Black Friday Advertising: How to Stand Out When Everyone’s Shouting

Every November, inboxes overflow, feeds get louder, and ad space gets more competitive—it’s Black Friday season. For businesses, it’s both…

User-Generated Content: How to Encourage and Use It

  In the digital landscape, trust drives engagement. Today’s consumers are savvy; they want more than polished campaigns — they…

How to Get the Most for Your Business Out of ChatGPT-5

Introduction: Why ChatGPT-5 Is a Game-Changer for Businesses Released on August 7, 2025, ChatGPT‑5 is OpenAI’s latest flagship model—designed to…

The Rise of B2B Podcasting: Why Businesses Are Tuning In

  1. From Niche to Noteworthy: The Growth Trajectory Global Momentum: In 2025, there are approximately 584 million podcast listeners…

Why No One is Reading Your Blog and How to Get Them Interested

  You’ve poured time and energy into creating blog posts, but the traffic and engagement just aren’t there. It’s a…

Common Marketing Mistakes Businesses Make and How to Fix Them

  In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, even the most seasoned businesses can fall prey to common pitfalls. These…

Franchise Growth Hacked: How GPS Tracking and Behavioral Modeling Are Fueling Local Conquest

  In a franchise world dominated by national brand awareness, the real battle often happens on the street corner. Competing…

Why Cutting Ad Spend in a Downturn Is a Costly Mistake: How Strategic Marketing Builds Market Share in Uncertain Times

Economic Uncertainty Is Inevitable – Growth-Minded Marketing Wins Every Time   Recessions aren’t new. From the Great Depression to the…

Mid-Year Marketing Reflection: Assess, Adjust, and Accelerate

As we cross the midpoint of the year, it’s the perfect time to hit pause—not on your progress, but on…

What AI Can’t Do for You: Why Human Expertise Still Matters in Marketing

In today’s digital age, artificial intelligence is everywhere—from chatbots to content creation tools. While AI can be a powerful asset…

Marketing That Connects: How to Win the Hearts of Families Seeking Senior Care

Choosing a senior care facility isn’t just a business decision, it’s personal. Families looking for the right fit for their…

Franchise Fame: How to Build Buzz for a Multi-Location Brand

You know the feeling – you’re driving down the street and spot a “Coming Soon” sign for a new location…

Donor Retention Strategies: How to Attract and Keep Your Supporters Engaged

Attracting donors is only half the battle, keeping them engaged is where the magic happens! In today’s competitive nonprofit landscape,…

Marketing for Nonprofits: How to Amplify Your Mission and Increase Donations

  Nonprofits are built on passion, purpose, and the drive to make a difference. But to truly amplify your mission,…

Earth Day Marketing Ideas: Showcasing Your Brand’s Sustainability Efforts

  Earth Day isn’t just about planting trees and picking up litter — it’s a powerful opportunity to align your…

The Rise of Video Content: Why Your Business Needs to Get on Camera

In the fast-paced digital world, one trend is impossible to ignore: video content marketing. From viral TikToks to engaging Instagram…

Spring Clean Your Marketing Strategy: Refreshing Your Brand for Q2 Success

Spring isn’t just for decluttering closets — it’s the perfect time to refresh your marketing strategy! As the seasons change,…

Why Geofencing is a Gamechanger for Your Marketing Strategy

In today’s fast-paced digital world, getting your brand in front of the right people at the right time is crucial…

March Madness Marketing: How to Create Winning Campaigns

  March Madness isn’t just about basketball — it’s about strategy, competition, and the thrill of winning! As we enter…

Maximize Your Time: Daylight Savings Hacks to Feel Like You’ve Gained an Extra Hour Every Day

Every year, when Daylight Savings Time (DST) arrives, we “spring forward” and lose an hour of precious sleep. It’s a…

Social Media Content Creation: A Guide to Engaging Posts That Rank

  In the ever-evolving world of digital marketing, social media content creation is no longer optional for small businesses –…

How to Create a Content Calendar: A Step-by-Step Guide

  Creating a content calendar is essential for maintaining an organized and consistent content strategy. Whether you’re managing a blog,…

Love Your Brand: 5 Ways to Build Customer Loyalty This Valentine’s Season

February isn’t just about flowers and chocolates—it’s the perfect time to strengthen the bond between your business and your customers….

