Your Checklist For Hiring A Full Service Creative Agency
You wouldn’t marry someone you didn’t know anything about. The same is true of hiring a full-service creative agency. Whether you’re a fledgling or established brand, hiring an agency can take your business to the next level. But before you swipe right, you’ve gotta...
The Ultimate Digital Marketing Guide
Few worlds change as rapidly as digital marketing. And with so many channels and platforms to put your message on, it’s tricky to find out how to move the needle for your business. Maybe you’ve trial-and-errored things: a little Facebook campaign here, a little print...
Is The Marketing Funnel Dead? Maybe. But It’s Going To Be Okay!
It's a question that pops up in marketers' minds far and wide at least a few times a year: is the marketing funnel, as we know it, dead? The digital revolution has transformed the buyer’s journey so profoundly that there’s no “typical” journey from awareness to...
Does Email Marketing Still Work in 2023?
Hook. Click. Convert. Email marketing spans brand types, audience demographics, and borders. For decades, it’s showcased the importance of a wide-reaching network and specialized messaging regarding brand awareness, loyalty, and longevity. But does this type of...
5 Digital Marketing Trends We’re Anticipating In 2023
The only thing constant about marketing is change. And for 2023, we've got the drop on the digital marketing trends you can look forward to in the new year. Things like live video, social media strategies, influencer marketing, and third-party tracking cookies are set...
Is A Buyer Persona Still A Useful Marketing Tool?
Meet Jane. She’s 20 years old, works out five days a week, eats a vegan diet, and shops sustainably. No, this isn’t Jane’s dating profile; it’s her buyer persona. And, for brands, having defined personas can be the difference between marketing that connects and...
Get More Out Of Your PPC Campaigns With a Google Certified Specialist
Pay-per-click or PPC campaigns are an effective way to get more eyes on your product or services. But how do you know that extra traffic will translate into more sales, not just an expensive bounce rate? An experienced Google Certified Specialist can ensure your ad...
5 Content Marketing Strategies to Drive Knockout SEO
In the world of marketing, content is currency. No, we’re not talking about cryptocurrency. Instead, it’s a sort of brand currency that can increase the value of your products and services. Whether you’re a habitual blogger or trying your hand at new methodologies...
The Top Calls-To-Action For Your Next High Conversion Landing Page
A call to action is the rallying cry of your brand. It can turn prospective customers casually browsing your website into loyal customers who return and share your brand with others. What could be better? But there is an art form to getting the call to action right...
Start 2023 On The Right Foot With an End-of-Year SEO Audit
As we near the end of another year, you probably have plenty on your plate. But make sure the end-of-year SEO audit doesn’t slide off your to-do list. This small but powerful tool allows you to assess your website’s performance, identify potential issues, and ensure...
AI In Marketing? How Bots And Automation Are Changing The Game.
Over the last few years, AI has played an increasingly important role in our daily lives. From voice-activated assistants who juggle our calendars to self-driving cars delivering pizzas, AI is transforming our world. And that’s easy to see when considering the role of...
Are There Benefits To Working with A Local Marketing Agency? Maybe.
Local knowledge matters. For example, knowing where the best car wash is, your favorite non-touristy spot to get a drink, or which secret parking spot to tuck into when it's bustling downtown. This is one advantage of knowing a place well. Likewise, location is...
Gen Z Marketing Trends That Are Shaping The Digital Landscape
The Wild Wild Web has a new sheriff in town: Gen Z. These Zoomers, as they’re known, are socially conscious, brand skeptical, and changing the digital landscape as we know it. If you’re disoriented, don’t worry. Implementing these Gen Z marketing trends authentically...
Top 3 PPC Marketing Services For Business Growth
You may or may not have noticed that marketing loves its acronyms – CTA, SEO, UI/UX, B2B, the list goes on. Pay-per-click, or PPC, may be just another acronym to memorize, but it's worth a deep dive if you're serious about growing your brand. At Savy, we've...
5 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Facebook Advertising Campaign
Picture this: you’ve just checked on your Facebook advertising campaign insights to see how it’s performing and…nothing. Nada. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah. You rethink the hours you spent agonizing over the right imagery, copy, and audience targeting. Where did you go wrong? If...
All Advertising Agencies Should Do These 5 Things Well
Overwhelmed by how to market your business on your own? You’re not alone! A great marketing plan starts with having a clear business strategy that works toward your unique goals. Whether you need pay-per-click advertising, SEO help, or social media content, here are a...
