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Marketing Strategy

AI and SEO: New Rules for Success

By:Jason Clark on 3/19/2025

AI has transformed traditional SEO strategies by enhancing content creation capabilities, analyzing detailed website data, and identifying trends that can inform strategic decisions.

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The Case for the Marketing Budget Leap

By:Ben Wilson on 2/10/2025

You ever bite a stick of butter? 🧈 No? OK let me back up. 🔙 I'm fond of saying "like too little butter spread over too much bread". This a paraphrase of Bilbo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings. He's describing how "thin" he feels after having held onto the One Ring for too long. 💍 It's parasitic power has slowly worn him out. He's done. 😮‍💨 (here comes the marketing tie-in... wait for it... waaaait for it) This is similar to clients that I see that are OBSESSED with stretching 🙆🏽‍♀️ a meager marketing budget.

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Learnings from Fire & Spark's "Zero Click" Marketing Seminar

By:Jason Clark on 2/10/2025

Marketing is evolving, and many of the tactics that worked in the past are becoming less effective. Learn what priorities matter in 2025.

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Strategy Isn't Mysterious, It's Just Goals and Priorities

By:Ben Wilson on 1/29/2025

Listen - we've all been there. Introducing ourselves on a Zoom call. The Account Manager, the Creative Director, the Developer. Clients *get* what they do, instinctively. We can imagine them working, kicking out agendas, designs, code - providing *real value*.

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2024 Holiday Gift Guide for Web & Design Geeks

By:Jason Clark on 11/4/2024

Welcome to our 14th Annual Holiday Gift Guide for Web & Design Geeks! Each year, our team puts together our top, hand-picked gifts to help you explore new ideas for everyone on your holiday list. Our gift ideas include everything from experiences to tangible, practical, (sometimes) affordable, and sentimental gifts. Happy holiday season to you and yours! - The VIA Team

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What I Learned About Marketing from Fantasy Football

By: Nick Wunderlin on 8/9/2024

As a Strategist, I have overseen numerous marketing campaigns. In my personal life, I have also overseen countless fantasy football teams. Between my time as a marketing strategist and a make-believe football coach, I have found many parallels between the roles.

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Boost Your Social Media Game: Agorapulse vs. Adobe Express

By: Nick Wunderlin on 5/7/2024

Two tools have truly stood out and won our hearts — Agorapulse and Adobe Express. These tools have consistently delivered exceptional results, making us confident recommending them to our clients and partners.

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Unlocking Growth: Choosing the Right CRM Tool for Your Business's Scale and Success

By: Nick Wunderlin on 4/17/2024

A common theme from new clients is that they have difficulty tracking their communications and interactions with prospects and customers. A CRM solves that problem.

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Putting Your Customer Data to Work

By: Nick Wunderlin on 6/20/2023

Find out how you can leverage existing customer lists in marketing.

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Why Your Brand Deserves a Concept

By:Jason Clark on 10/28/2022

Find out how VIA’s brand strategy approach inspires our team to create truthful and compelling brands that last.

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Roadmapping Your Strategic Initiatives

By:Jason Clark on 7/27/2022

Our own broad-based roadmap to shape up branding and marketing is simple and effective. Learn how roadmapping helps guide strategic initiatives.

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Email
Email @ 50: Retrospective + The Future of Email
Email @ 50: Retrospective + The Future of Email

By: Nick Wunderlin on 11/19/2021

Welcome to the final installment of our Email @ 50 series. In this last article, Email @ 50 contributors review what they learned from writing this series and look ahead to the future of email.

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How To Upload .gif Display Ads to Google Ads

By:Morgan Plappert on 10/18/2021

Having trouble uploading .gif assets to use as display ads in Google Ads? So were we. However, we found a solution, check it out!

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2020 Marketing Survey Options

By: Nick Wunderlin on 8/11/2020

With many businesses and organizations being forced to pivot their operations or change their product offering this year, now is a great time to review some options to collect user or customer feedback in the form of surveys.

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Nintendo's Strategy to Fight the Console Wars

By: Nick Wunderlin on 4/20/2020

Console video game systems are a hotly debated topic. Users typically are extremely loyal to their preferred system and the internet is full of message boards and threads of fierce debate over which console is superior. These debates however, typically foc...

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Spotify - A Low Barrier Option for Entry into Streaming Ads

By: Nick Wunderlin on 3/10/2020

Recently VIA Studio launched our first streaming audio campaign for the Jewish Community Center of Louisville on Spotify. The process of setting up and launching this campaign could not have been any easier. In this blog post I hope to share some of my lea...

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Won't you be my neighbor: getting creative with display

By: Amber Glisson on 8/1/2014

At VIA we love the chances we get to explore our creativity. See how we were inspired by our neighborhood!

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