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June 28, 2022

Five Questions an RFP Response Won’t Answer

  • Posted By : Adam Hoover/
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  • Under : Advertising, Brand Development, Digital and Web, Employee Engagement and Communications, Public Relations
4 minute read

Have you reached the point of needing to hire an agency? Or, perhaps you already have one, but feel the need to make a change? What do you do now? Conventional thinking might suggest an RFP is the right way to go to find a new agency partner. That’s one way, but not the only way, and it might not reveal what you hope or need, relative to potential partners.

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June 28, 2022

Stop Trying to Reason with Emotional Decision Makers

  • Posted By : Adam Hoover/
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  • Under : Advertising, Brand Development, Public Relations
2 minute read

The science behind decision making has come a long way in the past decade. Yet, for some reason, many marketers haven’t shifted their messaging strategies to address this simple fact:

Human decision making is based on emotion and not reason/rationality

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March 3, 2022

Three Ways to Escape the Buzzword Echo Chamber

  • Posted By : Katherine Coble, APR/
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  • Under : Advertising, Brand Development, Digital and Web, Employee Engagement and Communications, Public Relations
2 minute read

“Our goal is to create synergy that will help us pivot to new strategies when we utilize the talent of our right-sized organization while also finding quick wins.”

Wait, what? We’ve all read these things in internal memos or heard them come out of the mouths of leaders. And something happens when we hear these words and phrases used over and over – we check out. For me, I immediately start creating my grocery list or mentally reciting the lyrics to the last song I heard on my way into the office.

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February 23, 2022

5 Ways to Maximize Relationships Between Your In-house Team and Your Agency

  • Posted By : Adam Hoover/
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  • Under : Advertising, Brand Development, Public Relations
3 minute read

For the past few decades, we’ve seen the size and scope of our clients’ internal marketing teams ebb and flow. Some have even gone as far as branding their in-house teams to feel more like an agency. Regardless of the size of your internal marketing teams, there’s always a need for an outside perspective – an objective point of view that only an external agency partner can provide.

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November 23, 2021

Is Your Messaging Creating Speed Bumps?

  • Posted By : Adam Hoover/
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  • Under : Advertising, Brand Development, Public Relations
3 minute read

“We’re a category of one...”

“There’s nobody who does what we do, the way we do it...”

“We’re reinventing the market...”

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March 17, 2021

Seven Questions You Should Ask an Agency Before You Hire Them

  • Posted By : Adam Hoover/
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  • Under : Advertising, Brand Development, Digital and Web, Employee Engagement and Communications, Public Relations
5 minute read

Having worked for multiple agencies over the past two decades, I’ve seen many approaches and styles to winning new business. Knowing how important this decision is, and how difficult it can be to make, these key questions can help you choose the agency partner that is right for you.

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March 15, 2021

Disability Awareness Month: Resources to help YOU co-create a more inclusive community

  • Posted By : Dominique Gilmour/
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  • Under : Advertising, Brand Development, Digital and Web, Employee Engagement and Communications, Public Relations
2 minute read

People with disabilities make up the largest minority in the United States. One in four adults lives with some type of disability. I actually have a learning disability, so I understand the experience of growing up struggling and fighting to adapt to learning and work environments that don’t create a safe or accessible experience for the way my brain functions.

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October 14, 2020

Healthcare Communications During the COVID Crisis

  • Posted By : Whitney Ertel/
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  • Under : Crisis Management, Public Relations
2 minute read

The early days of COVID-19 were a frightening scramble for all, but nowhere more-so than the hospital and healthcare setting.

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August 24, 2020

Five Ways to Contribute to Equity Progress and Economic Recovery

  • Posted By : Meg Marra/
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  • Under : Public Relations
3 minute read

Indy leaders Tamara Cypress and Bob Schultz were problem solvers well before the pandemic hit, but the dual challenges of COVID-19 and the racial justice crisis put their skills into overdrive, resulting in the creation of two new powerful entities: Black Businesses Matter/Indy Accompliceship and the Downtown Indy Recovery Taskforce.

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August 10, 2020

How to Support Local News Media and Journalists in Times of Social Disruption

  • Posted By : Amy Hanna/
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  • Under : Public Relations
2 minute read

The news media has been one of the industries most challenged during the past few months. Pandemic-fueled newsroom layoffs, furlough weeks and frenzied, 24-hour news cycles, have overwhelmed the journalists that remain.

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