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With decades of experience in the marketing industry, we’ve learned some things along the way. More importantly, we continue to learn and adapt to an ever-changing marketplace and technological advances. The blogs on our site index our history of adapting and reacting to new challenges, and we hope our insight proves useful to solve one of your business challenges. If you have a question about marketing your business, use our contact form.
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Why Content is Still King in 2024 – Part 2
Readers Note: This is the second of a three-part series on content and content marketing. Read “Why Content is Still King Part 1.” Content Marketing 101 Content Marketing is the long-term online marketing strategy used to captivate, engage, incent, and retain audiences — existing and potential customers — with highly relevant content that builds your
Why Content is Still King in 2024 – Part 1
Owned, Earned, and Paid Media and Content Marketing If you’ve read any digital marketing or marketing strategy industry publication, email newsletter, or blog post in the past five to ten years, you’ve probably seen a “Content is King” or “Content Marketing is King” headline or post. In our opinion, the sentiment behind “Content is King”
Email Marketing is Still One of the Most Effective Marketing Strategies for Businesses
Creative Blend Design’s Top 15 Email Marketing Best Practices for 2024 The Creative Blend Design team strongly believes that content is king, email marketing is a critical content marketing pillar, AND email marketing is still one of the most effective marketing strategies for B2B and B2C businesses. Read more about owned, earned, and paid media
How To Avoid Domain Registration, Google Business Profile, and Phone Scams
A week or two doesn’t pass without me getting a perplexed call or email from a client asking, “We just got a domain renewal, appraisal, and management bill in the mail. Is this legit?” “We just got a call from Google and they wanted money to boost my listing?” “Is this domain renewal email a
AI, Your Business, and Business Marketing in 2024
AI. Artificial Intelligence. It has sparked global news headlines, congressional hearings, letter-writing campaigns by academics and business executives, pop culture fear—HAL, Roy Batty, WarGames, Skynet, M3gan—and more. Google Lab’s AI even tried to help me write this post (NOTE: AI didn’t contribute to this post). In this post, I focus on “What is AI” as
Branding 101 in 2024: Branding is More Important Than Ever.
Branding and brand building are essential parts of Creative Blend Design’s wheelhouse, and our team has an extensive track record of success. Today, branding is more important than ever because of the ever-increasing brand outposts and marketing channels. This post outlines what a brand is, the benefits of a strong brand, when to rebrand or
Email Marketing
As social media marketing and advertising popularity continue to skyrocket, some businesses have chosen to exclusively invest in social media marketing. While this might not seem like a bad idea, studies by McKinsey & Company, one of the largest global management consulting firms in the world, show that email marketing is up to 40 times
Creative Blend Design Named Top Website Design Firm by DesignRush
Creative Blend Design has been named one of the top Web Design Firms in San Antonio, TX by DesignRush Marketplace. DesignRush is a global agency network that leverages their revolutionary platform and experienced team to create synergistic partnerships between businesses and agencies. DesignRush analyzes and ranks hundreds of full-service agencies, so you don’t have to
Social E-Commerce: What It Is and Where to Find It
Social e-commerce has grown in popularity over the past year as retail shifted from in-person purchases to online purchases due to the pandemic. Because of that huge shift in consumer behavior, many social platforms added or enhanced their shopping features to add convenience to the shopping experience. Enter: social e-commerce, the newest way to interact,
