By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. In this year of tighter budgets fanned by the fears of inflation a year ago, many marketers are turning to a traditional, but still-proven-to-work strategy as they head down the 2023 back stretch: Direct mail. “It might be hard to believe, but in a climate of reduced marketing […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Direct mail long has been a popular choice for a print-marketing campaign mix, and it apparently remains so — despite the pandemic-driven challenges that small businesses and marketers have faced this past year and a half. “Direct mail is growing exponentially,” says a woman who would know, Joy […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Does your marketing campaign need a kick in the number of responses you get from prospective customers? You may want to consider making direct mail a key force in that campaign — studies show that “snail mail” gets a better response rate than other marketing efforts, thanks in […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Newspapers and magazines, infamously known these days as “legacy publishers,” just can’t seem to catch a financial break during the digital age. They’ve tried paywalls as a way to get readers to subscribe to both digital as well as their print content; they, like others, face ad blocking […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Though its number of users should remain relatively stable over the next few years, Twitter is expected to generate $1.62 billion in ad revenues by the end of 2020, which will be a 22.8 percent increase over 2018’s revenues of $1.3 billion. What’s driving the surging revenues? Both […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Though the advent of the internet still causes many to predict doom for the world of print, marketers in recent years have proven such a prophecy to be what we might call, well, “fake news.” Rather, marketers have found that print marketing with its variety of tools — […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. With Christmas but three months away, now is the time to develop a multi-faceted, digital-marketing ad campaign that can ensure your business a happy 2019 — as well as put it in prime position for success in the 2020s and beyond. Whether your business is centered on business-to-consumer […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. If marketing at your small business consists of a few Facebook posts, a tweet here and there and perhaps an occasional promotion such as a prize giveaway, you may be taking too singular of an approach to creating awareness of your brand. It may well be time that […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Combining a video marketing campaign with search engine marketing recently provided immediate results for a Texas bank when Advertising Systems Inc. (ASI) went to bat for it. ASI developed a strategy for the bank that, in its first month, has seen the bank enjoy a 500-percent lift in […]
by Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. As the owner of a small business who wants to ramp up your marketing strategy, you’ve already tried the do-it-yourself route and found the complexities and time so overwhelming that you’ve added a marketing manager to your staff. However, that manager, you’ve realized, doesn’t really understand the path […]