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Outsourcing Your Marketing? 4 Things to Look For In An Agency Partner
By Jen Neumann on October 3, 2022

Here we are on the cusp of Q4, and my email is suddenly full of requests to meet with companies eager to outsource their marketing. More often than not, this happens in the wake of...

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How to Write a Marketing RFP
By Jen Neumann on September 22, 2022

You've just come from a meeting where you discussed the need for a new product launch/website/new logo/digital campaign/video, content marketing/or a relationship with a marketing agency...

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Don't Overlook These QR Code Best Practices
By Jen Neumann on August 4, 2022

In 2014, I wrote a blog that advised against using QR codes for business until they became native in everyone’s phone camera apps. In 2017, we published an updated blog about the...

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Overcoming Scotomas
By Jen Neumann on May 2, 2022

Here’s your new business word of the day: scotoma. Usually a medical term, a scotoma is a partial loss of vision—a blind spot in an otherwise normal visual field.

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2022 Predictions in Marketing & Tech
By Jen Neumann on January 26, 2022

Hello 2022! Looking back on trends from the past few years and talking with other marketing professionals and agency owners, I thought about some of the trends that showed up across this...

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Apple Just Called Bluff on "Email Open Rates"
By Jen Neumann on December 10, 2021

With recent changes to Apple’s privacy and security safeguards, those who relied on “Email Opens” as a key success metric are left holding a soggy bag of Thanksgiving leftovers.

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2021: Skip the Boring Holiday Card & Get Creative
By Jen Neumann on November 30, 2021

A few years ago, de Novo received a Halloween card from a company that shall remain nameless. At first I thought, "Great idea! We aren't into the holiday season yet, way to get out there...

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How Great Brands Lead with Mission & Values
By Jen Neumann on September 23, 2021

We have a saying around here: "Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room. "

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Shifting from “Post & Pray” to Nurturing a Workforce Pipeline
By Jen Neumann on July 16, 2021

If you would have told me in 2007 that the work we do at de Novo would be so heavily involved in human resources, I would have laughed, and maybe even said “No thanks!”

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Improve Your Tech Stack With a Platform Audit
By Jen Neumann on March 8, 2021

It happens every year at budget time. Our accountant hands me a list of software companies and asks, “Are we continuing all of these subscriptions next year?”

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