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Social Media Advertising: 5 Keys to Success

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How to win at social media advertising Social media advertising and digital marketing is not rocket science. But you should always have a strategy for reaching goals. It’s an integral part of growing your social media following and reaching a more engaged audience in the process. There are two ways that a page can grow: organic reach and paid boosts. If you manage your own Facebook page, you may see Facebook urge you to “boost”… Read more »

Online Conference Marketing for GSB

Online Conference Marketing

How We Did Non-profit Online Conference Marketing Businesses are seeing a need for online conference marketing in a new post-pandemic world. Fortunately, MCG’s marketing is ideal for businesses and non-profits. The novel coronavirus pandemic raged throughout the country in 2020. A longtime partner of ours, GSB, a non-profit fundraising organization, saw the need to reach its network of charitable and congregational leadership. This was a unique challenge for the organization. The word Zoom had changed… Read more »

Greetings from Aberdeen: A Social Contest

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We just wrapped up the ‘Greetings from Aberdeen’ mural contest that helped our town beat back the pandemic blues and unite in a fun and social activity. We recently started up a social media and online marketing service at McQuillen Creative, and this was a great first test for us. Troy McQuillen had a great idea to bring the town together through a public display of art. He was inspired by the old “Greetings from”… Read more »

Content Strategy: 4 Key Marketing Steps

Content Strategy for Social Media

Your content strategy is what separates your business from the pack. You should plan social media content ahead of time to succeed in online marketing. Less digitally savvy people have a common misconception about social media. They believe that social media posts are just created on a whim. However, that’s not the case, at least among the businesses and organizations that do social media the right way. Content strategists plan social media posts weeks and… Read more »

How to use Logos for Social Media: 3 Lessons

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Using Logos for Social Media Explained There are 3.6 billion people on social media platforms worldwide. It’s important to stand apart by including your company’s logo when you’re creating branded content for social media. Images can be shared widely across social media platforms or even on Emails. So a branded image is important for letting people know who made it. You should pay attention to how you use logos for social media such as using… Read more »

3 Rules for a Great Newsletter Campaign

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Newsletter Campaigns for the Uninitiated Before I joined McQuillen Creative Group, I started my career nearly a decade ago with a role creating email newsletter campaigns at a trade association in Washington, DC. A trade association, which was losing engagement with its members, hired me to boost its content delivery to its members. Through careful planning and strategic planning, we transformed the newsletters into a quick, digestible legislative brief. We then supplemented our policy newsletter… Read more »

McQuillen Creative Gives SPURS a FREE Website

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Non Profits Need Effective Websites. It’s almost unheard of now days to run into a company or organization that doesn’t have a website of any sorts. Usually a company will have a crude, late 1990s website or one they cobbled together on a free website platform. Or they have one that the boss’s nephew’s son created, but has since joined the Peace Corps. We were made aware of the fact that a local non-profit didn’t… Read more »

Is Your Local Marketing Difficult?

Local Marketing Made Easy

Advertising is Changing. Local Marketing is Different. You may be realizing that the way to market and advertise your business is a bit different these days. We have been in the marketing game for over 25 years, and we have striven to stay ahead of the game. Fortunately, our company gets how small businesses work. We’re not here to chew through your local marketing dollars. Instead, we are here to help you target local shoppers… Read more »