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27 Oct 2021

SPICE Up Your Marketing Strategy this Fall

The cooler temperatures of autumn herald sweater weather and seasonal fall flavors in the coffee shops and grocery stores, but it should also encourage a review of your company’s autumn marketing strategy. It’s not too late in the year to try something new –something that will breathe new life into your marketing communications efforts. Then you can end the year with a strong profit margin and a clear direction as you head into 2022. We’ve developed a new way to […]

06 Oct 2021

The Personal Branding Checklist

Do you have a personal brand? If so, congratulations!  You have an invaluable marketing tool at your disposal! The next step is to make sure you are getting your money’s worth out of it. In other words, USE IT! Personal brands are about more than differentiating yourself from other thought leaders. Your personal brand is meant to help you position yourself as a thought leader, speaker, author, build brand equity, secure media opportunities and so much more. Your personal brand […]

19 May 2021

6 Tips for Marketing Success from JJR!

If you are new to the marketing world, you may not truly realize just how much goes on behind the scenes to successfully marketing a client. Today we want to change that. We believe that by being more informed about the marketing process, you can help your brand reach new levels of success. To help with this, we’re sharing JJR Marketing’s tips for creating successful campaigns and content based on our specialist’s best practices. 1 – Project Management Always have […]

21 Apr 2021

Time to Recharge!

Have you ever noticed when your phone gets to its final battery life things don’t seem to work as well as normal? You find yourself trying to dim the screen, mute notifications and more to save that remaining battery life? The same thing happens with our “internal” batteries! According to SelectHealth.org it is important that we not only recharge our cellphones to be sure they are working at their top performance, but that we do the same with our minds […]

24 Aug 2020

The 5 Types of Marketing – Part 5

Welcome back to our Email series, The 5 types of Marketing – short marketing tips and tricks to keep you on top of your marketing game! 5. Cause Marketing The last, but not least, coming in at number 5 – Cause marketing provides a key partnership with a nonprofit organization that yields opportunity to both the company and the nonprofit. Many companies come to us looking for these alliances and we love to make them and help with positive publicity […]

05 Aug 2020

The 5 Types of Marketing – Part 4

Welcome back to our Email series, The 5 types of Marketing – short marketing tips and tricks to keep you on top of your marketing game! 4. Innovative Marketing Coming in at number 4, we have innovative marketing! Innovation provides a disruptive marketing approach. It drives an unexpected, new perspective to existing marketing. Results may vary from immediate reaction to smoldering interest over a longer period of time. Clients have approached us for something innovative, and here are some ways […]

07 Jul 2020

Meet Juan Pablo, The Man Behind JJR’s Graphic Design Inspiration

By Jacqueline S. Ruiz   Today I’d like to introduce you to a special member of the team and the keeper of our graphic design inspiration, not to mention the love of my life. He’s the amazing designer that has helped grow JJR into one of the fastest-growing full-service marketing and public relations firms in the Chicagoland area….our Creative Director, Juan Pablo Ruiz (a.k.a., JP) The year JP joined the firm, we grew 56%, and mesmerized our clients at the […]

10 Jun 2020

The 5 Types of Marketing – Part 3

Welcome back to our Email series, The 5 types of Marketing – short marketing tips and tricks to keep you on top of your marketing game! 3. Time-Bound Marketing Welcome back to the Marketing Minute! We talked about Foundational Marketing, Executional marketing, and we are on to type 3! Time-bound marketing is, as it sounds, something that must be initiated and consumed within a particular window of time to be effective. Companies usually seek marketing help of this kind when […]

02 Jun 2020

How to Market Sensitively During the COVID-19 Pandemic

With the world locked down, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all in one way or another. For business owners, the result has been frightening, confusing, and at times, devastating, not just here in the United States, but all around the globe. When the pandemic hit, I began receiving phone calls from friends and colleagues who know me as a marketing expert. They were asking for advice on their businesses and what they could do to stay afloat and secure […]

12 May 2020

The 5 Types of Marketing – Part 2

Welcome back to our Email series, The 5 types of Marketing – short marketing tips and tricks to keep you on top of your marketing game! 2. Executional Marketing Executional marketing, is designed to provide regular communication with the captive and prospective audiences so that they ultimately begin to anticipate it. Any effort that keeps the client connected to their audience can be considered executional marketing. This is a very effective type of marketing because it continues to build an […]