SEO: The Powerful Validation Tool
Is SEO dead? Not at all—it’s just misunderstood. One of the most useful applications for SEO is to validate the quality of your product or service. Validation, not lead generation, is why you need SEO.
Branding Tip: Understanding a Brand
You should do some branding!, what is your favorite brand? What type of brands do you like? We hear things like this all the time, but do we even know what a brand is? Most people will define a brand as a logo or a product, even a color or a name. There is…
Strategic Planning for the Present.
Some Eastern schools of thought maintain that the present and the future are the same—if we take this to heart, how should it affect our methods for developing a strategic plan for our business? Should businesses and Marketing Companies in Orange County Plan for what makes sense at the moment, or plan for some abstract…
Video Production | Communicating with Visual Aids
It is very exciting to work with online marketing; everybody wants a piece of the online action, and those small entrepreneurs that had no money for T.V. or radio ads are now able to promote their products and services with an amazing result in some cases. Almost every person you know has a smartphone, and…
Why We Love Flowers: The Essence of Brand Development
Even though all flowers grow from the same dirt, water, and sunlight, each flower has a specific story, its information, to tell the world. Brands should be the same way. It’s wildflower season, and in California, it’s looking to be an incredible one, with the very wet winter producing an explosive number of flowers in…
Build a Brand | Twelve12
As marketers, we do anything we can to build a brand; we use any tool and technology available to develop better and new branding strategies. We have talked in past articles about the online marketing trends and online content is still one of the favorite tools for marketing professionals.
From Seed to Sequoia: Timing is Everything
What type of plant would you like your brand to be? A dandelion, whose seeds spread like wildfire, can sprout almost anywhere, take almost nothing to grow, and, likewise sprout, grow, and return to the earth before you know it? Or, would you like your company more closely to resemble a sequoia tree, who, from…
Value + Validation: The Secret Sauce to Upping Your Marketing ROI
https://twelve12site.wpengine.com/blog/marketing/strategic-planning-gets-message-across/Full disclosure: there isn’t really a “secret sauce” or magic potion to make any marketing campaign successful. Sorry about that. What I can tell you about is a commonly overlooked aspect of brand identity that can have big implications for marketing strategy. When a business is looking for a marketing agency in Orange County, they…
Conveying your Message—How Much is Just Enough?
In the art of communication, strategy is vitally important. Anyone who has heard someone tell a good story instinctively knows that what is being told is almost less important in the moment than when and how it’s told. Good stories delay, they have you wait there in your seat until the story teller is done…
Checking Out Your Competitor’s Moves – Online Marketing
Online marketing evolves so fast, that it’s hard to keep up sometimes. Constant research and trials are necessary and benchmarking is one of the best options that you have to keep and improve your company’s current status. As I was telling you, the internet business has a habit of reinventing itself regularly and it is…