This past week I had an educational session on branding, marketing strategy, SEO and social media at the Excellence in Entrepreneurship course for start up CEO’s and executives. This Friday I will be speaking at the Invention to Venture boot camp about the same topic. I finished up revising my presentation earlier this week and…
Have you ever thought what it would be like if Facebook existed years ago? I recently came across this funny post on cafe mom…Well worth sharing! Hope you get some laughs from it. Enjoy!
It’s no secret that reaching more customers is a goal of nearly all business owners. As I discussed in a previous post…your potential and current customers are online and searching. There are roughly 5,500 searches that occur every second. That’s right….every second! The harsh reality is….roughly 90% of all of those searches will not venture…
Last year on this date, September 6th, I officially started Brand Advance. We started debt free without investment and were cash flow positive from day one. We had a great first year & have an awesome team made up of very smart, motivated & talented people. We’ve had over 100 design, marketing and consulting projects…
Are you a business owner who is wondering how you can get the most value out of social media? So many business owners I speak to sign up for twitter and facebook with no real strategy. They simply sign up because they have heard the buzz about these networks, or because someone said that they…
Robert Urban, Chief Marketing Officer of Brand Advance, recently wrote an awesome white paper giving suggestions on when it makes more sense for a company to train an existing employee, hire a new employee, or to utilize the services of a marketing agency for various marketing initiatives. Here’s the link to download the white paper:…
As many of you may have heard, the story of Facebook is going to be hitting the big screen in a movie called “The Social Network”. Here is the link to the official Social Network movie trailer if you haven’t seen it yet. Recently the internet comedy channel Indy Mogul came up with an awesome…
Facebook just announced that they are rolling out a new Questions and Answer feature. The product feature is currently being tested and was only rolled out to a small beta group as of now. This feature will allow questions to be asked and then answered by the entire Facebook community. Additional details on the feature’s functionality…
We’re very excited to announce that we have hired a new creative director to join the Brand Advance team. Here are some details from a recent press release: Cutting-Edge Artist Named Creative Director for Orlando’s Brand Advance ORLANDO, Fla. (July 2, 2010) – Rich Johnson, an award-winning artist who has distinguished himself as an innovator…
Recently Brand Advance was referred to a growing author and successful business man to generate buzz and awareness for his upcoming book and tour. After several interactions with him it was clear that he was viewing social media as traditional “push” marketing. The points below were articulated to him in an email…specific aspects of the…