the results of until after the special...
As we move toward a new year, many business owners are attempting to figure out the best bang for their buck when it comes to marketing and advertising. If you are in the Northeast Indiana region, specifically Fort Wayne, Indiana and nearby communities and you want to...
Have you heard the classic tale of the two shoe salesmen who were sent to a remote third-world village to sell shoes? When they arrived at the village, one immediately sent a message to his office saying, “There’s a problem. No one here wears shoes. Will return...
In the old media world, 86% of advertising budgets went towards production and delivery costs that are totally unnecessary in the new electronic media age. This archaic mode of communication came at the cost of harvesting trees, operating expensive pulp and paper...
9 months is the usual length of time it takes a baby to develop from conception to being born. During those 9 months, the new parents are preparing for the future, the changes that will be occurring in their lives, especially if they are first time parents. While each...