Our total immersion approach allows us to effectively manage the complexities of your business, your audience, and your message, with a wide range of tactical and technical proficiencies. Read the latest DeanHouston+ produced articles covering the latest marketing trends, strategies and best practices.
Content Marketing, Inspire, Social Media
Going Viral: The Power of Native Videos in Social Media
You’re scrolling through your social media feed, more than likely late at night when you should be sleeping. It’s the usual stuff: news updates, too many selfies, a wordy rant about something you don’t care enough to read, and of course, an oddly specific advertisement about something you mentioned to someone earlier in the day. […]
An “Abridged” Look into the B2B Content Evolution
B2B marketing changes just as much as anything else. Despite what you might think, that change did not slow throughout the pandemic. At the beginning of 2020, we thought the world would come to a grinding halt. While true for some aspects of life and business, this halt didn’t apply across the board. B2B marketing […]
Do Androids Dream of Creating Content?
Imagine a future where artificially intelligent robots can analyze and replicate human behavior so perfectly that the robots themselves begin to believe they are actually human. This advanced technology would eventually make humans question whether they themselves are not simply robots programmed to believe they are human. Pretty trippy, right? This is the dystopian future […]
Content Marketing, Inspire, Social Media
The Value of User-Generated Content
Content takes on many forms – text, photos, video, podcasts, advertisements, and even all the billboards you see along the highway. Social media is comprised of platforms that contain just about all these forms of content (even photos of those highway billboards), but there’s something else that businesses and brands are taking advantage of that […]
Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire, Web
How To Put Your Best SEO Foot Forward
If they search it, they will come. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) may have fallen out of the marketing buzzword spotlight since its heyday, but putting your best foot forward to climb the search results ladder is still valuable marketing. Here are some common tips and misconceptions we’ve seen when it comes to boosting your SEO: […]
Content Marketing, Inspire, Visual Marketing
The Value of Short-Form Video
In 1969, filmmaker Marv Newland made history when he created the short film Bambi Meets Godzilla. The little cartoon has become an all-time classic in animation, running before and after movies in theaters across the U.S. and Canada throughout the 1970s and 1980s, subsequently seeing wide distribution on home video and spawning several sequels. What […]
Interactive Content: A Must for Encouraging Brand Loyalty Through Content Marketing
Led Zeppelin was ahead of its time in a lot of ways. When they released their iconic concert film and soundtrack The Song Remains the Same in 1976, they probably just thought they came up with a clever, quasi-abstract title. Certainly, they had no aspirations that it might be a quasi-applicable marketing analogy one day. […]
Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire, Marketing Automation, Strategic Marketing
The Ballad of “Always On” Marketing Campaigns
When it comes to executing a marketing campaign, there’s not always a good time to pause, or to shoo away customer acquisition at any stage. Unlike traditional, linear marketing campaigns which tend to focus on awareness, the intent of an “always on” (also known as “evergreen”) campaign is continually optimized to build engagement and retention. […]
Content Marketing, Inspire, Visual Marketing
The Art of Visual Storytelling
Humans are storytellers. It’s in our DNA. From the earliest sketches on cave walls to the ultra-lifelike 3D digital effects of today, we’ve been using visuals to tell our tales for eons. And we always will. Art forms like writing, speaking, playing music, making videos, designing graphics, painting, drawing, and sculpting are all forms of […]
Content Marketing, Inspire, Social Media
The Value of Employee Advocacy
Are your employees or coworkers active on social media? For industrial companies, this activity might not seem too relevant. However, in-house promotion is a simple and effective way to support employee retention and boost your account’s reach on any platform. This engagement can include anything from liking content on the company page to sharing a […]
Content Marketing, Event Planning & Management, Inspire, Strategic Marketing
Marketing For A Cause
Business and consumer values evolve all the time. Recent studies have shown that more than 60% of consumers want to buy from brands that have a real purpose. This indicates that in today’s world, people tend to support companies that are active members of their communities, maintain good ethical standards, and exhibit social responsibility. Cause […]
Top Five INSPIRE Podcasts of 2021
This past year was both challenging and exhilarating in many ways. From launching new endeavors to rekindling past practices, 2021 was a year filled with many twists and turns for all of us at DeanHouson+. But the year also featured plenty of bright spots, like our newly revamped INSPIRE podcast series. Along the way, we […]