30 Writing Prompts
Jump-Start Your Creativity With These 30 Helpful Business Writing Prompts Writing is hard. Every writer knows this, because they’ve spent time at the desk, staring into space wondering what in the hell to write about….
What Is an Advertising Creative Concept?
The Advertising Creative Concept Creativity is the soul of advertising. It’s the fundamental concept that drives business success, giving life and meaning to messages about a brand’s products and services. And if you’re not being creative…
How To Take Great Pictures for Marketing and Advertising
When it comes to photography for marketing and advertising, creativity and vision are only half the battle. Images play an essential role in marketing and advertising because they tell a story, convey a brand’s message,…
The Rule of Thirds in Photography
Everyone’s a photographer these days. But are they? Ever since high quality cameras have been added to phones, everyone thinks they’re a professional photographer. But then people look at the pictures they actually take with…
Interview with Daily Ad Brief
In this interview, Phillip Mandel talks with Daily Ad Brief on their segment, “More 2 Digital.” They discuss the “wild west” of digital media, and how privacy concerns must be balanced with marketers’ desire for…
Brand Names That Became Products
What Happens When Brand Names Become Synonymous With The Product? One might think the holy grail of marketing is to have your brand name become a verb, such as Googling (or a cliché, like “holy…
How To Use Color In Marketing and Branding
Color psychology is a field of marketing that doesn’t get talked about enough–but it’s around us all the time, in the five thousand messages we get sent to our brains each day. And though you may…
The Tyranny of Typography
Today we’re going to dive into what could be considered one of the world’s most boring topics: typography and fonts. Like streetlamps or trees, we see typography and fonts all day, every day, but never…
Branding In the Rain
People think they know what branding is, because it’s a word they hear all the time. But branding, while indeed ubiquitous in the modern world, is, for modern humans, kind of like water, to fish;…
Leggo Your Logo
Your Brand Logo Is Very Important To Your Business. As a marketing agency, we had go through an extensive logo and brand creation process — not only because we believe it’s important, but because it’s…