thought leadership

Let’s keep humans hiring humans. In the era of AI voiceovers, chatbots, and the race toward automation, what your brand really needs is some good ole HUMANIZATION. Gen-u-wine, real-life people, talking to real-life people. That’s right, if you’re a large tech company,...

So your CMO has laid down the law, and the CFO backs her up. You have your video budget, now go–work some miracles with it. You’re a VP of Marketing, Director of Brand, or the head of a marketing team, and you–– like everyone else–– have finite resources at your...

It’s fast, it’s easy to use, it’s the marketing tool of the next millennium! Okay, it’s not, and it isn’t even a real word. But here’s another axiom born in the fires of Fifteen4 that we think is pretty effective. It started as a quick way for us to remind our account...

We get it. Marketing budgets are shrinking. You've got pressure from your bosses to provide more with less. You’re probably tempted to choose vendors and initiate projects with a close eye on what it’s going to cost you in terms of dollars. But there are other ways...

Let’s talk about scope creep. It’s not the latest villain in a summer superhero movie, but it can be just as menacing to your projects. Scope creep happens when everybody THINKS they’ve agreed on what they wanted at the start of a project, but then, like that one...

More than an acronym, B.A.N.T. was a sales methodology originally developed by IBM to help their team prioritize leads and opportunities for the company. There are a ton of resources available on this method, but here’s the TL;DR version. Unless your target has...