How much impact do marketers really have on business results? If your business or brand is stellar, does marketing really matter? We all know of a great restaurant that has a line out the door every night who has never done any advertising, or the local brand that everyone just goes there because. When...
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As companies and businesses enter the social space, things can be a little scary for them. They no longer have control of the message. Perhaps the establishment never had control, but if they couldn’t hear or see it, it must be so. This social media thing has changed all of that. Anyone in your company is now a publisher, and some...
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I had a couple of stark reminders this week about about why brands stop being who they started out to be. What made them great brands was how they behave, and the multitude of little things that they do differently than the guy across the street, that, over time creates significant separation. However, as businesses mature, and...
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One of our strengths at Urbane Media is Branding. Our ability to create and market the Brand of the businesses we represent. Some of the challenges that businesses have, which is typical of great brands is their ability to break away from the competition by creating uncontested market space that makes the competition irrelevant. Untapped market space demand creation of something new...
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Most businesses that get a new web site do not need a new web site. We see this time and again, even more so with the popularity of WordPress, which has allowed hucksters with little design background to become alleged graphic designers and web site developers. Not really Jasper. Building a new web site is a complete pain. The...
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Every now and again you get to see the fruits of your marketing actions. Our marketing world today revolves around “Sharing”, which in the digital world is akin to Word of Mouth Marketing. The trick is leveraging other people or businesses to help you spread your marketing message. One way that we have found...
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Do you have a mentor? If you are lucky enough to have one to help guide your career, or even just visit with every now and again, take advantage of that resource. I have done just that with my last employer, Jonathan Holtzman, Chairman at Village Green Companies. It may only be a breakfast meeting here or there...
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Craig’s List has been a double edged sword for apartment marketers since inception of the awkward classified listings service. On one hand the classified service is free, that said, successfully administering Craig’s List ads can become daunting for the already overworked site staff and it is far from “free” to keep up with the daily postings. Scaling the postings...
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We have been slow to react to the QR Code frenzy at the Urbane Lab. A QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) first designed for the automotive industry. More recently, the system has become popular outside of the industry due to its fast readability and comparatively large storage capacity. The code...
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Anyone that practices the art of apartment marketing and that leases apartments knows the winter months can be a little slow, and anything we can do to spur up some leasing traffic helps. We are big proponents on giving stuff away at the Urbane Lab, and encourage our clients to think about how can...
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