There is no hard and fast rule when it comes to the lifespan of a typical website. If you Google, you’ll get a page-worth of answers ranging from 2 to 2.5 years. It seems a tad quick, even for the internet. But to be fair, a website revamp depends on your site and your market. When looking at typical B2B websites, you could probably double or even triple that number. That gets you in the range of every 5 to 7 years to consider an entire website refresh. This includes significant site structure updates like reorganizing your services categories or READ MORE >>
I read a recent Gartner report that proposed the new role for B2B sales teams was “sense-making”. Their research indicated 44% of millennials did not want to interact with a sales rep at any phase of their B2B buyer’s journey. That means B2B sales pros must reinvent their role. Gartner proposed their best way to service prospects was to make sense of all the content we marketers have been producing for years now. This is an interesting concept for sure. But shouldn’t we marketers be helping to make sense throughout the buyer’s journey as well? We already know B2B buying READ MORE >>
I know. We should have told you. You may not have even noticed. But we took a break during the second half of 2022 – from social, from blogging, from everything involved with our own marketing. Why? I can blame it on “busy”. I can say we concentrated on clients’ projects instead of our own. I can justify it as “research” on what happens when you stop marketing. And all that is true. But equally true is that we were short-staffed, still working out the kinks in our “new normal”, and more often than we liked, we were feeling drained, READ MORE >>
Summer is here and in full bloom! Nature’s beauty is full of colors that can spark the imagination. With that in mind we asked our BOLD designers what colors are inspiring them right now. Here are their thoughts: Mars’s Pick… The color I chose is the 2022 Pantone color of the year which they call “Very Peri”. It’s not my favorite color, but I’m always fascinated by the colors they choose for each year. I haven’t used this except for a couple personal projects but now I can use it for this. Rebecca’s Pick… Both of these color combinations READ MORE >>
We have big, BOLD news – our team has grown! That’s right, we’ve added another brilliant mind to the ODEA team and we’re so excited for you to get to know her. And depending on how long you’ve been part of the ODEA family, you might just recognize her. Without further ado, meet Emily Wade! You look familiar. Have we seen you around here before? You may have seen me if your team worked with ODEA a little over 5 years ago! I am so happy to be working with Patty and the ODEA-ites again! I started out at ODEA READ MORE >>
If you haven’t noticed, we love technology. In our marketing lives and in our personal lives, technology simplifies life, entertains us, helps us stay organized, inspires us, and the list goes on. On any given day, an ODEA-ite is dropping a new gadget or gizmo into our ‘Creative’ Slack channel for us all to ooh and ahh over. But there are still moments when we’re in a technology pinch and think, “Somebody needs to invent that!” So, without further ado, here’s our list of technology we wish existed. (And if you feel inspired to invent any of the following, you READ MORE >>
Sniff, sniff.. Is that Spring we smell?? (If you are in our neck of the woods don’t let those April snow showers fool you, Spring has indeed sprung!) Time to get out the marketing Swiffer and clean up some habits. Now is the perfect time to do a bit of marketing housekeeping. Here is ODEA’s spring cleaning to-do list for 2022: Commence Content Creation If 2022 is the year you pledged to overhaul your website or make that brand video you have been dreaming of, you need to get started NOW! Supply chain issues aren’t confined to hard goods. Web READ MORE >>
Marketing is both an art and a science. That is why we find buyer research invaluable here at ODEA. The way people consume content is ever-changing, so all ODEA-ites are ever-learning. Since we get to work with clients across a wide range of industries, we need to review a lot of diverse research regarding trends and buying behaviors. Here are six of the stats that are informing our thinking right now. 70% of Global GDP is now under net zero targets. The concept of net zero has become mainstream. No matter if your venture is B2B or B2C, your consumers READ MORE >>
Why would a marketing firm become a member of a global non-profit whose vision is to maximize steel’s contribution to a sustainable society? Because it is the right thing to do. If you know us ODEA-ites, you know we love to geek out about industries others often consider dull, like steel. We are proud to say we’ve had a steel client, or a few, on our roster for as long as we’ve been in business. We also wholeheartedly support organizations that emphasize the importance of ESG (environment, social and governance) pillars, which we believe are the lens consumers now use READ MORE >>