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April 05, 2021

Greatly Improve Your Marketing by Thinking Win-Win-Win

Updated 4/7/2021

In order to understand win-win-win, you must first understand win-win. It's a common philosophy but let's take a look at it from an agency standpoint.

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January 04, 2021

Lessons learned as a Creative Marketing Studio Owner

Everybody is busy. Especially business owners and managers. I have two partners, they are also very busy. However, we have learned together that taking the time particularly for any “hard” conversations is actually super-productive. We listen to [...]

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October 19, 2020

Why a Phone Call is Often Way Better than Email

Update 10/19/2020

Why is a picture worth a thousand words? Or similarly, as we like to say at Backflip, why is a video worth a thousand pictures?

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August 12, 2020

My Best Brainstorming Tricks & Tips

*UPDATE 8/12/20*
While this post was originally written to describe some tips for the group brainstorming process, it has occurred to me that a large portion of the brainstorming and creative I do is solo work - even more so now with Covid [...]
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September 17, 2019

The Art to The Out-Of-Office Email

Most people are in a great rush to get everything done at work and at home before leaving to go out of town. Don’t let them see you sweat! Take 5 extra minutes, or as long as it takes in your high stress situation, to crack yourself up with your own [...]

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August 19, 2019

The importance of a customer relationship tool

Remember to send Jenny a birthday card. Don’t forget to say thanks to Frank for the gift. It’s been four months since you hung out with Karen… it’s probably time to see how she’s doing.
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April 16, 2019

How to choose a Creative Marketing partner

If you're a marketing director or the owner of a company, you probably regularly think:

  • What are the best ideas for this years marketing efforts?
  • Who should we collaborate with to bring these ideas to life?  
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May 29, 2018

4 Steps to make you Great at Customer Service

Great customer service is provided by attentive, driven, dedicated and empathetic employees who naturally want to give clients a wonderful experience. It takes more work, and more time to be truly great in customer service. Here are 4 steps to make [...]

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May 17, 2018

3 Creative tricks to make a smaller budget project keep the high end/cinematic look

Let's just get the tired facts out of the way first shall we? Every client wants higher quality for lower budget. You'll always wish you had more equipment/crew/time no matter how big the production. And if you don't have a story worth telling, no [...]

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May 07, 2018

It's not scary: An introduction to millennial marketing

Look at these two in the picture above. They've got a scarf, a pug, fancy coffee mugs, and they're sitting on a plush wooden bench leaning on hip wood. What is even happening, and how can you reach them with your message.

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