State of the Trades: Q4 2025 — The Year in Review

This quarter’s State of the Trades highlights three major themes from 2025: Skilled trade wages rose dramatically Employers demanded a more educated, tech-savvy workforce Immigration enforcement and tariffs reshaped wages, hiring, and regional job growth 1. Skilled...

The Modern Press Release

Join Matt Sonnhalter for a Marketing Minute and learn about the modern press release and how key elements make it a strong, effective communication tool.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

As the Thanksgiving weekend approaches, we’d like to say thanks to the many friends and clients we’ve had the good fortune to come in contact with over the years. We’re all running in several different directions all the time, and this time of year we need to slow...

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2016 Budgets: How Much are you Going to Spend on Social and Mobile Marketing?

Now that it’s time for budgeting for next year the question is where are you going to allocate your dollars? There’s always more opportunities than there is money to fund them.Social media- have you tried some efforts in it this past year? What were the results? What were managements expectations?
Mobile marketing- Has this been on your radar screen? do you have plans to be mobile friendly in 2016?

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Are You Using Videos to Connect with the Professional Tradesman?

Short videos are ideal for social media and for you to gain reach and shares. But in order to take full advantage of video, you need to have a strategy. Don’t make a video for the sake of a video. Make it a part of a bigger picture. Are they for branding or product focused? A series of how-to videos or instructional ones.

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Is Print Dead?

We’ve been hearing for years that print is “dead” and digital media reigns. However for B2T, print is still and important medium.

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