25 Feb

4 Business and Life Lessons I Learned From Spelling Bees

By Libby Esterle, Senior Account Executive As part of a Cincinnati-based marketing and communications agency, writing is at the heart of what we do. It serves as the basis for almost everything – from new business proposals to strategic marketing plan development to press releases to website copy. So, not surprisingly, spelling is also a […]

11 Feb
29 Jan

How a Hashtag Deflated the New England Patriots’ Bill Belichick

By Kaity Dunn, Account Executive I don’t follow professional sports very closely, but this recent ABC News headline caught my attention: “#Flexball: The Unfortunate Hashtag That Appeared Behind Bill Belichick” In this article, the reporter writes that during a recent press conference, the New England Patriot’s head coach Bill Belichick was trying to address accusations […]

21 Jan

Searching Facebook

By Kasi Detmer, Account Associate Finally! Facebook has enabled the search bar with the ability to search for past posts. No more scrolling back through every single one of the last year’s posts, or trying to remember which album you saved a picture to while waiting for the 600 pictures to load so that you […]

15 Jan

Thoughts from A Serial Fan in Cincinnati

By Kaity Dunn, Account Associate For reasons I’m not ready to laugh about yet, I ended up spending twice as much time as I had originally planned traveling alone in the car last week – a total of about eight hours, instead of the anticipated four. However, I was not entirely upset about this, because the drive […]

7 Jan

6 Things I Learned About Sales and Marketing from a Cub Scout

By Erika Turan, APR, Senior Account Executive My son is a Cub Scout, and I’ve learned in his four years as a scout to simply not question his resolve when it comes to selling popcorn. Popcorn sales are a fall tradition for scouts. An overwhelming percentage of profits goes back to the neighborhood pack and […]

30 Dec
22 Dec

Winning the B2B Content Marketing Battle: Part 2

By Jimmy Caccamo, Account Associate In my last blog I discussed content marketing and how B2B companies have difficulty on the content marketing front. In order to produce great content marketing you need to set some goals. What do you wish to accomplish? Raise awareness, promote a new service, portray company culture, etc.? After you’ve […]

17 Dec

Winning the B2B Content Marketing Battle: Part 1

By Jimmy Caccamo, Account Associate I work at Rasor Marketing Communications, a Cincinnati marketing and communications firm. Content marketing presents itself in some form to us every day whether it is for a client or internally, so I’ve developed quite the relationship with it. Content marketing can be demanding, but there is a secret to […]

11 Dec

9 TV Shows You Should Start Watching

By Libby Esterle, Senior Account Executive Warning: May Contain Spoilers As you know by now, I have spent the past several years working for, what I consider to be, the BEST Cincinnati-based marketing and communications firm. And with 14 Blacksmith awards to our name, I don’t think I’m wrong! But, that is a blog for […]