3 Optimizations That Link Content and SEO

Content marketing isn’t going away. That’s because content is not a stand-alone service or strategy. And in the digital sphere, content combines all other aspects of digital marketing into one cohesive strategy — a way to embrace the digital environment in all its complexity.

Posted Sep 14, 2016

How a Bank Can Grow Its Share of Wallet

It takes a lot of time and effort to acquire new customers, particularly in banking where it’s a hassle for people to move their money. You have to generate awareness of your brand, demonstrate why your products are better than competitors’, show how a better bank can improve customers’ lives and rely on bankers to gain (and keep) their trust.

Posted Sep 9, 2016

Increase Your Share of Wallet with the 2016 Healthcare Consumer

Shopping for healthcare can be a scary experience for patients, and for many, they are entrusting their lives to surgeons and other healthcare professionals. For this reason, healthcare organizations often have difficulty knowing the best ways to connect with potential patients, especially because HIPPA regulations must also be adhered to.

Posted Sep 7, 2016

Employee Spotlight: VI Associate Creative Director Aaron Cahill

He’s an award-winning designer at VI. He’s an acclaimed artist outside of VI. And he, Aaron Cahill, has comingled his passions to soon become an award-winning patron for his work on next month’s Plaza District Festival.

Posted Aug 31, 2016

VIth Sense: There's a Marketing Firm on Every Corner. Literally

My friend P.M. likes to remind people that nothing happens until someone makes a sale. True enough. That sets a lot of things in motion for the operations of a companyno matter what was sold. 

Posted Aug 31, 2016

Olympics TV Ratings Stumble Due to 2016 Consumer Behavior

I am a fan of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, so I am well versed in the art of avoiding spoilers. As technology grows and changes we must adapt – modern day media Darwinism. Unfortunately, for many Olympic viewers, they were not prepared for the growing trend in media coverage – NOTIFICATIONS (Spoil-ylmpics?)! Evil, evil notifications sent to your phone or pushed out on social media by local and national media to take away the joy and surprise of who would be taking home that Olympic gold.

Posted Aug 26, 2016

Welcoming Mixed and Virtual Reality as the Next Big Things in Marketing

I'm lucky enough to live during some of the most transformative periods in human history. When I was 10 years old, Atari introduced PONG to the world. People everywhere were amazed that you could play video games right on your TV! That same year, 1972, the first pay-TV network was launched: HBO. Thanks to HBO, cable TV would supplant over-the-air TV as the norm in just a few short years.

Posted Aug 23, 2016

The Culture and Tradition Lives on for VI's Friday Work Environment

Back in the 1960s, advertising agencies in New York began noticing a dip in employee productivity on Fridays during the summer months when the hot summer sun caused people to shift into weekend mode before the workweek was over.

Posted Aug 18, 2016

Data Driven Marketing: A Guide Through Website Analytics

As a digital marketer, the importance of constantly monitoring and analyzing website analytics is vital in order to understand website traffic and make recommendations and optimizations to improve a campaign’s performance.

Posted Aug 17, 2016

6 Ways Your Marketing Success Gets the Wrong Attribution

Napoleon Bonaparte, French political and military leader, once said “War is ninety percent information.” But, what if the information is wrong. Or formulated incorrectly?

Posted Aug 11, 2016

The Best in Creativity: Grand Prix Winners from the 2016 Cannes Lions

Imagine an event so inspiring, creative, innovative, wild, galvanizing and entertaining that if you won an award at said event, you’d be impassioned enough to melt your award, infuse it in ink and tattoo people with it.

That’s the Cannes Lions for ya.

Posted Aug 8, 2016

Branding: Sponsors With a Sporting Chance

I'm a purist: a sports fan who enjoys sports, but tolerates company brands and ads in appropriate places like the stadium wall, on TV commercials during a break in the action, and on the shoes worn by my athletic heroes.

Posted Aug 2, 2016