Thanksgiving & Marketing

With the Thanksgiving Holiday and football games approaching, you might ask yourself if your business has all the right players, on the right field, with the right equipment to win? With the right marketing strategy you can set your business up for successive wins. A marketing strategy refers to a business's overall game plan for reaching prospective consumers and turning them into customers of the products or services your business provides. Nye & Associates specializes in developing custom marketing strategies. We wish you a Happy Thanksgiving and to all our clients, successful marketing strategies.

Is your team eqipped with 21st Century Skills?

When working with clients of all sizes and from all sorts of industries, we like to ask: Is your team equipped with 21st Century Skills?

If your team doesn't have the right mix of:

• Critical thinking
• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Communication

Let Nye & Associates help you bring these skill sets to the table.

We use each of these in the marketing, advertising and PR work we do for our client's and we would like to work with you too!

Call us at 316.263.5878 or emails us at info@nyeandassociates.com to equip your team to succeed.

Doing It All?

To build a great business, you have to find great partners, because you can’t do it all.

While growing a business is exciting, you can find yourself needing outside marketing and strategic help. Marketing agencies are an aggregate of creativity, expertise, experience, and ideas. Using an agency ensures consistent engagement and elevation of your strategy as well as a consistency in campaigns, branding, voice and reporting. Over the last 40 years, Nye & Associates has gained knowledge and experience that will help you grow your business, using our Smarter Marketing TM process.

If you find that you can’t do it all, we would love to meet with you to see how a partnership with Nye & Associates could benefit your business. Contact us at 316-263-5878 or info@nyeandassociates.com.

Seven Signs It’s Time For A Rebrand

When was the last time you really looked at your brand? What about your logo and brand colors? Could you name the colors from your primary and secondary brand palettes?

Your brand has a huge impact on the perception customers have of your business. Your brand is not just the design of your logo or the colors and fonts associated with your brand's name, it's also about your message, your voice, and how your company acts. 

Most importantly, though, your brand effects your customer's perception of your company's values and it will affect how customers interact with you.

Here are the seven signs that its' time for a rebrand:


1. Your leads are less qualified.
This may be a sign that things need to change. If your target audience isn't engaging with your brand, it's because your brand isn't appealing to them.

2. Your traffic is dwindling. 
Nye & Associates looks at traffic stats month over month, quarter over quarter and year over year in order to capture trends and find patterns. If your traffic numbers are dwindling, this could be a sign that people are becoming less engaged with your brand. 

3. Your value proposition has changed.
Not every business stays on the same path from inception to present day. You may have changed directions or chosen a different path altogether. If so, does your website, brand and messaging reflect this?

4. You've updated or changed your products or services.
If you've completely changed the types of products or services you provide, you'll need to change your branding to reflect that. 

5. Your look is outdated.
Sometimes, your aesthetic may just be outdated. We've had several clients who realized they needed to modernize their brand after they'd begun to miss out on business opportunities they should have been qualified to get. 

6. Your message isn't well defined.
When a prospect or customer sees your logo or name, what you do should come to their minds right away. If it doesn't, if probably means your message isn't clear. This can cause confusion and hurt your ability to improve your brand awareness.

7. You will be undertaking a merger or acquisition.
If your company is merging with another business or buying another business, you may need to change your branding to incorporate whatever it is that they are bringing to the table. These changes are often one of the best times to recast your branding and bring a new sense of excitement to your employees and customers. 

A lot of effort is put into re-branding: Messaging, value propositions, style guides, logo design, color palettes, patterns, website, and social overhauls. It may seem overwhelming, but it may be worth it. Especially if your current brand is lagging in recognition and the ability to build awareness or trust. 

Not sure if your brand needs a refresh or not? Reach out to us and we can take a look! Call us at 316-263-5878 or email info@nyeandassociates.com.

Do you need an ad agency or a full time employee?

Here are things to consider:

1. Experience of one person versus a team of experienced professionals.
2. Budget: Retainer versus a yearly salary with insurance, vacation, sick leave and overtime.
3. Availability for marketing strategy is ready every day with an agency. An employee may be absent or on vacation when an immediate response is required.
4. Scalability: As your company grows, so should your marketing efforts. Agencies are well-equipped to scale along with your company. 

These considerations will increase your understanding of the value of hiring an agency, like Nye & Associates for your business.

If you’re interested in knowing what our agency can do for your company, let us know. We would love to meet with you! Call us at 316-263-5878 or email at info@nyeandassociates.com.