5 Reasons You Need to Invest in SEO

  Increase Your Traffic from Organic Search   When you invest in great SEO practices, you set the stage for…

Your Business vs. Your Brand: How to Excel at Both

When it comes to building a successful company, understanding the difference between your business and your brand is crucial. While…

Top Social Media Trends for 2025

Social media evolves constantly, with trends shifting from day to day. As we look toward 2025, some trends are set…

Get Your Business “Fit” for a “Strong” 2025

The start of a new year is the perfect time to reflect, reset, and resolve to make your business stronger…

Marketing for Intangible Products: Building a Brand that Connects

When it comes to marketing intangible products or services, it’s all about connecting with your audience and building trust. Unlike…

Maximize Your Reach with Low-Cost Marketing

In the competitive world of business, reaching your target audience is crucial. But what if your marketing budget is tight?…

‘Tis the Season of Giving: How Your Business Can Make a Difference

As December rolls around, many of us find ourselves reflecting on what we’re grateful for and looking for ways to…

Embrace Your Inner-Santa: Effective Marketing for Global Visibility

In the spirit of the holiday season, let’s take a page from Santa’s playbook. Santa’s got a pretty big task—visiting…

The Psychology Behind Effective Marketing: How Emotions Drive Consumer Decisions

At Kymera, we understand that successful marketing is more than just catchy slogans and flashy designs. It’s about tapping into…

Integrating Social Media with Email Campaigns

In the digital marketing world, two powerhouses reign supreme: social media and email. Both platforms offer unique benefits, but when…

Mastering Black Friday & Cyber Monday: Marketing Strategies for Maximum Impact

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are more than just days – they’re massive opportunities for businesses to skyrocket their sales….

Avoid the Scares: How to Dodge Halloween Marketing Pitfalls

Halloween is a time for tricks, treats, and spooky surprises, but the last place you want to encounter a scare…

How Do I Choose a Blog Topic?

Choosing the right blog topic can feel like a daunting task. Especially when you’re a small business owner juggling multiple…

Lead Generation for Your Clients: Best Practices for B2B

In today’s competitive business landscape, B2B companies must continually evolve their lead generation strategies to stay ahead. Whether you’re looking…

Fall Marketing Overhaul: Changing with the Season

As the leaves start to change, so should your marketing strategies. Fall is a season of transformation, and your business…

Your Content but Better: Tips for Writing Effective Content

  In the digital age, content is king. But not just any content – effective content. Effective content writing is…

Quarter Four Marketing Tips to Finish the Year Strong

As a small business owner, the fourth quarter is a critical time. It’s when you can make the most of…

Maximize Holiday Sales: Proven Strategies

  As the holiday season approaches, small businesses have a golden opportunity to boost their sales and make a lasting…

Make a Difference Without Dollars: How to Support Non-Profits Without Spending a Dime

Supporting non-profit organizations is a noble endeavor, but not everyone has the financial means to contribute directly. Fortunately, there are…

Maximizing Your ROI with a Content Agency

In today’s fast-paced digital world, leveraging the right marketing strategies is crucial for business growth. One effective way to enhance…

4 Industry Trends Franchises Need to Follow

Running a franchise can be a rewarding venture, but staying ahead of the curve is crucial for continued success. The…

Marketing Advice for Businesses

Running a business comes with a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Staying on top of effective marketing strategies can…

It’s Never Too Early to Start Thinking About Holiday Advertising

  As summer comes to an end, savvy business owners know that it’s never too early to start planning their…

Back to School with Kymera: How Marketing Can Make this The Best School Year Yet

Back to school means a lot of things: new school supplies, a new sports season, and even a new opportunity…

Social Media Platforms: Which is Best For Your Business?

Did you know it is expected that by 2025, over 5.1 billion people worldwide will use some form of social…

Social Media Marketing: Leave it to the Pro’s

Over 5.07 billion people use social media daily, so not using social media as part of your marketing strategy is…

Beat the Summer Slow Down With Marketing

Nearly every industry experiences a drop in sales during the summer months. Consumers spend less in May, June, and July…

Father’s Day Campaigns That Made an Impact

Father’s Day is a great time of year to remind your clients no matter what industry you’re in, you are…

How Marketing Can Help Recruit Top Employees

At the beginning of every summer, hundreds of thousands of students graduate from college and enter the workforce. To prospective…

Brand Adaptability: How Giving Your Brand a Facelift Can Save Your Business

In today’s dynamic, consumer-driven marketplace, change is the only constant that brands can count on. The needs of a business’s…

DIY Graphic Design Tools: When, How, and When Not To Use Them

Graphic design is an integral part of any marketing strategy. Your brand’s logo is what will help buyers recognize you,…

Google Ad Grants for Non-Profits

If you have a non-profit organization, you understand the need for advertising and attracting new donors. You also probably know…

How to Use Instagram to Market Your Business

With over 2 billion monthly users, and growing, Instagram is becoming one of the most widely used social media platforms…

Boost Your Business With Google Reviews

If you have a business, you should have a Google My Business page set up. This page allows potential customers…

Make it Personal: How to Target Omnichannel Campaigns

p Successful marketing campaigns have many assets, but they all have one common goal: increased conversions. Converting a potential buyer…

Tick Tock, the Clock is Running Out on Influencer Marketing

We hear daily how interest rates are rising, the cost of goods continues to increase, and the economy is on…

Boost Your Social Media Marketing

In this connected world with no boundaries, the things that in the past were unimaginable, like generating sales on the…

How Do you Know if your Direct Mail Marketing Was Actually Sent?

