A new restaurant is getting ready to open in Newport Beach. What’s all the excitement? Ooooh, they offer a variety of flatbreads! Now, in Scottsdale where the restaurant was launched, this likely is new to their dining options. But in Newport Beach? Please. Everyone has flatbread. Yes,...
Ever feel stumped when you’re in a meeting and someone says, “We should get on the top of the page for real estate on Google”? Well, here’s some information that will help you. And best of all, you won’t need to worry about filming a dog...
The recession is over according to the shoppers. Based on the famous line above from the 2006 movie, The Devil Wears Prada, the positive onslaught is about to hit and store-level retailers need to get ready. I’ve worked with shopping centers for long enough to know that...
Chipotle knows how to make its customers fall in love. Be it with food or with the brand itself, consumers just can’t get enough. From a marketing standpoint, this delicious giant of the food industry is also fantastic at making social media users fall in love. Recently,...
Competition between online retail sales and shopping center sales is a huge topic of discussion. However, there has been precious little discussion about the difference in the marketing budgets. Where did the shopping center budgets go? Historically, shopping centers had marketing budgets as a line item in their...
In need of a publicity crash course? Look no further. The team of media experts at Brower Group have assembled a quick list of tips for savvy professionals who want to amp up their publicity game. 1. Stop Using The Wire. It’s possible we’ll get hate email...
Ah, the elusive hashtag. We all saw Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake do it, and they made it seem effortless (and pretty funny). But the reality is, there’s a time, place and way to use hashtags to market your business – and it can be incredibly effective. It’s...
Finding local bloggers is a little more challenging than we marketing pros often think. When trying to find local bloggers, have you ever tried to Google - “Top bloggers in [insert city here].” (Come on – we all have!) And did you get a good list? In our...
A picture is worth a thousand words, or in Snapchat’s case $19 billion. According to a recent article in Bloomberg Business, the company, which launched in 2011, is raising funding that would place its valuation at nearly $19 billion. Yes, that’s right, in four short years,...
The Wall Street Journal recently wrote a nice story on Instagram’s role in real estate. This is an important topic, and it’s one that real estate marketers should note. While residential marketers have already jumped on the Instagram bandwagon, commercial real estate professionals have been slower to...
We’ve all heard the phrase, “the more the merrier,” but this happy-go-lucky strategy doesn’t always resonate well when it comes to delivering marketing that makes a difference. To some people, distributing content to the masses may sound like a good idea. “The more people I send...
The term “publicity stunt” is being tossed around quite a bit these days, especially in reference to the often crazy things we see celebrities doing. While many “stunts” are completed just for the sake of exposure, there are also plenty of companies who use these...
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Instagram has long been an ad-free environment for its users, but the inevitable has finally happened. The photo-based platform has opened the door for marketers to advertise to its 300+ million users. The movement is predicted to be a big moneymaker for businesses based on the platform’s...
We’ve all seen it – the flurry of photos and social media posts that accompany “National (insert theme here) Day.” A recent one that filled our social media feed was “National Siblings Day,” which had everyone posting photos of their siblings from yester-year, with messages of...