Want to be the apple of your talent’s eye? Check your Employer Brand! In today's talent market, even with recent hiring slowdowns, you can’t just “build it” and hope “they will come.” In other words, it's not enough to just post job listings and wait for qualified...
Thought Leadership
Storytelling with Product Videos: how to communicate both the brand and the product
You’re a start-up, a SaaS company, or any other type of tech org that has products, managed services, or infrastructure that can help your customers. Along with the normal volume of white papers, website updates, and webinars, current video content should be a...
Empathy in Action: How Creative Confidence Drives Our Process
#F4BookBytesOur team compresses the wisdom and actionable inspiration gleaned from a variety of professional and creative books into bite-sized chunks as they pertain to the business, marketing, and communication challenges our colleagues and clients face. There are a...
Authenticity in B2B Branding
Building trust and connections is crucial for B2B brands. We’ve all been throwing around the word “authenticity.” Maybe the word should be “trustability.” And whether or not your brand can achieve this begins with a question you—really, your company—has to ask...
Strategic Growth: Leveraging Traction in Marketing
#F4BookBytesOur team compresses the wisdom and actionable inspiration gleaned from a variety of professional and creative books into bite-sized chunks as they pertain to the business, marketing, and communication challenges our colleagues and clients face. At some...
Using Video for Recruiting
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,...
Maximizing Your Video Budget
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...
Master the DEMI Model for Marketing Success
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...
Why race to the bottom when you can climb to the top?
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
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...