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Decoding Branding Agencies: Secrets of Good vs. Bad

KEY TAKEAWAYS Understanding the Foundation: Good Branding Agencies The Art of Storytelling Uncovering Your Potential vs. Changing Who You Are Consistency is Key Unveiling the Pitfalls: Bad Branding…

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Business Marketing

Restaurant Marketing in the Pandemic

The pandemic isn’t over, and its effects may be felt for years to come. How should restaurants and other food-service providers prepare to succeed in a whole new…

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Business Culture

Shop Small Biz Gift Guide

Big things come from small businesses. KEY TAKEAWAYS Small businesses were hit hard this year; shop small this holiday season. Here is a list of some of our…

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Advertising Brand Design Business Culture

Let’s Talk About Spec, Baby!

Spec work: two words that strike fear into the hearts of creative agencies everywhere. Many promising engagements have been sullied by the last line of an RFP with…

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Advertising Brand Design Business Culture Marketing

Branding Beyond 2020: The Human Method

In today’s digital age, consumers can pretty much buy anything, at anytime, from anywhere. So what makes someone choose one brand over another? Furthemore, what keeps them coming…

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Business Culture

The Times That Define Us

Over the course of recent months, we at Tilted Chair—like many of you and probably most of the rest of the world—watched in awe as a pandemic swept…

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Advertising Business

Do I even need an agency?

Do I need an agency? It’s not a question we get a lot, at least not in those terms. But the issue of value is something that—at least…

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Advertising Brand Design Business Culture

A Hero’s Midlife Crisis

It’s easy to forget about yourself. If you’re a parent, you’re probably well-acquainted with that reality. In the service of so many others, self-care is something that’s regularly…

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Brand Design Business

How to be a Great Friend—and Brand

Branding. It’s a distinctly esoteric endeavor, generally marked by messaging pyramids, whiteboard sessions, and buzzwordy brainstorms. Nothing against these time-tested methods—we employ many of these exercises ourselves here…

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Advertising Business Marketing

3 Steps To Resurrecting A Dying Brand

Is your company stagnant? Are you losing customers? When people hear your brand name do they say “Oh, yeah, I remember that name”? If so, then you might…

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Advertising Business

The 3 Myths About Digital Immigrants

But first, who are digital immigrants? Digital immigrants are the counterpart of the digital native, a term used to describe people born after 1984 who have grown up…

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Business Marketing

Illuminating the Periphery

How the future of business belongs to those who invest in seismic innovation. In 2003, an upstart car company was founded in San Carlos, California. Named Tesla, the…

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Business

The Four Cs of Marketing

Do you remember Philip Kotler’s textbook Marketing Management? It was written in 1967, so if not, no worries. Kotler’s “Four P’s of Marketing” have been replicated in almost…

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Business Culture

We’re Not All Men

I remember asking my mom as a sophomore in high school what she wanted to be professionally when she was my age. To the sudden upset of my…

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Business

The Power of Writing It Down

We on-boarded a new art direction intern not long ago. Her first day represented a proverbial checklist of the usual orientation steps: find a desk, set up Dropbox…

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