Posts by awalden

The ONLINE User Experience and YOU

computer softwarediv> Presentation Deck You got ‘em to your website – now what? Getting in front of the users is only half the battle. Some of the world’s largest organizations are increasing their marketing budgets by nearly 13 percent to emphasize the online user experience. How do decision makers justify the expense? 1. Improved brand […]

You – Your Agency’s Secret Weapon

Your agency’s best work — and the ROI to prove it — begins with you CMOs, marketing directors and business owners underestimate the enormous impact they play in creating powerful advertising and marketing for their company. Greg Fine, principal and creative director at Ding Communications, offers a few thoughts on how you can wring the […]

You – Your Agency’s Secret Weapon

Your agency’s best work — and the ROI to prove it — begins with you CMOs, marketing directors and business owners underestimate the enormous impact they play in creating powerful advertising and marketing for their company. Greg Fine, principal and creative director at Ding Communications, offers a few thoughts on how you can wring the […]

Great Ideas Can Come From Anywhere

Staying outside the recycle bin. It’s been said that marketing is 1% inspiration, 29% perspiration, 70% plagiarism. If Shakespeare were writing today, he’d probably be in trouble for all his borrowed plots and characters. But – trademarks, copyrights, plagiarism, oh my. What can get us into trouble and how can we stay safe while maintaining […]

World-Class Naming & Branding For The Overworked & Underfunded

Say you’re a marketing department of one, tasked with writing, designing, and telling your customers everything about your company’s products and services, from print to web to social media. Where do you start? According to branding agency owner David Branby, “Work from the brand forward. If your brand is in the right place, everything else […]

Building remarkable brands through a social ecosystem

The content people create about your brand matters more than content you create about yourself. Consumers trust eachother more than they trust your brand, and social media, through Yelp, Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, and more gives them easy access to their trusted network. Social media is a core component that drives brand perception and your marketing […]

Traffic Tips: How to drive buyers to your website

Internet marketing is the most cost effective and successful form of advertising to reach your target audience. Up to 72% of shoppers do research online prior to purchase, so how can your company land on the top of their search results page? It’s called search engine optimization, or SEO. Our speaker, Michael Fitzpatrick, helps highly […]

Art Slaves 2010 – Call for Entries

The Advertising Association  of Northern Nevada Art Slaves 2010  Show  and  Sale  is  a  group  exhibition  featuring fine  art, music  and written word  created  by  communication professionals  from  the  Truckee  Meadows.  It  is  a  true, “anything  goes”  kind  of  show…painting,  sculpture,  mixed medium, ceramics, photography, music, audio/video, written word,  performance  art:  traditional,  experimental  and  the […]

Google Marketing Tools

It’s hard to imagine a world without Google. Yet many people don’t realize Google offers free marketing tools which are extremely valuable in promoting services or products online. Get the insider’s scoop about Google’s free tools and see a demonstration of the unique features they offer. Everyone is profiting from Google, why not you? Learn […]

Re-inventing Your Brand

Doing the same thing and expecting different results is insanity.  But change is hard and uncomfortable, so what’s a marketer to do? The RSCVA has seen a decade of declining visitation, now worsened by the mother of all recessions. Michael Thomas, executive director of marketing, will tell about the process to revitalize the region’s brand, […]