Your website is often the first place a customer will interact with your business. It should reflect your brand, be easy to use and showcase your unique selling points. Over… Read More
Why We Use WordPress
It’s 2019 and anyone can “build a website” with just a few clicks. There are numerous website builders that promote the promise of a “same day website” and “no developer… Read More
The Principles of Art and Graphic Design
Have you ever stopped to think about what goes into creating a print ad for your organization? Or the steps that a designer or creative team takes when crafting each… Read More
If You Don’t Define Success, You Are Setting Yourself Up for Failure
Picture this: you’ve just walked in to 434 Marketing for your first meeting with the team. We sit around the table, chat about the weather and eat a few donuts…. Read More
If you want to work on your brand, stop thinking about your logo.
Every so often, a person or an organization will reach out to us for a consultation with one very specific quest in mind: They want to redesign their “brand”. When… Read More
An open letter to my team.
Dear Team, One of my favorite business authors, Jim Collins, says it well: “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” On Friday, a vision came to life as we launched… Read More
How Crucial Conversations Changed How Our Team Communicates
Crucial Conversations, written by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler, is a business self-help book that works to uncover the formula for having real, honest and professional… Read More
Why Customer Reviews Matter
Picture this. You’ve just moved to a new city. You’re unpacking all of your belongings and then you see it—a cockroach. It’s the last thing you need after a stressful… Read More
How to Talk to Your Marketer About SEO
As marketers, we often run into people who try to “speak our language”. They throw around terms such as “optimize”, “analytics” and “algorithm”. But, the one term that we hear… Read More
Pillar and Cluster Content and What They Mean for SEO
It seems like every single time Google changes its algorithms, new nomenclature comes out regarding SEO strategies. There are some tactics that are purely reactionary—throwing that spaghetti up against the… Read More