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What’s the most relevant brand in your life?
Are there any brands you just can’t live without? Brands that make your world a better place because they seem to understand what you want and consistently deliver the experiences you crave?

Grill the Arsonist: Meet Jennifer
This month we are grilling one of our newer Arsonists, Jennifer Sautter! Jen is a seasoned vet when it comes to agency work. She’s been in the field for many years and is a pro at identifying the marketing tactics to fire up your brand. Can she stand the heat to be grilled??

The emotional stages of getting your marketing budget approved – a GIF guide
It’s budgeting season – a time that makes us marketers buzz with excitement at the prospect of bigger and better marketing initiatives while simultaneously cringing in fear of endless meetings and “but-it’s-worth-it” conversations. Amiright?

Minimize the risk of rebranding
Rebranding. Does that word make you a little anxious? If you’re thinking about evolving your company or organization’s brand you’re probably facing a variety of emotions, both positive and negative.

The best brands are simple: Revisited
Simple brand ideas result in powerful and memorable branding that people immediately connect with. Those ideas have to make it clear that the brand is different and relevant to their needs.

Grill the Arsonist: Meet Kristin
We convinced Kristin she was destined to become an Arsonist about three years ago. Shortly after, she and her husband packed their bags, loaded up their two fur babies and headed to the Quad Cities!

Leslie Jones and the story of NBC’s real-time marketing success
In today’s digital branding world, speed and agility are decisive competitive advantages. Being able to recognize a marketing opportunity and being able to act on that opportunity quickly can become a game changer for your brand.

MindFire makes Inc. 5000 list for 4th time
For the 4th year in a row, MindFire Communications has been listed on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

Measuring marketing success – three articles to get you started
In marketing, defining success is a critical component to any campaign. And while it’s easy to ask the question, coming up with an answer can often feel like convincing a posse of teenagers to give up their cell phones for a day. (Translation – it’s hard. Real hard!)

Heed the dangers of tone-deaf marketing
The world of social media has led to some pretty amazing interactive campaigns. (See here, here and here for some examples.) But as marketers we know that “the internet” can also tear poorly-judged campaigns to shreds … and they can do so very quickly and VERY publicly. Ironically, the worst campaign can get just as […]

Grill the Arsonist: Meet Bri
We knew she was a catch from her time spent as Intern Arsonist last summer, so we snagged her off the market immediately. Think she’s got what it takes to be grilled??? Read on…

All things RESEARCH – our most popular articles about brand and market research
As a marketer, you’re always trying to figure out what makes your target audience tick. Sometimes that’s obvious. Most of the time, it’s not. At MindFire, we believe in the power of research.