Effective email marketing is about serving your clients better. Team insight180 offers five data-backed tips to help you build an email strategy that performs well and still feels human. Read the blog to learn more.
Fun Finds: What We’re Loving in 2025!
This new year, we’re looking for things that inspire joy, hope, and creativity. Today we’re turning our creative eye to our own industry, and we have to say, we’re excited about the possibilities! Here are a few of the trends in design and marketing that inspire us.
How to Create Your 12-Month Social Media Calendar: A Step-by-Step Guide
Here's insight180's step-by-step guide on how to craft your own 12-month social media calendar tailored to your annual goals. Social media has become a cornerstone of B2B and nonprofit marketing strategies, yet creating content on the fly can feel overwhelming and lead to inconsistent posting. The 12-month social media calendar acts as a roadmap for strategic, organized, and impactful presence online.
Pausing to Reflect, Celebrate and Think Ahead
Taking time for reflection can help personal and professional growth. As you head into the new year, make time to pause and reflect on the past year, the lessons learned, wins achieved, and goals you'd like to continue to work towards. These prompts can help you get started.
When and Why to Refresh Your Logo
Throughout the 24 years we've been in business as a branding and design firm, we’ve seen many organizations refresh their brands with new websites, messaging, and logos. We’re no different. We’ve tweaked and refreshed the insight180 brand several times, as a way to commemorate a shift in focus or celebrate a new chapter for the business. Each time, we’ve approached the process similarly to the way we would advise our clients if they were considering a logo refresh. If you're considering refreshing your logo, read about when and why you may want to do this sooner than later.
Get to Know Your Audience: Leveraging Social Media Metrics for Smarter Posting
When was the last time you checked your social media metrics? Not just your company’s page, but your personal LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram pages? People want to engage with – and be inspired by – people, not companies. Allowing your audience to get to know you first helps them decide if they want to invest their time and money in your product or services. When done right, an active personal presence on social media can be an effective form of networking which can bring in leads and new clients for your business. So how do you know that what you are posting on your pages is resonating with those potential clients? Social media metrics. Read this blog post to learn more.
Five Steps for Strengthening Your Marketing Strategy
Whether you’re a small business striving for growth or a seasoned B2B company looking to stay ahead, reviewing and updating your marketing SOPs and Best Practices can make all the difference. Here are five essential steps to ensure your marketing efforts stay relevant, effective, and aligned with your business goals.
Sales Fear? Six Tips to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way
Your website looks great. You’ve spent a lot of time, energy, and resources to develop a wonderful, purpose-driven business that is making a positive impact in the world. You have a track record of helping those that you serve. You’ve developed a beautiful product. You’re ready to go. But when it comes to reaching out to your network, you freeze. What’s happening here?
How Community Can Enhance Your Business Presence on Social Media
Personal and professional connections can be powerful forces in promoting your business. People who know you, know what you do and believe in you can be your company’s greatest advocates. With more than two billion users across the globe, social media is one place that professionals, friends and family gather to stay in touch. If you’re not using social media for your business, you may be missing a big opportunity to connect with more people in your business community.
What Do the 2018 Facebook Updates Mean to You?
Throughout 2018, Facebook made some pretty big changes to their platform. The algorithm has been updated. Fake profiles have been removed. Profiles are better protected. All this to stop the spread of “fake news” and to make Facebook a social place to be, again.
Don’t Forget to Ask – 4 Sure-Fire Ways to Engage with Powerful Calls-to-Action
When creating a new website, or refreshing an existing one, most people remember to tackle the big things. Identifying groups of potential web visitors (customers, potential customers, donors, employees, investors, partners) and the information they’ll need. Designing an inviting and visitor-friendly layout with beautiful photos or graphics. Crafting compelling copy that tells visitors you “get” them – you know who they are, understand their needs and can help solve their challenges.
Yet few people remember this big thing: calls-to-action. A call-to-action (CTA) is text or image that invites, or “calls” visitors to take “action” or do something specific. The CTA can be for anything: register for a seminar, download a white paper, watch a video, donate money, learn more, etc.
Who is Ron Johnson and what is he doing to JCPenney?
At the beginning of this year, 110-year-old retailer, JCPenney began making changes to its brand in an effort to restore it’s integrity and transform the way shoppers feel about the experience of retail stores. Their aim is to get rid of the frustration and make shopping “simpler” and it is all part of a brand overhaul planned by Apple exec turned new JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson. Johnson plans to completely revamp JCPenney’s image by 2015 and his plan is to do that by taking big risks. Johnson draws his inspiration from his former boss, the late Steve Jobs. His new marketing strategy will all be about product, place, price, and promotion – the 4 P’s of marketing. But he will also add in presentation and personality to increase curiosity and interest in JCPenney.
Here is a short summary of how Johnson’s marketing strategy will work. Some of these plans have already been implemented but others are on their way.
1. Product: Same Quality, More Brands
