Strategy
How Marketing Amplifies Value: A Strategic Approach to Growth
Effective marketing is about amplifying a product or service's inherent value. This involves understanding the unique value proposition, choosing the right channels to communicate it, and connecting with the target audience.
Read More »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
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Navigating LLMs: Hot Takes on the Most Popular Large Language Models
By:Jason Clark on 2/14/2024
We're dissecting the hottest LLMs like OpenAI and Dall-E, spilling the tea on their superpowers and flaws. From creative chaos to job-stealing robots, buckle up for a wild ride through the future of AI (with a hefty dose of hot takes).
Read More »11 Tips to Build an Impactful Social Media Strategy for Any Business
By: Ajla Bedzetovic on 6/29/2023
With over 93% of the world's internet users on social media, businesses that haven't built a meaningful social media presence are missing out on lucrative opportunities.
Read More »Putting Your Customer Data to Work
By:Nick Wunderlin on 6/20/2023
Find out how you can leverage existing customer lists in marketing.
Read More »AI Writing: Pros, Cons, Insights, and Powerful Tools
By: Ajla Bedzetovic on 4/6/2023
Good human writing requires time, thought, and practice. Are AI writing tools replacing the need for skilled staff writers? Read on to learn about one of the biggest topics in 2023.
Read More »Now is the Time to Upgrade to Google Analytics 4
By:Nick Wunderlin on 3/15/2023
Marketers have until the end of June 2023 to complete the Google Analytics 4 migration without losing data on their website or application. Learn everything you need to know.
Read More »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.
Read More »Your Website's Performance Could Be Costing Time and Money
By:Alec Robertson on 8/5/2022
A poor-performing website can impact your customer’s experience with your brand. It can reduce conversion rates, affect the perception of your brand, and even cost your customers time and money. Learn how to ensure your website is performing to its full potential, the benefits of a performant website for your business and customers, and a case study illustrating the effectiveness of this work.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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!
Read More »WARE + VIA Studio: A Partnership that can Handle the Pressure
By:Nick Wunderlin on 9/7/2021
We hit the ground running when we started our partnership with WARE Inc in 2020, a year in and we've kept each other busy!
Read More »Parched Madness 2021 Recap
By:Nick Wunderlin on 6/16/2021
A return to a familiar social engagement campaign, as we begin returning to our familiar everyday lives.
Read More »Apple iOS 14 Privacy, Facebook, VIA and You
By:Ben Wilson on 1/28/2021
Looking at the major impact that Apple's new privacy-focused iOS 14.4 will have on the world of privacy - specifically digital advertising. We'll look at why this is important, why Facebook is scared, and what we at VIA think about it.
Read More »Looking Inward to Move Forward: The VIA Rebrand
By:Ben Wilson on 11/12/2020
A retrospective of VIA's ever-changing approach and constant commitment to partnership.
Read More »A Critical Look at Spotify's Algorithms, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Algorhythm
By:Ben Wilson on 11/6/2020
Director of Strategy Ben Wilson takes a critical look at the pros and cons of one of the world's biggest drivers of music discovery and consumption: the Spotify Discover Weekly algorithm.
Read More »We Don't Sell Products - How Do We Measure Success with Our Website?
By:Ben Wilson on 8/25/2020
Director of Strategy Ben Wilson gives you some strategies to a very valuable (and common) question.
Read More »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.
Read More »How To Adapt Your Business During the Coronavirus Pandemic
By:Nick Wunderlin on 4/28/2020
Coronavirus/COVID-19 is currently impacting just about every aspect of daily life. There is no clear timeframe for when we can go back to normal and it might take a long time. Nonetheless, life and business will need to continue and adapt to this new norma...
Read More »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...
Read More »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...
Read More »