The 5 Ingredients For Better Email Marketing
Happy Cinco De Email! With these 5 simple ingredients, you can make a crowd-pleasing email campaign — essentially the 5-Layer Dip of your own digital marketing fiesta.
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What you should ask of your agency right now.
These are unprecedented times. Every company, including ad agencies, is navigating something that we’ve never seen before in our lifetime. And as many businesses look at temporary closures or a huge shift in their business model (like restaurants, bookstores and even boutiques going to a “pick-up only” or “online-only” model) there are many things they… Read more »
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Lucky Eagle Gets Real
If you look at most casino advertising, you see a group of people in their mid-to-late 20s happily surrounding a slot machine or craps table, throwing their heads back in victorious laughter. But if you go to most casinos, you’ll see the truth – that 60% of casino visitors are over the age of 50,… Read more »
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Fish@15: The story continues…
This is Fish’s 15th year, and last Fish Wrap, we laid out the humble beginnings of Fish—in a basement with folding tables for desks—and its growth in the first five years.
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Photography For Your Brand On Any Budget
You’re working hard to grow your company. Your branding is on point and products/services are dialed in, but you’re missing photography and you don’t have a huge budget to do it.
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Facebook Canvas – The Cadillac of Facebook Ads
Driving by a billboard, watching a commercial or walking into a store; which of these is going to leave a more lasting impression? On Facebook, most advertisers use single image ads or may have experimented with occasional video ads. You may not know that Facebook offers a more premium, immersive ad unit that can be… Read more »
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15 Years of Fish: Lessons from the First Five
This year, we’re celebrating 15 years since Doug Fish had the audacity and spirit to start Fish Marketing. If you’re counting, that’s 5,479 days, 217 clients, one Guinness World Record, and 15 office dogs. Fish Marketing began in January of 2003 in the basement suite of a building off Multnomah Boulevard on the Max tracks in… Read more »
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Facebook is Changing. What Does That Mean for Your Business?
Facebook is changing. Mark Zuckerberg has announced a massive News Feed algorithm change aimed at delivering more meaningful content to users from their friends & family, and less passively consumed information from Pages and businesses. What does this mean for your company?
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Making Sure Your Targeted Marketing Doesn’t Miss the Mark
A couple months ago, I was an innocent woman in my 40s, minding my own business, setting my Pandora to shuffle Joni Mitchell, Patty Griffin and Ricky Lee Jones, as a woman in her 40s is wont to do. And I got an ad served to me. It was definitely targeted at the right demographic,… Read more »
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When holiday advertising goes wrong
We know many companies need to make a good chunk of their profits during the holiday season, but these vintage holiday ads were a bit…misguided.
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The elements of a successful photo shoot
Some companies feel comfortable producing their own photo shoots. Others look to their ad agencies to handle it. Which should you choose? Check out what went into our last shoot, and decide for yourself. The challenges of a floating shoot Last month, we produced a photo shoot for one of Brand Director Alex Brauer’s longtime… Read more »
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3 Tips to Increase Lift Ticket Sales
Find Your Audiences Lift tickets have a number of audiences: competitors’ season pass holders, bluebird-only riders, tourists, friends of pass holders, casual riders who rent gear, lapsed skiers and curious ski newbies are just a few. Decide who you’d like to reach first, then be sure exclusionary targeting is a part of your plan (that… Read more »
Read More3 Tips to Increase Ski Season Pass Sales
Segment Your Audiences Season pass sales come primarily from three audience segments: 1. Repeat purchasers who’ve bought a few years in a row and have used their passes regularly. These are easy customers who just need to be reminded to purchase again soon—particularly before any price increases occur. 2. Newbies who, after spending the current… Read more »
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Traditional Media in a Digital World
With the advent of digital media, new forms of advertising are constantly bombarding people online; on laptops, tablets, even on smartphones. This modern trend is certainly affecting the age-old art of advertising, and lately, many clients rightfully believe that the most effective way to reach their audience is digitally. This begs the question: is… Read more »
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The Changing World of Inbound
Inbound marketing has long been a player in the marketing world, but it is becoming increasingly more important. In September, our director of inbound marketing, Michael Griffin, attended Hubspot’s Inbound conference in Boston. Inbound is the largest conference of its kind and is armed with high level and high profile speakers. It is geared toward… Read more »
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