ScLoHo Media & Marketing

The weekly published articles written by Scott Howard aka ScLoHo

Is It Time To Fall Out Of Love With Digital Ads?

Is It Time To Fall Out Of Love With Digital Ads?

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,...

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Staying Connected in 2021

Staying Connected in 2021

Depending upon your business category, acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing customer. Knowing this, it only makes sense to do everything you can to maintain a relationship with your current customers, better known as Core...

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Creating Success with WOWO Radio in 2021

Creating Success with WOWO Radio in 2021

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...

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Pivot

Pivot

This is my last article for 2020 due to the end of year holiday season and I was reflecting on this past year, one word came to mind. Pivot. Like everyone else in the United States, 2020 has not been the year we could have predicted a year ago. Murder hornets were...

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Caring For Your Customers

Caring For Your Customers

Do you appreciate your customers?  Think about this for just a minute and then answer it honestly. I’ll ask you again, do you appreciate your customers? I mean REALLY appreciate them! We’ll assume that you answered yes. Now, here is the most important question.  Do...

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Top of Google or Top of Mind

Top of Google or Top of Mind

In today’s changing media world, when it comes to your current customers and your future customers, is it more important to have Top of Mind Awareness or be at the top of the page on Google? Of course, it’s great to be recognized by both customers and Google, but if...

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Forget Politics

Forget Politics

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...

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Why WOWO is the Best Choice for Advertising (Part 3)

Why WOWO is the Best Choice for Advertising (Part 3)

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...

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Your 2021 Marketing Plan

Your 2021 Marketing Plan

2020 is thankfully coming to an end, and you have made it through another year in an increasingly competitive and complex environment!  Congratulations! But how is your future looking? Peter Drucker, who has been described as “the founder of modern business...

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Problems = Opportunities

Problems = Opportunities

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...

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Out with the Old, In with the New

Out with the Old, In with the New

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...

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Ask The Right Questions

Ask The Right Questions

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...

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Do Your Customers Trust You?

Do Your Customers Trust You?

Trust… It’s not just for personal relationships.  It’s a MUST in business too!   Put yourself in your customers’ shoes.  Do you trust the vendors that you do business with? Are they providing you with or doing things for you that consciously or subconsciously earn...

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Long Term Losses Over Short Term Cuts

Long Term Losses Over Short Term Cuts

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...

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