Media Series – Issue 3: Magazine Advertising

Iowa Print Advertising

Overview of Magazine Advertising Campaigns Since they are both print media, magazines share some characteristics with newspapers. A couple of the major differences between them are frequency (magazines are issued far less frequently) and paper/print quality (magazines offer the use of better quality paper and graphics). Magazine advertising is generally more oriented toward image and […]

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Media Series – Issue 2: Internet Advertising

Search Engine Marketing Le Claire Iowa

Overview of Internet Advertising For our second issue in the media series, we’re going to one of the newest options available to advertisers. The internet is relatively new to the advertising arena and is still pretty early in the evolutionary process. While some companies jumped on the internet bandwagon early, for most an internet advertising […]

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Media Series – Issue 1: Newspaper Advertising

Newspaper Advertising in Iowa

When it comes to advertising, lots of people are doing it and, unfortunately, many of them are doing it badly. As my father was fond of saying, people only read the instructions as a last resort when all else fails. My wife frequently edits this by limiting it to only men but that’s a story […]

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For Print Media, Size Does Matter

Illustration of How Size Matters with Attractive Woman

Did the title get your attention? Isn’t it amazing what some people will do to get you to read what they write? All kidding aside, in the design world size really does matter. Today we’ll focus on how you can use size to improve use and readership of your printed communications. Bigger Isn’t Always Better […]

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Your Strategy Isn’t What You Say It Is

Iowa Business Strategy In Action

About a decade ago, I had the good fortune to spend a couple weeks in Europe being drilled by professors from one of the world’s leading business schools in Switzerland. The school specializes in collaboration with businesses around the world and high-level corporate instruction for promising executives. The instructors surpassed anything in my experience from […]

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