Dave Murrow

One of the biggest employers in the Phoenix area is growing its footprint in the market and adding more workers. Amazon is celebrating its 10th year in the Valley of fulfilling customer orders by announcing that it’s opening up a new center and overhauling its original Valley distribution location. In addition, the retail giant will add 1,000 new jobs at both locations. Those additional jobs will bring Amazon’s total number of full-time employees to about 7,000 workers at its four AZ-based fulfillment centers.

When you’re thinking of buying alcohol for a party or a weekend, where do you shop? Do you go to your local supermarket for your beer, wine and spirits? Or do you hit your nearest alcohol megastore, like Total Wine, Bevmo’s or similar? Perhaps you go to your favorite local liquor store like Tempe’s Tops Liquors or Sun Devil Liquors in Mesa, or to your convenient local liquor drive through store.

But have you ever thought of saving gas and time by not running around the city in your car or tru...

A new report from comScore notes that mobile phone use continues to grow. In fact, it’s now the leading digital platform—with more than 50% growth since 2013. T

Will Arizona start to see lower grocery prices in 2018? If so, you might be able to credit the Aldi lower price effect, if it takes hold here in the Phoenix market like it did in California.
The large German discount grocery retailer Aldi launched nearly 50 stores in California in 2017, and the ripple effect was astounding. Aldi’s lower prices across grocery categories led to a 3% overall price drop in other California’s stores’ prices for basic grocery goods.

Content creation is at an all-time high. At the time of this writing, there are some 2.8 million blog posts being created daily (per Worldometers). Brands, marketers, preachers, self-help gurus and your neighbor down the street are all creating content these days. Blog posts about everything from favorite recipes to travel tips, golf swing lessons to salvation messages and more.

Even though Phoenix is in the Sonoran Desert, there are still plenty of homes built around man-made lakes in the surrounding cities and towns that offer homebuyers a splendid waterfront neighborhood. Let’s take a look at a few.

On the internet, video rules. If you're a small, medium or large business, and you're not yet using video, it's time to start!
Video content is currently the fastest-growing form of marketing, and it can help companies attract bigger audiences, generate qualified leads and close more deals. It's growing even faster than digital TV advertising, according to Magisto, a leader in video editing and video marketing software. The company expects revenues for U.S.-based digital video marketing to re...

Knowing how and where to distribute content is crucial to marketing success. Social media helps, but delivering content via earned media and video directories are important too. These are the must-use content distribution methods.

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is putting increased marketing of its guitars and amplifiers towards young women. The Scottsdale, AZ-based Fender found that in recent studies, women made up about half of its new guitar buyers. But rather than buying guitars in a physical guitar outlet store, these women were buying their Fender guitars online.

Many SMBs learn from previous years about what works and what doesn’t for holiday social media marketing, and then tailor plans accordingly for the current year. But instead of just replicating last year’s marketing ideas with a new spin, why not try to look to experiment with new ideas, new advertising platforms, and social media marketing on new networks?

Which Content Marketing Tactician Are You?

Promote your business by using social media, SEO, relevant keywords, and e-commerce to help grow your revenues in just a few short months.

It's time to learn about Snapchat, understand its nuances, and bring a brand’s content marketing in video, text, images and audio to a variety of demographics.

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