Tag Archive for: Rebecca Epperson

Is Bigger Always Better? Questions to Ask When Selecting Your Marketing Partner

We are often asked what separates our organization from a competitor. It’s a fair question and one that we ask of potential business partners as well. We’re a boutique marketing firm which means we are small in size, selective on the clients…
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Marketing Into – and Through – a Recession

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There has been much talk recently by academics, financial experts and politicians about a possible recession in the not-too-distance future. If you experienced the past recession and its impact on marketing dollars – or lack thereof – you…

Numbers Do Matter

As I was helping my 8-year-old daughter with her math homework earlier this week, she asked if numbers really mattered, no matter what she decided to grow up to do in life. I initially thought it was a delay tactic to stray away from the word…

Take the Time for a Mid-Year Marketing Checkup

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Each year around this time it happens.  We say to ourselves – and others – where did the time go? How could it possibly be halfway through the calendar year already. Yet it is. And here we are. At Chartwell Agency, this is the time of…

Storytelling: It’s Not Just for Books Anymore

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Once upon a time . . . It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . Call me Ishmael. The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. These words always introduce a…

We May Not Be Your Best-Fit Marketing Firm

We may not be the best marketing firm for you. Not expecting that statement from a CEO who seeks to continue to service clients and grow her firm, were you? Like all companies we seek to grow our revenue, but we won’t do it at the expense…

Distracted by Tech? Be Purposeful About Focus

With the New Year already in full swing, so, too, are the numerous invitations for networking lunches and dinners. It’s an expected part of any business person’s life to attend these events, and, at times, they can get monotonous. But they…
strategic planning

The Awesome Adventure of Planning for the Year Ahead

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Some of us relish this time of the year: strategic planning time. Like children anticipating and hoping for what may be under the tree on Christmas morning, we entrepreneurs look forward to the endless possibilities of the year ahead. For us,…
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Don’t Let Your Company’s Crisis Make You Run for Cover

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During the course of the past few weeks we’ve heard and viewed a lot of information about hurricanes. As a born and bred Midwesterner who lived in the south several years ago, when hurricanes and tropical storms devastated homes, I was intrigued…
Rebecca Epperson

When Promotions Go Un“Bear”ably Wrong

Even the best of ideas can go south sometimes. Rebecca Epperson offered her insight in a recent Money Inc blog about what to do when a promotion goes terribly wrong.