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Could Outsourcing Solve the Skills Gap?
June 26, 2017
A core challenge that successful agencies often face is how to balance growth with increasing payroll costs. The nature of creative businesses means a paradox has developed: recruitment is dependent on new client wins, yet to grow and retain clients, companies need spare workforce capacity. …
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Getting on the Same Page with Local Affiliates
June 05, 2017
So often, it can be painfully difficult to see eye-to-eye with your local marketing partners. The only thing they seem to care about is how fast they can get their materials delivered and how big their logo or phone number will be. Hardly seems like the right way to run a world-class brand—but the …
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7 Tips for Building Your Personal Brand
May 08, 2017
In today’s hyper-connected world, brand building is no longer limited to monitoring and actively nurturing the reputation of a product or organization. It’s become much more personal—in some instances, very personal.
Every tweet, status update, shared video, or tagged image helps paint an …
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Why Do We Call It Content Marketing?
April 24, 2017
Many companies today are experiencing a seismic disruption in the way they create products and get people to buy them. And for those of us in the in-house agency world, that seismic disruption is creating a ripple effect right down through our shops.
Disruption also creates opportunity, however. …
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Adding Flavor to Target
April 18, 2017
What happens when you combine moving-picture storytelling with a retail-brand behemoth? A whole lot of Flavor, that’s what! Flavor is one of the brands within Cutters Studios—a group that specializes in producing moving imagery through design, visual effects, compositing, and 2D and 3D animation. …
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Strengthening Marketing/Creative Alignment to Drive Revenue
February 20, 2017
Creative content is more valuable than ever—in fact, 71% of consumers say they’ll choose a product or service over its competitors because of good design. So it’s no wonder savvy business leaders are increasing investments in their in-house creative teams. But there’s a challenge. In today’s …
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The Latest in Package Design
January 17, 2017
Each year, the packaging design experts at The Dieline round up the best consumer product package designs and forecast the latest trends in their annual report. This year, we’re thrilled to share an exclusive preview of our findings with the IHAF community, specifically two emerging trends in …
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Efficiency through Mob Design (a.k.a. How Four People Worked Faster by Sharing One Computer)
November 28, 2016
Today most people have two or three computers. So why would anyone make four people work together on one computer? And, who would be insane enough to force two designers, one marketer, and one product manager to take turns using the same design software on that one computer?
The answer: a design …
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Making Our Way Through Change
November 21, 2016
Immediately following the recent presidential election, I found myself delivering a keynote presentation on Change at the IHAF conference—appropriately entitled, Ready or Not. My topic wound its way through the psychology of change reactions, Theory U and The Dark Night of the Soul (or what happens …
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Meet our 2016 Sponsors!
October 24, 2016
The IHAF Annual Conference & Awards Show is just around the corner. For months we’ve been planning this two-day event, from defining the theme and outlining the agenda to directing the details and prepping the presenters. As our biggest event of the year, the conference serves as an opportunity for …
