Summer is the season for beach trips, vacations, picnics, barbecues, and outdoor activities galore. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, everyone is looking for any opportunity to kick back and...
Integrated Marketing Monthly Roundup
June Industry News Roundup
The first month of summer brought along some blockbuster deals and interesting new releases in the realm of digital marketing, social media, and business in general. In case you’ve missed...
Social Media Personas | Reality vs. Online Identities
In recent years, social media has impacted the way in which users communicate with their friends, family, colleagues, as well as how they communicate with people they have never met...
Defining Data Science
Almost everything we do today involves data, but what do we do with all of it? From Facebook likes and Twitter mentions to Google Maps and fitness trackers and even...
Nostalgia Marketing: Dairy Queen’s #MissionMixtape Campaign
From the success of Netflix’s Stranger Things to the cultural phenomenon of Pokémon Go, it’s never been more obvious that nostalgia sells. Emotion-based marketing campaigns are particularly successful with the...
Integrated Marketing Monthly Roundup
April Digital Marketing News Roundup
“You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been.” – Maya Angelou. For the month of April, our team took a look at the...
Exploring the History of SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the many marketing terms thrown around regularly as a “need-to-have” for your website, but what is it really? Why is it so necessary?...
Is PR Dead? Our Team Investigates
Ok, don’t freak out. PR isn’t dead (we have the awards to prove it), but a strict media-relations strategy is not as effective as it once was. Relying solely on...
Integrated Marketing Monthly Roundup
March Digital Marketing News Roundup
Spring has finally arrived and it was a jam-packed month here at lotus823! As the outside world was in full bloom our team was sharing tips for how you can...
Everything You Missed at the 2017 International Home + Housewares Show
Our team just wrapped up a whirlwind week at the International Home + Housewares Show (IH+HS) in Chicago. IH+HS is hosted each year by the International Housewares Association and has...