Four States Small Business Blog

The holiday season is a prime opportunity for businesses to enhance their visibility and drive sales. With consumers eager to find the perfect gifts, it's crucial to implement effective marketing strategies that resonate with the festive spirit. Here are five innovative ideas to promote your products and services during this bustling time of year.

Topics: Advertising Creative

 

Topics: Radio Advertising, Advertising Creative

Have you ever found yourself belting out the lyrics to a commercial while cruising down the highway? Or maybe you've started a spontaneous sing-along with friends because of a song that's stuck in your head? That's the magic of jingles—catchy melodies with a lasting impact.

Topics: Radio Advertising, Advertising Creative, Advertising, Branding

Zimmer Marketing had an excellent year at the 2023 Missouri Broadcasting Association Awards, held June 3-4 in Osage Beach. Combined, Zimmer Marketing's radio stations earned five first place wins and two certificates of merit, including two complete category sweeps! Here's how we performed in the following categories:

Topics: Radio Advertising, Joplin Market, Advertising Creative, Team Zimmer, Advertising, Company Culture

Topics: Advertising Creative, Branding

If you’ve seen one of Peyton Manning’s commercials for Nationwide Insurance, you’ll immediately understand the impact a jingle has on your audience. Nationwide’s jingle is catchy, creative, and above all, gets stuck in your head. In fact, it’s been memorable since 1977, and in more recent years, the jingle has evolved for newer audiences, adding elements of authenticity with its Songs for All Our Sides campaign. Perhaps most importantly, it makes it easy for the listener to never confuse Nationwide with a competitor like State Farm, which also features its own jingle dating back to the 1970’s.

Topics: Advertising Creative, Jingles

One of the hardest lessons to learn in marketing is that building a brand takes time. While some lucky brands get struck by advertising lightning — e.g., TOMS, which first made headlines when it was barely a company, nearly tripling orders in one day and sparking even more news coverage thanks to its core cause — most companies have to work hard to carve out a place in their market. Even major brands, like beverage powerhouse Coca-Cola, have to build their momentum over time.

Topics: Marketing Strategy, Advertising Creative, BrandsFormation

Winter is a great time to attract new patients to your practice. People tend to become more mindful of health issues in the winter because of concerns about the flu and the increase in colds. Your brand can stand out from the competition by letting people know you care about them and that your practice wants to help them and their families stay healthy during cold weather. In this post, we’ve put together 4 tips to help you reach new patients with your marketing for winter.

Topics: Marketing Strategy, Advertising Creative, Health/Medical

Instead of just buying a product, most people actually buy what those products or services can do for them—what the product or services promise the customer. So, it’s important for businesses to always highlight the promises (or benefits) of their products.

Topics: Marketing Strategy, Advertising Creative

You’re all geared up and excited to finally be putting together your new marketing campaign. You’re full of great ideas—words, phrases, and slogans that you’ve heard others use, so you know they’re attention-grabbers. But is using the tried and true the best choice? Or could it be getting a little (or a lot) tried and true…and tired?

Topics: Consumer Behavior, Advertising Creative