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Keeping Up With Google: Coming Changes to Google Analytics

Apr 20, 2022 by Chad Coltman in Digital Marketing

Some of you may have heard about the upcoming changes to Google Analytics, and the company’s encouragement to upgrade to the latest version of their popular data platform. But, for those of you non-techies out there, what’s it all about? And what needs to be done to stay up-to-date?

Why You Should Consider Two Factor Authentication in 2022

Jan 11, 2022 by Chad Coltman

At the start of this new year, we’re all thinking about ways we can live better. New Year’s resolutions focused on reading more, eating better and getting to the gym motivate us to live healthier in the year ahead. And yet another area of our lives begs for a little bit of extra time and intention to help us live better in 2022, our digital life.

Top 5 Tactics To Implement ASAP in your Hubspot Marketing Automation

Sep 14, 2021 by Paul Bresenden in CEO Coaching

Whether you’ve had Hubspot up and running for the last few years, you just signed up last week, or you're thinking about leveraging a marketing automation platform, here are five of our favorite campaigns, workflows, and automations to turbocharge your marketing.

Work from Anywhere

Jul 15, 2021 by Chad Coltman

“Working from home” is no longer reserved for domestic jobs, the self-employed, or the big dreamers starting the next Apple Computers in their garages. Today, with the internet, laptop computers and cloud-based software, the opportunities for working from home--and anywhere else you’ve got wifi--are abundant. And of course, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated what was already happening in businesses around the globe, by moving workers from centralized offices to working from anywhere.

454 Creative’s Digital Audit Programs

Jun 21, 2021 by 454 Creative in Inside 454

Have you ever wondered why your company isn't ranking well in search results? Have you read about the lawsuits targeting companies whose websites weren't ADA compliant? Do you know if there is room for improvement on your paid digital ads? Questions like these can be answered with a range of Audit Programs offered by 454 Creative. From SEO to ADA compliance, our team of experts can look under the hood of your digital marketing and tell you where a tune-up might be needed.

4 Reasons to Choose an Agency, (and 3 Reasons not to!)

Jun 11, 2021 in CEO Coaching

Engaging with a results-driven marketing agency makes sense for a lot of reasons, but as an agency owner, I’ve taken a little bit of time to boil things down to our top 4.

Our Operating Principles

Apr 27, 2021 by Chad Coltman in Inside 454

As a company, we live to embody 3 simple principles in our culture: Make it Awesome, Make it Matter, Make it Happen. These statements shape our work and our relationships.

Nobody Likes Their Leads

Apr 14, 2021 by 454 Creative in Lean Marketing Institute

Are you happy with the quality of your leads? Do you have clarity on how to define a lead and what stage of the customer journey you're engaging with each lead at?

Making Sense of SEO

Feb 16, 2021 in Marketing Playbook

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) remains one of the top requests for digital marketing professionals today. I find the topic to be full of snake oil salesmanship, with countless hours and dollars invested in efforts that will never yield a semblance of return on investment. So what is SEO, what makes it effective and how do you properly execute a great SEO strategy?

The 4 Ps of Marketing

Nov 04, 2020 by Paul Bresenden in Lean Marketing Framework

Most marketing textbooks teach that marketing has four critical levers to articulate. These have become known as the 4Ps of marketing: product, pricing, placement, and promotion.

Defining the Marketing Role

Sep 28, 2020 by Paul Bresenden in Lean Marketing Institute

Just as organizations need different skillsets from executive leadership teams as the organization evolves, the expectations and authority of the marketing executive should continue to evolve as the organization scales and competitive environments change.