If you’ve got Netflix and you haven’t spent the past three months holed up in a cave in Siberia, it’s likely you’ve heard of Riverdale. Pegged as Gossip Girl-Meets-Twin Peaks (yeah, we would have labeled that an impossible Venn Diagram) this teen TV show has been hitting the headlines solidly for the past few weeks. […]
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September 26, 2016
With my coffee, I check the news on my iPad. After lunch, I take a quick peek at my Facebook or Instagram newsfeed, seeing what’s going on with my many “friends” (937 to be exact). My day marches on with small technology breaks here-and-there, grabbing a hot new recipe for dinner on Pinterest, and before […]
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September 2, 2016
Sometimes, an idea doesn’t work out as well in real life as you thought it would in your head. Let’s say that one morning in the shower you get the bright idea to attach a lawnmower to the back of your truck. You can’t afford a riding mower, but you realize that you do have […]
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You’ve created a beautiful website, check. You’ve compounded that with your beautiful product, double check. You’ve combined that with your kick ass social media generated traffic, triple ch…wait no, not triple check. If this is you not triple checking, it’s time to add a social media specialist to your digital marketing team. If you’re not […]
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May 13, 2016
All Is Fair in Love + Instagram Advertising
All day, I dream about chronology, said every Instagram user during the past couple of weeks. Brands flocked to the platform telling people to “turn on your notifications” like they were Brad Pitt in World War Z trying to stop the zombie apocalypse. Here’s a hint, the secret serum isn’t to turn on your notifications. […]
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April 15, 2016
Help, My Facebook Organic Reach has Fallen and It Can’t Get Up (and How To Improve That).
Help, My Facebook Organic Reach has Fallen and It Can’t Get Up (and How To Improve That). Much like Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother, Facebook’s organic visibility is a nostalgic element, reminiscent of happier times in which we create magic, reach, and fantasy without laying out money. Think of your newsfeed like the dress before the […]
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March 28, 2016
How Event Marketing can Build Your Business There are a number of elements that keep good businesses in business: good people, good profits, and good clientele. To maintain momentum (especially in a buyer’s market) you’ll sometimes find it necessary to up your game, but what options do you have when you feel you’ve done just […]
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March 2, 2016
At Swift Whale Creative we spend our days immersed in our customer’s vision, their goals, studying what drives them to be the best at who they are and what they deliver to their customer. Creating that perfect picture, that mesmerizing feeling that encompasses their passion and delivering that in the form of kick ass design […]
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December 7, 2015
Charlie Bit My Finger, David After Dentist, the Dos Equis guy – if these viral media posts all have one thing in common, it’s that you’ve probably seen them before. That’s because like the common cold, once a post goes viral it’s on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Youtube, Reddit, and just about everywhere else. So, imagine […]
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November 16, 2015
It may now be called UX or User Experience, but as soon as the internet was born, the need to understand how users interacted with it became very real. The likes of Google demand a positive user experience to ensure higher SEO rankings, while the customer demands to feel appreciated and enticed to engage. But […]