It seems to be human nature to fall into routines, not just in our personal lives, but in our work lives too. So it’s easy to understand how many small businesses will head into a new year with the same basic marketing gameplans as the year before, using the familiar strategies and tools that have gotten them this far. Now imagine the sound of a football coach loudly blowing a…
You’re selling your house. You do all the improvement projects you put off for years. The grass is as green as it has ever been, and the inside as spotless as can be. Maybe you even leave out fresh-baked cookies before an open house to make a lasting impression. You want to present your home in the best light possible. Ready for prime time. Because appearances matter. With that in…
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called video a “megatrend” back in 2017, he matched his words with actions by “putting video first” across the company’s family of apps, which are among the world’s most used. Digital design platform Ceros shares Zuck’s view, offering this colorful take on things: “Video is eating the Internet. We’ve gone from text and images being the web’s dominant forms of content to videos being everywhere…
Put an iPad or other tablet in a child’s hands and — voila! Quiet contentment, sometimes for hours. There’s no mistaking the power of video to capture children’s imaginations. And if we’re honest, we know video has the ability to attract and hold our attention, too, especially considering the binge-watching phenomenon of the streaming age or just our old-fashioned love of movies and TV shows. It’s no wonder, then, that…
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: VCRs, cassette tapes, printed newspapers, and just three or four TV channels. Oh, wait. That was 1980. And while those “simpler days” may seem worlds away, they were actually right here in our own galaxy. Lightspeed ahead to the 2020s, and things have gotten a little more complicated. Live streaming. Thousands of channels and apps. Smart home devices. iPhones and Android. Even…