All Posts by 454 Creative

High fives are more than a slap of hands. They connote teamwork, accomplishment, and excitement. Here at 454 Creative, we like to give high fives to celebrate when our team members go above and beyond.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important regulation coming through the European Union that all organizations in the United States should be prepared for. With less than a month left until the deadline for compliance on May 25th, 2018, 454 Creative’s CEO, Paul Bresenden, has put together a video on transactional vs. promotional emails, data collection, and how GDPR affects your business directly.

We are always getting calls and emails from different people that are wanting to become referral sources. Unfortunately, these introductions pose as prospects and have been taking up more and more of our partners time. It seems to be a waste of time, rarely do they actually refer clients or the the people they refer are not a good fit for us. Keep your sales process from being hijacked by "potential" partnerships.

We often think of marketing and finance as being worlds apart from each other. While both hold essential business functions, marketing and finance can exist in parallel dimensions and seldom interact. However, this way of working is outdated, inefficient and painfully wasteful. The new paradigm of marketing is moving from communication and promotion into one of being a predictable driver of growth for the organization.

Many CEO's have an incredible obsession with learning. Our CEO, Paul Bresenden, is no exception. On average, PB reads a new book every week. Here are his “must-read” recommendations for 2018.

At the beginning of 2015, we began to feel like our existing logo was starting to look outdated and didn’t excite us as much as it used to. We wanted a change, but understood that having brand consistency and staying recognizable to our clients was essential to our business. So, instead of rolling out a completely new idea, we decided to perform a logo refresh.

Most organizations have a "hunker down and get stuff done" philosophy.  Here’s why sprints have HUGE advantages for your marketing team compared to a traditional "get it done" structure.

454 Creative is happy to announce that we have hired a new Account Manager, Christy Polek and promoted our very own designer, Tanya Dimapindan, to Art Director!

We believe every organization should run their marketing initiatives from a playbook.  One of the most powerful plays to run for existing customers (we also use it in the sales process once a proposal is sent) is an NPS survey process

Congratulations on making the first steps to implement Lean Marketing at your organization. We’ve put together this guide as a way to bring clarity to the operating principles and job function for the marketing team. However, these principles have broad benefit to the entire organization and should be implemented cohesively with the leadership team. Learn the system and execute with diligence. Occasionally, omitting a single step can invalidate the entire system