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HAPPY NEW YEAR! That felt fantastic. “Hey, last year, see you never.” Well, that’s not entirely true...before we store “2020” in the cloud (and in our minds) in the “DO NOT OPEN” file, let’s take a look back at some of the lessons learned and successes earned during this complicated, uncertain year.  We reached out to some of our fellow SMBs, asking them to share the silver linings that came about during this often dark time.  We share these “wins”

In the final 2020 episode of our Digital Breakthroughs podcast, we wanted to shake things up with a guest host! This week, our own Director of Marketing, Matt Erickson, took the podcast reigns and put CEO Bernard May in the virtual hot seat. To close out the year, our CEO wanted to unveil a new strategic marketing framework that we use for all our clients so you, too, can add it to your marketing toolbox for 2021.   We call

Every year, National Positions takes a look at all that’s happened surrounding digital marketing, ecommerce, and industry shifts to make our predictions as to where next year will take us.   Now, this year has obviously not been a normal year. This year all of the certainty about what we thought would happen and where we would be heading was shaken to its core—forcing us marketers to reassess what the future would hold.   This doesn’t mean that many of

It is no secret that in the world of marketing, branding, and advertising that the attention you get is often the measure of success. Or is it? All brands in (and out of) the digital ecosystem are constantly battling to be top of mind and striving to capture the lion’s share of search, ad clicks, social engagement, and far beyond. The mindset since the birth of digital marketing has been “the more attention you command, the more you can sell.”

Over the past decade or so, most brands have set their sites on launching holiday promotions a little after those Halloween costumes have done their tricking and treating and the Thanksgiving decorations are ready for their annual debut. Each year (as consumers) it feels like the holiday marketing season creeps into our lives a day or two earlier. Holiday lights are turned on a little sooner (and brighter) and the dreaded (or beloved—depends on who you are) holiday playlist is

Video content stimulates the senses and is easy to watch on mobile devices. Is it any wonder, then, that in 2017 experts projected video marketing would account for a full 80% of all web traffic by 2019?1 And video consumption is still on the rise. Cisco estimates video traffic will make up 82% of all consumer and business IP traffic by 2022.2 If you haven’t yet embraced video as part of your overall marketing strategy, now is the time. Also,