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Anna-Marie Montague

Anna-Marie Montague
Senior Writer/Strategist

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Effective Social Strategy for a Challenging Digital Environment: Part I

While social media is always dynamic and ever evolving, 2022 brought dramatic shifts and activity that moved the discussion beyond audience trends and ad ascendency into the territory of trust, legality, and financial viability.

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Marketing Through Economic Angst: Uncertainty Is Business as Usual

The headlines swing like a pendulum of doomsaying, driving businesses to the brink of a pit of despair.

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How Are You Preparing for Your End of Year Goals?

Summer is a great time to assess year-to-date progress on your marketing goals— honing your strategy, tactics, and metrics to finish the year strong. This year, for many organizations, it’s also a pivotal time to demonstrate client value and organizational ROI from your marketing program.

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Building a Higher Education Brand that Connects

Be Appealing, Distinctive – and, Above All, Authentic

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Government

How Government Agencies Can Improve Their Recruiting Efforts

Solid branding, prescient audience analysis, and keen outreach strategy are all essential to impactful recruiting. But effective content is key to touching and moving candidates to action.

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Digital Announcement

Four Avoidable Website Mistakes

The communications foundation and engine for marketing efforts. An essential consumer/member/stakeholder touchpoint. A major organizational investment. A key embodiment of a brand. A transactional powerhouse for sales and services. An organization’s website is all this and more, providing myriad good reasons to optimize its ROI through astute strategy and planning.

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Branding Healthcare Announcement

Branding Healthcare in the Age of Consumerism

Healthcare branding has long been challenging. It’s hard to posit distinctive differentiators in an abundance of markets: how many ways can you evoke quality, innovation, or compassion? Now, branding is complicated by a seismic shift in consumer perspective.

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