Surefire Signs That Your Business Needs A Google Ads Specialist
When you need answers to life’s most burning question, you likely don’t think to Ask Jeeves or turn to Bing. Instead, we Google it. In fact, the search engine is so monolithic that it’s estimated Google processes approximately 63,000 search queries every second. That...
Does Social Media Really Help You Rank Higher On Google? 3 Things To Know About Social Media & SEO
Let’s play a word association game. When I say sky, you might think blue. When I say drink, you might say coffee (or cocktail, if it’s getting close to Happy Hour). And when I say social media, you should think of SEO. Ok, maybe that last one isn’t so intuitive....
How to Discover Your Brand Voice and Why It Matters
You probably don't remember saying your first word. Maybe you've seen it on videotape, or maybe you've just heard the story approximately 500 times from family members about "the day you found your voice." When a brand finds its voice, it may not be cataloged in a...
Why You Should Focus on a Brand Strategy First and Content Strategy Second
It’s common to feel like you’re chasing walls in the business world. You launch a brand and a competitor pops up. You get ahead of them, and another brand you never thought was a threat comes up from behind with a version of your same product. Plenty of brands today...
Marketing Agencies Should Help You Work Smarter, Not Harder. Here’s What to Look for Before Hiring One.
Shopping online is a lot like shopping for a marketing agency. You spend hours poring over the different options until you think you've found the right one. And when you do, you immediately click buy! But, after waiting patiently (or impatiently, if we're being...
5 Reasons You Absolutely Need A Digital Marketing Strategy
As a person with no natural sense of direction, I never leave the house without my GPS. Even though I’ve lived in the same city for nearly ten years, I love the security of seeing every turn mapped out for me before I ever leave my driveway. And with good reason....
What Do The Top Marketing Agencies In The World Have In Common?
What do the top marketing agencies in the world have in common besides creative names, kick-ass portfolios, and caffeine addictions? Turns out, a whole lot. These top-tier agencies have decades of experience under their belts, but they also have a certain je ne sais...
6 Important Members of Your Full-Service Digital Marketing Team (And What You Can Expect From Each)
There are plenty of cliche movie tropes out there. Like the hero who walks calmly away from an explosion. The hardboiled detective who needs to solve “one last case” before retirement. Even the aliens landing and demanding “take me to your leader.” But there’s one...
5 Projects That Show the Scope of Our Brand Marketing Agency
You know the saying: “The customer is always right?” Well, in marketing we’d take that a step further and say: “The client always has the story." You know your brand on a deeper level. You understand your audience’s pain points and know which problems are the most...
Why There’s No Such Thing as the “Best Digital Marketing Agency”
There is a seemingly endless list of reasons you might consider working with a marketing agency. Maybe you're looking for help communicating with your growing customer base. Or, maybe you're hoping to identify the perfect market segment so you can break through the...
3 Brand-Building Methods That Digital Marketing Companies Rely On
Digital marketing companies are a little like construction and design firms. They spend years analyzing trends, practicing the latest building methods, and are a little picky about who they work with. And while all marketing agencies will differ in their approach,...
In a Digital-Forward World, Online Marketing Companies Just Make Sense
Imagine you’re a bird (bear with us). You’re flying along doing your migrational bird thing when, all of a sudden, you see a plane. You marvel at its shiny silver coat and its long, straight wings. Before you know it, it’s zoomed out of view. So, you stretch your...
Want To Connect With Your Audience In 2021? Focus On These Digital Marketing Channels
By now, most of us have heard of David Foster Wallace’s infamous commencement speech. As the story goes, two young fish are swimming along. They happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way. The older fish nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?”...
What Your Brand Is Made Of: Product Packaging Design That Gets Noticed
Your brand is made of hard work, late nights, and a fair amount of tears. Every product that goes out your door or is added to a virtual cart results from those things. And the product packaging design you choose will either give a great first impression or have your...
Are Digital Marketing Agencies Obsolete? The Case Against Most Digital Ad Firms
When the creative team behind Jurassic Park first proposed that computer animated graphics could replace stop-motion animation to bring a 16-foot tall T-Rex to life, most people—including Steven Spielberg—scoffed. At the time, computers were thought to be clunky, the...
What Is AdTech and How Do Agencies Use It To Leverage Brands?
Another day, another new marketing term. You may have heard “AdTech” floating around in brand discussions but might not know exactly what it means. Or what it could mean for your brand reach and impact. Lucky for you, this blog will answer those questions and more. ...
