R&A Marketing Brings On Hampton Furniture As Client
R&A Marketing is excited to welcome Hampton Furniture to our furniture advertising family and to the R&A Club. Hampton Furniture opened in 1931 in Anderson, SC. Located at 809 Whitehall Road, Hampton Furniture specializes in England furniture, offering one of the largest selections in the upstate – all at discount prices. Their showroom is a […]
Forgotten Advertising–The Press Release
Have you ever run a promotion that had to do with raising money for a charity or supported a local school? How did you advertise this? Did you think about writing a press release to get the word out? A press release or a news release is a written announcement directed at members of the […]
Five Ways To Increase Your Twitter Presence
1. Put Twitter info on your business cards and other print materials You don’t just have to promote your Twitter profile online, but you can do it offline as well. Put your Twitter info on all your print collateral. Just make sure you keep your Twitter page fresh by updating regularly. 2. Browse Twitter directories […]
4 Ways To Make Your Pinterest Posts Viral
Pinterest is becoming more and more popular and is a great way to spread your ideas as well as your blogs. With this, more and more Pinterest posts are becoming viral. A post goes viral by receiving anywhere from 1,00 to 35,00 pins. These posts can lead to new followers on your blog and higher […]
Quick-Fire Marketing: Product Placement Advertising
Today’s consumer is bombarded with advertising everywhere: television, radio, billboards, magazines, buses, newspapers, and the Internet… And these are just the usual media suspects. More and more ad space is popping up every day. From people walking down the street wearing signs, to flyers on our cars and in our mailboxes, to ads on the […]
Mobile Marketing Contests
So you’ve ran in store contest, Facebook contest, direct mail contest, and just about every other contest you can think of. Are contest starting to get the best of you? Are you running out of ideas? Have you tried running a mobile marketing contests? Whether you want to give away concert tickets, a car or […]
Measure Your Mobile Marketing
Smartphones have become extremely popular over the last decade to the point where most people have one. Because of this, advertisers have slowly been toying with the idea of mobile integration and mobile marketing campaigns, and in the past few years it has been really taking off. But how does a company track a mobile […]
Get into the consumers home and you win
Recently we just had a client increase their July and August traffic by 31% verses last year. Yes, that is right…31%. Why an increase in traffic?
We made a concentrated effort to get into the home of the consumer whether it was through print or online we wanted to make sure the consumer got the message in the comfort of their own home.
To promote or not to promote? That tis’ the question
In our dealings with retailers on a daily basis we are confronted with the conundrum that is “I don’t want to run a sale but I don’t want to lose a potential sale. Can you help us accomplish this?”
If we wanted to land every piece of business (temporarily) our answer would be “Yes, we most certainly can!” However, we would be misleading the notion that is an impossible outcome. So, our answer is, “Yes we can but you cannot afford to spend enough to out shine the noise of ‘sale, sale, sale’ that dominates the retail landscape”.
eCommerce or Die—Advertise to your site, then to your store
Life was easy back in the day, or at least, that is what I am told. I have only been actively engaged in this industry since 2008 and as you can imagine I have not seen the “easy days” of this industry. I have only seen the retail of today which can prove to be complicated, hard acquisition and slow growth.