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Startup Work for You as a Disabled Parent

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  Here at Velocity Agency, we believe in careers for the disabled. We know that many people with disabilities face ableism and discrimination every day. We believe that if you dream big enough, you can achieve it! We are so lucky to have a special person on our team: Chase Treadway. Chase has faced many obstacles and still produces amazing results for us as our web designer. Learn more about his story and how his disability launched him into his digital marketing career here. This week, we would like to share an article from Patrick Young, the founder of AbleUSA. …

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Geofencing Marketing | More Than a Mouthful | Velocity Agency

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Geofencing marketing is the practice of using global positioning or radio frequency identification to define a geographic boundary, and it’s being utilized more than ever! This week, Burger King made headlines with their latest marketing campaign. Beginning on Tuesday, consumers can open a newly revamped Burger King app and venture within 600 feet of a McDonald’s location. This will trigger a deal within a geofence that allows them to order a whopper for one penny. Consumers are re-routed to the nearest Burger King location for pick up. This promotion has been named #WhopperDetour and will only run through December 12th. …

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All About Christmas Storytelling Marketing | Velocity

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Christmas Storytelling marketing is the most popular way to reach your audience during the Holidays. During the Holidays, it’s much more important to tap into the emotions of your audience rather than launch a exclusive sale. Save your sales and discounts for Black Friday and Cyber Monday every year. Christmas is about pulling heart strings and turning your customers into fans. Velocity Agency loves a good story, but that’s not the only reason why we utilize storytelling marketing. The Holidays are supposed to be fun where we feel happy and connected, but the holidays can also be lonely, stressful, disappointing. …

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How to Perfect Your Thanksgiving Marketing Plan

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Here at Velocity Agency, we are so excited for Thanksgiving! We have been planning our annual Thanksgiving potluck for a few weeks and our mouths are watering. However, even with food on our radar we are still hard at work helping brands revamp their marketing strategies! Here are some ways to get the most out of your Thanksgiving Marketing plan! Holiday E-Bast Sending personalized emails to your customers to thank them for doing business with you is a great way to market to your audience. It’s important to express your gratitude to your loyal clients and will inevitably keep their …

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Velocity Agency Has the Halloween Marketing Professionals!

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Are you looking for Halloween Marketing Professionals? Just last year, Americans spent a whopping 8.4 billion on Halloween. This is not news for corporations with brands spending millions of dollars every year on Halloween inspired marketing campaigns. The spooky season has become just as big as Christmas or the super bowl. Here at Velocity Agency, we love to come up with holiday-themed marketing campaigns and when it comes to inspiration, we look all around us. Here are six Halloween marketing campaigns that proved to be largely successful. Snickers: Horseless Headsman Snickers conquered Halloween with the famous horseless headsman concept. A …

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6 Second Video Ads

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How much could you communicate in 6 second video ads? The advertising industry is shifting, and less is more. The advertising industry is beginning to take a closer look at short-form content. If you have seen six second ads while scrolling through your social media, then you already know that these ads are generating lots of leads. These 6-second ads tell a brand’s story in a creatively challenging time frame. Many researchers have said that attention spans have shrunk, but that’s not necessarily true. Attention spans are actually adapting to different platforms. For example, people still are able to watch …

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Looking for a Web Designer in Metairie? Meet Marcy Hooper!

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Are you looking for a web designer in Metairie? Let us introduce you to Marcy Hooper!  Marcy has found her way back to Louisiana after living many different places including: Baton Rouge; Portland, Oregon; Iowa and Minneapolis. Marcy grew up wanting to be an artist and an archeologist and was a huge fan of Indiana Jones. After going to LSU for two years for Archaeology, she then found that her passion was in Digital Art. Marcy attended SLU and received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts for Digital Art and the rest was history. “I still like doing my own art. …

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The Harmon Brothers Effect

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Every so often, there comes an ad that is plain weird. As weird as it is, it resonates and more than likely you will remember the brand. The Harmon Brothers have crafted a genius marketing strategy that has revolutionized the use of viral videos to sell products. They are the masterminds behind Squatty Potty, PooPourri, and Purple Mattress. Here at Velocity Agency, we are not too proud to admit when other advertising agencies hit the bullseye with their marketing strategies. Velocity Agency is continually researching what advertisements miss the mark and what advertisements are sparking conversations, and we use that …

Successful Omnichannel Marketing

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Technology has become more critical to our day-to-day living, and the lines between what we are doing online and in real life have begun to blur. As human behaviors change, marketers need to react and pursue an omnichannel experience. Our omnichannel strategy at Velocity Agency can be described as a multi-channel approach to marketing, selling, and serving customers in a way that creates a cohesive customer experience no matter how or where a customer reaches out. The difference between this experience and a multi-channel experience comes down to the depth of the integration. A strategy can only be considered an …

The Best Ads of 2017

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2017 has been a tough year but a year of remarkable creativity and inspiration. The best advertisements of the year resonated well because of their challenging themes and unique angles. As we enter 2018, let us reflect on the best ads of 2017. Halo Top – “Eat The Ice Cream” The past few years, we all have been very interested in apocalyptic themes. From zombie movies, The Hunger Games book series that have been made into movies, and just plain creepy end of the world thematic elements in everything we are watching: we love the adrenaline rush. Halo Top produced …