Keeping it Reels: Social Media Video Brings Your Brand to Life
How many times have you been mindlessly scrolling through the ‘Gram when a video stopped you in your tracks? You paused, reacted in some way (laugh, cried, sat awestruck at your desk), and maybe even saved the video for later. This, folks, is what you want your...
Why Savy Agency Has the Best Web Designers in Bend, OR
You wouldn’t hide your product behind eyesore displays and on broken racks, would you? So why would you hide your product or service behind the digital equivalent? Good web design can make or break a brand. And good web designers? Well, they can make or break an...
How the Best Digital Marketing Agencies Can Help Your Brand Grow
Let’s be real: there are hundreds of thousands of brands. Why should a customer choose yours? Because you offer something unique? Or because you’re mission-minded and changing the world? Or, maybe, because your product or service helps people live better lives? We see...
The Future of Marketing Is Inclusive: Why Audiences Care About Inclusive Brands
What would the world look like if brands tried to represent the people they market to more genuinely? It's a question that today's business and marketing leaders have set out to answer. By building more inclusive brands, supported by more inclusive marketing, we can...
Is the Future of UX Screenless? Savy Weighs in on UX Trends of 2021 and Beyond.
Thirty years ago, most of us couldn't have imagined a world where we’d walk around with tiny, high-speed computers in our pockets. Today, most of us can’t imagine a world without them. There’s no denying that mobile technology and smart devices have redefined how we...
Social Dilemmas: How Marketers Can Use Machine Learning For Good
If you saw Netflix’s The Social Dilemma, you understand why consumers and marketers alike were deleting social accounts and setting limits on their scrolling. Machine learning is a powerful tool but also a potentially destructive and hazardous one. With about...
iOS14, the End of Third-Party Cookies and First-Party Data’s Heyday
There’s no denying that the past year has changed how we interact with and to our customers. First, Google stopped allowing third-party data to be collected. Then Apple announced changes to iOS14's permission features for app builders. This one-two punch sent a lot of...
“Hey Siri –– What Are Voice to Text Tools for Marketers?”
It’s a trend that you may have first noticed in an older relative or a busy friend. Someone who may have trouble typing out with arthritic hands or may be balancing too many things to input a search. We’re, of course, talking about voice search. As a rising trend,...
The Golden Rules of Content Marketing in 2021
It’s a digital world, and we’re surrounded by content 24/7, 365. And, for the most part, this content helps us get shit done. We pause our doom scrolling to read an inspirational self-help post, hardly noticing that it’s promoted content. We watch video tutorials to...
Is Authentic Connection The Future of Brand Loyalty?
Loyalty programs that reward repeat business with point programs and other freebies are common. Whether it’s a “Buy-10-Get-1” punchard or a post-purchase discount code for your next shopping trip, they’ve blended seamlessly into our consumer lives. But can programs...
The Rapid Shift Killed Human-Centered Economics—Here’s How To Fix It
These days, just about every element of our lives exists in some form online. It's where we learn, work, socialize, and, yes, shop. But somewhere between landing on a site and clicking "Add to Cart," the shopping experience's human element gets lost. And if the...
How To Make User Experience Your Most Valuable Brand Asset
Think about the websites you visit regularly. The brands you support and the products you choose to keep around the house or the office. What do they all have in common? Our guess: they’ve figured out how to leverage the user experience to keep you coming back. Are...
4 Packaging Design Trends That Today’s Consumers Are So Ready For
Scrolling through Amazon or strolling down an actual aisle— packaging design affects our purchasing decisions. Packaging isn’t just a vehicle that gets products safely from store to home, it’s part of the product experience. And thoughtful packaging is one more...
Branding Agencies, 230, and Free Speech
Parler's recent shutdown shows how much free speech protections are in the hands of technology. On January 9, Apple and Google removed Parler from the App Store and Android's Marketplace. This move prevented new users from downloading the app. The following day,...
Move Over Wi-Fi. How the 5G Network Is Already Impacting the Digital Marketing Space
When you think of “the Cloud,” you might picture your documents, photos, and music floating around cyberspace waiting for you to access them from device to device. The 5G network is the latest wireless advancement that uses the Cloud to make things faster and easier...
The Future of Sales? Socially Distanced E-Commerce and Keeping Customers Safe
Click, scroll, buy, repeat. If that mantra seems to resonate with you and your consumer behaviors over most of 2020 (and now into 2021), then you already know a thing or two about e-commerce. But if you’re on the flip side of the shopping cart trying to create a...