Stephanie vs. Email
As the principal of a busy digital ad agency in Phoenix, it is my job to keep the company organized, keep our clients happy, make certain that projects are done on time and communicate with an owner that I would…
Make Media Great Again
ReThinc Advertising has drastically increased their media buying efforts in the Phoenix market these past two years. If all goes as planned we will be doing the same in the Seattle / Tacoma market next year. Media buying (both digital…
Marketing That Gets an “A” for Attribution
I recently received an email from one of our clients that contained these two brief sentences: This is the vision for our relationship. Finding the right attributes that demonstrate successful results with clear ROI across the various marketing channels we…
SEO is Overrated
I was making a random list of things that were overrated; it looked something like this - turkey bacon, Latin jazz, soccer, search engine optimization, breakfast at OHSO, and suddenly I’m like WAIT... HOW CAN I SAY THAT ANYTHING THAT…
UP TO BOT – The Good and Bad of Internet Bot Traffic
I’ve got bad news. Your digital media buy has been compromised. Those impressions you counted on to improve your sales efforts weren’t exactly served to the potential customer you had targeted. Unfortunately, that gleeful young sales rep with the used…
Blogs with Benefits
A few weeks ago everyone at ReThinc was encouraged to write a guest blog for our website. Having guest bloggers is the “cool” new thing to do. While staring blankly at the white paper and blinking cursor, I wasn’t sure…
Don’t Box Me In
According to a recent study by Media Dynamics, the typical American consumer is exposed to an average of 360 ad messages each day. That’s impressive. That being said, this study goes on to say that we (typical Americans) outright ignore…
Technomarketing
It’s probably the world’s greatest understatement to say that technology and automation have had an impact on marketing. Just to be real here we could easily take the words ‘marketing’ out of that last sentence and replace it with just…
Dear Ad Sales Professionals…
Owning an ad agency here in Phoenix has given me an interesting perspective on what I used to do for a living... namely, selling media. Let’s establish a couple of givens. Companies that sell you media are ‘for profit’ just…