Apr 19, 2018 | advertising, branding, portfolio, web
In Chicago, there are Special Service Areas (SSAs) throughout the city, streets that are economic thoroughfares in the neighborhood. SSAs are under local neighborhood organizations and provide services to business owners, like facade and building improvements and...
Apr 12, 2018 | advertising, branding, portfolio, web
The Rogers Park Business Alliance has a few different City of Chicago Special Service Areas (SSAs) under its purview, including SSA #43. SSA #43 includes a good portion of Devon Avenue (a busy east/west street in Chicago) and a part of Western Avenue (the city’s...
Apr 12, 2018 | Behind The Spark, Web Design, Marketing, Advertising, Identity, Photography, Behind the Spark, Neighborhood Marketing
The Rogers Park Business Alliance has a few different City of Chicago Special Service Areas (SSAs) under its purview, including SSA #43. SSA #43 includes a good portion of Devon Avenue (a busy east/west street in Chicago) and a part of Western Avenue (the city’s...
Apr 9, 2018 | Social Media, Advertising, #InspiredBy, Photography
Baseball is back! Today was supposed to be the opening day for Wrigley Field, but with the snow that fell this morning in Chicago, the Cubs decided to postpone the game, while the White Sox found a pretty ingenious way of dealing with the snow on their field to still...
Apr 3, 2018 | Web Design, Neighborhood Marketing
Neighborhoods rely on local businesses to bring in visitors and revenue to the area. Some businesses can do a great job of marketing and advertising their own company, but often it’s up to various neighborhood organizations to bring area businesses...
Mar 28, 2018 | Business Lessons, Inbound Marketing
With the new ruling affecting images and Twitter retweets, we thought it would be helpful to update and re-publish this post about plagiarism, first published in 2016. In a world of content marketing, when over 2 million new blog posts are being published every...
Mar 13, 2018 | Marketing, Business Lessons, Email Marketing
Most of the information below was found in HubSpot’s Create a GDPR Strategy Lesson, as well as other resources, all listed at the bottom of the post for your convenience. This post does not constitute as legal advice and you should always seek legal counsel to...
Mar 6, 2018 | Web Design, Marketing, Advertising
Last year, I wrote about the Oscar’s Best Picture debacle and what marketers could learn from it when thinking about communicating information in print or in digital: add signals of importance (like bold or italics), make it easy to interpret, give readers room...
