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There is no rulebook for when a global pandemic strikes. As billions of people are spending on average up to 20 percent more time on social media, marketers recognized the opportunity. When it comes to situations like COVID-19, how does your team react? We have a few recommendations to keep your team and your brand moving.

It’s a scary time – not only for our health and well-being, but for businesses too. We know many businesses are wondering how to proceed. And as brand experts, we’re firm believers that a strong brand is even more important during a crisis.

Caroline Schweitzer made her way to the Quad Cities to join the team as MindFire’s Creative Arsonist in 2017. She has been a vital asset for our clients – lighting fires with her creative spark and talent. Can she handle the hot seat like she handles creating smokin’ hot concepts?

We often create rules that aren’t even there, or we’re trying to work within a box that has been set by our colleagues. So, the question becomes a matter of “thinking outside the box.”

Is your website accessible to everyone who browses it? If you can’t answer that question confidently, you may want to consider reading this. 

Different brands use different colors, photos and fonts along with a variety of other design elements to stand out on that shelf. At MindFire, we use a wide variety of design elements to help positively affect our clients’ target audiences – to essentially make our clients stand out.

It seems like businesses often consider technology as a major burden – like it’s some unfortunate necessity. At MindFire, we embrace it because we know it's a conduit through which our [rather expansive] brand-building ideas can flow freely.

At MindFire, we’re always searching for ways to create emotional responses in our clients' target audiences. How do we inspire them to take a specific action?

Are your divisions stuck in silos, making it difficult to connect to appropriate leads? Enter one of 2019’s most buzzworthy phrases: Account Based Marketing, or ABM.

With so many places to spend your advertising budget, it can feel impossible to decide which mediums are best. The onslaught of digital ads is even more confusing, but instead of playing it safe with tried-and-true approaches, it's time to start getting digital.

Your personal brand has the potential to add value to your organization’s brand. In fact, there’s often a very fine line between a company’s brand and the personal brands of its leadership and team.

Elliott spent a summer at MindFire as a design intern and then agreed to officially join the gang full-time. Let’s see what Elliott has to say for himself when we put him in the hot seat…