Co-written with Summer/Fall 2024 intern Tyler Raterink Finding effective ways to provide value that resonates with customers can be challenging. In a time when short-form videos and social media are taking brand marketing by storm, it may be shocking to hear that blog...
This story was published in the West Coast Way Magazine in June 2024. Earlier this year, leaders from local businesses and organizations participated in the Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce’s first ever Washington D.C. Fly-In event. For three days in mid-March,...
I would like to say that we attended 50+ of the most awkward video meetings so you didn’t have to, but chances are you’ve attended your fair share of cringe-worthy video chats in the last couple of months. Aside from the initial “Am I muted?” to “Can everyone see me...
This year companies are unable to volunteer in the standard planting trees, trash pick-up, and sorting food ways, but that may open the door to creating more meaningful volunteer experiences for all.
The Coronavirus will surely leave it’s mark on the business world. But maybe in its hostile takeover, COVID-19 will dispose of one of the most meaningless marketing tools yet, the business card.
So much has changed in the business landscape in just a few short weeks. It’s likely that things won’t bounce back for quite some time from Covid 19. And even when they do, there will be many long term changes in the way we do business.
As we enter the first workday under Michigan’s shelter-in-place order today, many of us will be forced to learn how to effectively work from home. I’ve spent the majority of my adult life as a remote worker living overseas, and as a result, I’ve had to learn a thing...
Businesses are dynamic, living, perpetual motion machines. The one thing businesses aren’t made to do is sit around and wait. Enforced idleness is anathema to business leaders, and in our present situation it’s combined with another element we dislike almost as much–uncertainty.
What does high school math have to do with strategic marketing? Find out in our latest post as Leanne Schaeffer draws the connection between strategic marketing and the dreaded, but perhaps underappreciated, mathematical proof.
If you’ve been active in the business world lately, you’ve certainly heard of content marketing. But what is content marketing and how do these companies have time to produce all these blogs, videos and posts on top of their already busy days?