We decided to start a new feature on our blog where we share with the rest of our audience all the questions we get when speaking and working with small businesses. As a full service marketing agency, we get a wide variety of inquiries and many of them are the same. So we know other […]
Category: Strategic Planning
Soliciting the public for their creative feedback. It takes guts!
Feedback is great. It helps from both a personal and professional perspective for individuals and corporations to grow, develop and mature. Now one has to be prepared because feedback, whether it is requested or not, can be humbling. This is why the majority of individuals don’t ask for it. From a marketing agency perspective, we […]
Marketing Success: commitment, consistency and confidence
Most products and services in the marketplace aren’t groundbreaking and innovative. They are a commodity and “me too” concepts with very little differentiation between them. That is not to say that they can’t be successful. It will just take a bit more work to get there. Marketing and advertising works. I think we can agree […]
Incomplete marketing initiatives
Empathy. Frustration. Compassion. Annoyance. I think every marketing and advertising agency experiences these feelings when working with clients. In fact, any marketing agency that is worth anything must at some point feel personally connected with the work they are performing, so these emotions will inevitably appear. At times, I can become really frustrated with clients […]
Kay Jewelers-Starting to segment their messaging
Competing advertising agencies don’t always have the same opinions on strategy, tactics or creative. That is pretty common. However, some don’t see eye to eye at all. I have heard stories of marketing agencies that have been downright confrontational and abusive during the bidding process for a large account. I can understand the passion behind […]
Invoice Revenge
As a small business owner myself here in Denver, I have my hands in virtually every facet of my business. Not only do I participate in the advertising and marketing elements of creative, strategy and online, but I have to oversee accounting and invoicing, which isn’t something I really enjoy doing, to tell you the […]
Short-term thinking is detrimental
As a small business owner myself here in Denver, I have my hands in virtually every facet of my marketing agency. Not only do I participate in the marketing and advertising elements of creative, strategy and online, but I have to oversee accounting and invoicing, which isn’t something I really enjoy doing, to tell you […]
Working within budgets
Advertising agencies have a big task. Clients come to us with a certain expectation on how their marketing and advertising is going to look, communicate and most importantly, provide results. As a Denver advertising agency, Encite still has the same challenges as the rest of the industry. We aren’t too worried about providing measurable and […]
New Year’s Resolution
2012 has been a great year for Encite International. The marketing and advertising industry has seen a pretty good rebound from the Great Recession. Slowly but surely we are getting back to work levels not seen since 2007. As a Denver based advertising agency, we work with a wide variety of clients including many real […]
Emotional connection to your brand
Advertising and marketing agencies salivate over certain clients. At least, Encite does. Well, not literally. Certain clients’ products and services make it easier on marketing agencies because of their fundamental offerings. These offerings tend to be easy to connect to an emotion, and emotion is a great influencer of buyer behavior. Whether you are aware […]