A Checklist for Digital Ad Success

Thinking about running ads online? The best practices for digital ads change just about every week, but a few things remain steady. Each time we run a campaign, we run through a checklist to make sure we’re serving the right ads to the right people at the right time. Doing this makes sure we get…

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Why Your Website Needs Ongoing Maintenance

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There. You’ve done it. You’ve spent months working with your web team to create a new website and now (exhale) it’s live! So…what’s next? Now, we get right back to work. Your new site is not a one and done experience. Now is the time to see how it performs for your site guests and…

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Creating an Online Ordering Experience Without an ECommerce Site

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If you have a product-based business, selling online is nearly a necessity to expand your business. And sometimes, moving the buying experience online isn’t as simple as plugging product information into an out-of-the-box ecommerce solution. How we created an online store WITHOUT an ecommerce solution Yoderbilt Greenhouses has been selling handmade greenhouses for over a…

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We posted daily on TikTok for 90 days. Here’s what we learned.

With short form video leading the charge in all things social content, we leaned in and really tested what everyone preaches about short form platforms like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and IG Reels: consistency. Here’s a breakdown of what we did, how we did it, and what we learned for our clients looking to take on…

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The Perfect Match: PR Firms & Fierce Creative

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Part of our work here at Fierce is to support public relations teams – and, for a bunch of creatives, I like to think that we’ve got it down to a science. Early in my career, I worked in both corporate advertising and then at a PR firm. With those experiences, I learned quickly that…

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Sprint, Don’t Walk. Marketing an Event in 45 Days

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When you don’t have six months to roll out an event marketing strategy, 45 days will have to do. This spring, we started working with InvestMidwest to market their first event back in person since 2019. When they came to us with a quickly-approaching event, we jumped right in to get the word out on…

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The Action Plan

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As the team lead, it’s my job to ensure that we stay creatively fed and have proper headspace to ideate. It’s the most abstract and constant challenge for working creatives. The expectation is that we don’t stop flowing with ideas and fresh thinking. That it just pours out of us at all hours. For the…

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What does it mean to manage your brand?

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Once your brand is set and launched out into the world, it’s time to manage and nurture it. To do that, you need to ensure that your brand is associated with the intended characteristics for customers to connect with. These associations are made through consistency and repetition. If you want your brand to be remembered…

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Posting With Value

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When we create content to be shared on social media, we want to make sure it reaches the right audience, at the right time, with the right message. The baseline for achieving that is providing value with each and every post. A few weeks ago, I shared a few notes about how posting consistently is…

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The Importance of Your Buyer’s Cycle

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The customer buying cycle is the process customers go through before they make a purchase. You might be asking, “What in the world does that have to do with me?” If you’re a business selling any sort of product, then it has everything to do with you. You see, the buyer’s cycle is so important…

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