Author: Pat Watters

Strategy Before Tactics: A Customer-Focused Marketing Approach

“I think we need a video.” Every day, agencies and in-house marketing teams have conversations with clients and colleagues that start with that statement. It’s not always a video. Sometimes it’s a podcast or an eBook. Sometimes, even in 2023, it’s a postcard. And sometimes it ends up being true. But it can be a…
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Kolbeco and Inlandesign Merge to Expand Regional Presence

Firm will operate under the Kolbeco name while incorporating Inland’slongstanding design legacy in the St. Louis region St. Louis, MO – Kolbeco, a brand media agency, has merged with graphic design firm Inlandesign, a move which not only expands the company’s presence in the St. Louis region but also delivers a greater depth of expertise…
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11 Signs You’ve Hired a Bad Marketing Company

It never feels good to make a bad decision. But do you know what feels worse? Realizing too late that you should have recognized the bad decision sooner. The Kolbeco team is comprised of marketing professionals with a diverse set of backgrounds. We’ve spent time on both the agency and client side of marketing relationships,…
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Taking Back Control of Your Content Marketing Strategy

Content Marketing Institute has a mantra they preach: “Don’t Build on Rented Land.” What exactly does that mean? It means you should never make a social media profile on a platform that you have no control over the centerpiece of your content marketing strategy. Why not? Because the future is unpredictable, and there’s no guarantee…
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Empathetic Marketing Cuts Through the Noise

Sometimes, our industry gets a bad rap. But we’ve kind of earned it. We’ve peddled such fallacies as certain soaps will make you more beautiful, certain candy bars are better at satiating hunger, and certain cigarettes provide better throat protection against irritation and cough. Seriously. That one’s real. But we’ve come a long way, haven’t…
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3 Ways to Improve Social Media Marketing That Nobody Is Talking About

Let’s just start with the bad news: there’s no magic bullet for social media marketing success. There, we’ve said it. Now let’s talk about one of the biggest reasons so many marketers are dissatisfied with the results they’re seeing from their social media marketing efforts today. We’re dedicating more resources, time, and attention to social…
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The Marketer’s Guide to Strategically Using Your CEO’s LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn is finally living up to the hype. Long billed as the ultimate professional network, it didn’t always feel that way. It felt more like a place people went to find a job. But little by little, LinkedIn has grown into a powerful communication tool for companies to show who they are and what they…
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What Marketers Can Learn from the Summer Olympics

With the closing ceremonies behind us, that’s a wrap for the 2021 (2020) Summer Olympic Games. There’s something special about this event. It brings the world together with athletes competing on behalf of their country and performing amazing physical feats they’ve trained their entire lives for, on the biggest international stage imaginable. Naturally, we’ve spent…
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Kolbeco Named to 2021 Best PR Firms List by St. Louis Small Business Monthly

Kolbeco has once again been named to St. Louis Small Business Monthly’s (SBM) list of the top PR firms in the region. Each year the magazine’s readers, which include founders, presidents, CEOs and top executives of privately held firms in the greater St. Louis area vote to identify the best PR firms. This is Kolbeco’s…
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How to Have a Big Impact with a Small Marketing Team

Whether you have 0 or 100 dedicated marketing employees, your marketing team is probably not as large as you think it needs to be. I am confident that’s true because it’s something we have heard from marketers in companies of all sizes. And to varying degrees, they’re probably all right. After all, the exponential growth…
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