Category: content marketing

Growing Your Business: It’s a Balancing Act

by Rebekah Villon

Growing your business involves prioritizing and balancing multiple factors: Getting your work seen, and making work worth seeing Caring for the customers you have, and recruiting new ones Managing the factors you can control, and seeking to influence factors outside your control You can make the best guitars, or provide the best legal advice, or … Continue reading Growing Your Business: It’s a Balancing Act

Traditional Advertising has Negative Brand Equity

by Rebekah Villon

Thinking back to the days when I worked in infomercials, it’s not surprising how many people in the business use the products they sell. When you are in the agency, you have a lot of direct access to the people who make the product. They answer all your questions about it, you often get to … Continue reading Traditional Advertising has Negative Brand Equity

Thinking Bigger: What is Your Brand Really About?

by Rebekah Villon

I have been thinking lately about B Corps and Sonos and mission-driven brands. Sonos is an interesting case, because they make speakers and audio systems. Fair enough. But speakers and audio systems aren’t what their brand is about. Sonos gives their mission as: …To reinvent home audio for the digital age. Our vision was simple … Continue reading Thinking Bigger: What is Your Brand Really About?

Brilliant Branded Content: The Fearless

by Rebekah Villon

Many years ago, an animation professor told me (and I think he is right): Never animate characters doing sports or athletic stuff. All the drama of watching that is from watching real people and wondering if they will be able to do it. There’s nothing compelling in watching an animated character do it. But then … Continue reading Brilliant Branded Content: The Fearless