Digital Disappointment: GoDaddy Superbowl Ad Grinds Gears

by Katie Coombs on February 3,2015

A David and Goliath story of Big Media Budget vs. The Biggest Hearts on Social Media… a tale of missed opportunity and disappointment.

 I have two callings in life: marketing and dog rescue.  After watching GoDaddy’s attempt at humor with their  initial Superbowl puppy blunder, I was angry.  I’ll spare you my heated opinions of puppy mills, how unsafe it  is to carry animals in the bed of a pickup truck and the fifty other “issues” I had with their commercial. We all know it  was bad. We all know why. 

How the Super Bowl dogs small business marketing

by Mike Coombs on February 2,2015

What connects small business marketing and Super Bowl ads?

Marketing for heart, humanity, and utility.

In the age of the internet and ubiquitous information, our messages must tug at heart strings or provide immediate usefulness, or we lose the customer to pages where they get what they really want and need: love, care, assurance, intelligence, humanity, and “usefulness”.

It affected Super Bowl ads this year, with commercials that focused on the joys of fatherhood, and expressions of love.

“More and more, brands are thinking very seriously about the role they play in life” said Jim Stengel, a business consultant who previously worked as chief marketing officer at Proctor & Gamble. “Call it purpose, ideals, mission… whatever, but it is a sweeping force in marketing departments and agencies”.

Really? I would argue the big old school advertisers are just catching up to the ...

Got 90 Seconds? Inbound Sales & Marketing Methodology Explained

by Katie Coombs on January 26,2015

Here’s the equation: Methodology + measurement = provable, sustainable return on investment.

Watch my quick, comprehensive explanation video, now!

 

Content creation creative strategy-Don't avoid the obvious!

by Mike Coombs on January 14,2015


Content marketing works very well for small and medium size business.

Content creation can be a huge win for marketing and selling, if it's really useful and relevant to prospective customers and it causes some kind of action from them. Here’s a video about some of how I think about it.  You could call it my "creative brief format”.