Beth Newton

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Posted by | June 5, 2025
5 Creative Ways to Use Customer Reviews to Strengthen Your Content Strategy

Customer reviews have never been more important. They’re the ultimate form of social proof, trusted by over 90% of consumers and B2B buyers to make purchase decisions. Beyond boosting trust,...

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Posted by | June 4, 2025
How to Optimize Content for AI-Driven Search

How to Optimize Content for AI-Driven Search Content marketing hit its stride around 2012 and skyrocked in 2015. Brands realigned strategies and those leading the way, like Microsoft and LinkedIn,...

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Social Media Marketing Myths "Barker"
Posted by | April 5, 2025
8 Social Media Marketing Myths

Social media marketing is a fast-moving target. As soon as you’ve got something figured out, whether it’s a platform’s algorithm, a paid media budget, or strategic hashtags, everything changes. Moving...

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Posted by | March 19, 2025
5 Rules for Running a Social Media Sweepstakes

Sweepstakes (also called giveaways) are ideal for building brand awareness, growing your social media following and capturing new leads. The proliferation of online platforms makes running a sweepstakes less intimidating...

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B2B LinkedIn Ads
Posted by | January 21, 2025
4 Critical Components for Your B2B LinkedIn Ad Strategy

Remember Mad Libs? Those pads of paper where you had to fill in the blanks with the correct word type to finish a story were how my brother and I...

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2025 Marketing Strategy ideas
Posted by | January 12, 2025
5 Fresh Tactics for Your 2025 Marketing Strategy

2025 is here and your marketing budget is less than you’d hoped. Amiright? As per usual, we’re tasked with crafting digital marketing strategies that exceed expectations without exceeding budgets. Still...

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alpha BRAVO wins gold dotCOMM
Posted by | September 5, 2024
Agency Wins Gold dotCOMM for Client’s Website Redesign

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   (St. Louis, MO) alpha | BRAVO is a Gold winner in the 2024 dotCOMM Awards, an international competition honoring excellence in web creativity and digital communication....

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Partner Marketing
Posted by | August 5, 2024
Partner Marketing is Soaring: Here’s Why – and How to Cash In

When it comes to social media, marketers like to S T R E T C H budgets. I get it. You need to prove ROI, and maybe you’re still not...

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Lessons from the ER
Posted by | May 5, 2024
5 Business Lessons From the ER

If you could run your business like an emergency room, certainly you’d be a leader with patience, grace and empathy, right? Based on my own recent experiences at the ER,...

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