by Morgan McLintic | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog, Business, Digital Marketing, Marketing, PR
“These leads are junk.” It’s one of the most disheartening cries a marketer can hear from Sales, especially in a startup or scaleup where the quarterly revenue goals are always in focus. You’ve spent all this time developing a lead magnet, building a landing page,...
by Ashley Przybyla | Feb 14, 2024 | Blog, Business, Digital Marketing, Marketing, PR
For 364 days out of the year, commercials are an annoyance. On Super Bowl Sunday, they’re a cultural phenomenon. That’s why brands were happy to shell out roughly $7 million to get in front of 123 million people for 30 seconds during Super Bowl LVIII. Having a Super...
by Ashley Przybyla | Jan 29, 2024 | Blog, Digital Marketing, FiredUp!, Marketing, PR
Cavemen had rocks tied to sticks, the Mesopotamians had tools hand-forged from bronze, medieval knights had swords, Shakespeare had a quill pen, and we…well, we have just about everything else. And in a world dominated by digital, some of our tools are (almost) as...
by Kristina Leal and Theresa Carper | Jan 2, 2024 | Blog, Business, Digital Marketing, Marketing, PR
Welcome to the Firebrand Tech & Media Culture Awards 2023, where we’re taking a break from writing useful content to reflect on the chaos and trends that defined our little corner of the universe. To be clear, this isn’t exactly a year-end round-up (this is much...
by Lucy Allen | Dec 5, 2023 | Blog, Content, Marketing, PR
As a marketer, you’ve likely heard of the 12 brand archetypes and maybe even used them in your work. The premise came from Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s personality archetypes in the 1940s. Each Jungian archetype takes certain innate human...
by Morgan McLintic | Nov 15, 2023 | Blog, Business, Digital Marketing, Marketing, PR
It’s predictions time. Be warned, we underestimated the hype around GenAI last year. In fact, I called it a ‘non-factor’ alongside the metaverse when it comes to marketing. As a figleaf of defense, we got the substance correct: “AI copywriters might provide a path to...