Kymera has been in the direct mail, or “performance marketing” business, for over 20 years, and we have heard this…

How AI is Revolutionizing Marketing

  Did you know that over $107 billion is in the global forecast for AI Marketing in 2025?  AI, short…

Increase Your Fundraising With Marketing: How to Grow Your Nonprofit and Charitable Organization

Nonprofit and charitable organizations are an interesting niche.  They require marketing like all for profit organizations do, but often run…

Maximize Your Reach and Build Stronger Relationships with Email Marketing

Did you know that over 4 billion people check and send their emails daily, and that number is expected to…

Modernize Your Mailers – How to Use Technology for an Updated Direct Mail Campaign

When some people think of direct mail marketing, they may associate it with an outdated, one size fits all approach…

How to Perfect Your Brand Strategy

Anyone with a business knows the importance of branding.  Branding is your business’s identity and the “personality of your business.” …

Break These 3 Bad Marketing Habits Now

The start of a new year is a great time to break bad habits and create positive resolutions that set…

Your Franchise 2024 Growth Plan

Succeeding in the franchise universe is a bit like tending to a garden — it demands lots of attention, patience…

Harnessing Hearts: Marketing Strategies for Nonprofits

The holidays are a time when thoughts naturally turn to those in need. But in the season of giving, sometimes…

7-Step Midyear Marketing Review

We’ve reached the halfway point of 2023 (can you believe it?!) — nonetheless, it’s the perfect time to step back…

Omnichannel Recruitment Campaigns for Your Business

In a tight labor market, organizations are struggling to staff key positions. But Kymera can help you fill job vacancies…

Successful Brand Building for Franchises

Marketing franchises presents distinct challenges from promoting stand-alone businesses. A unified brand identity must be maintained across all locations while…

How to Grow an Audience for Your Brand

If you want to grow your brand with content marketing, you need to do more than broadcast your message or…

A Time for Giving: Customer-focused Marketing

As 2022 winds to a close, it’s the perfect time to strategize about how you can use your marketing to…

Are You Haunted by These Monstrous Marketing Fears?

For some, the idea of marketing and advertising your business can be as inviting as an invitation to spend the…

Omnichannel Holiday Marketing

In a string of “different” holiday seasons, 2022 is keeping pace with an unpredictable trend where it seems the only…

Give Your Omnichannel Strategy Print Power

Omnichannel marketing leverages the power of multiple media formats and platforms to provide a seamless customer experience throughout the buyer’s…

Are You Ready for the Return of Retail Season?

Summer’s over, with back-to-school season in full swing. And before you know it, the mad dash to the holidays will…

Have You Optimized Your Mobile Site? If Not, It May Be Costing You

If your mobile site isn’t optimized, you’re likely missing out on valuable exposure, traffic — and sales. In 2021, mobile…

Omnichannel Marketing for Franchises

Omnichannel marketing is more than taking your content and spreading it out across as many platforms as possible. While that…

The Perils of DIY Marketing

As a business owner, you know that for some things to be done right, you simply have to do them…

When Less Is More in Your Content Marketing Strategy

When Shakespeare said, “brevity is the soul of wit,” he probably had no idea he was prophesizing a marketing strategy…

Service Franchise Marketing

Franchise businesses fall into two broad camps: product (or retail) franchises, and service franchises, with fewer of the latter. So,…

Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About

No news may be good news to some, but most businesses and brands want to be talked about a lot…

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas … at Kymera

’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the place, The marketing team stirred at a spirited pace. Direct mail…

Hashtag How-Tos: Strategies for Success

The social media hashtag is almost as ubiquitous as punctuation these days. We tag friends (#JaneJones), businesses (#WeAreKymera), cheers (#WayToGo),…

Why You Shouldn’t Launch Your Site on a Friday — and When You Should

Many clients believe that Friday is the best day to kick off a new or rebranded website. Maybe it’s because…

Yes, It’s Time to Jump Start Your Holiday Marketing

You haven’t even pulled a sweater out this year — could it already be time to think about your holiday…

Marketing Mistakes That Will Haunt Your Brand

It’s the time of year when we all enjoy a little bit of a fright — but you definitely don’t…

Direct Mail for Retail

Tired of shopping on small screens and mailing back what you don’t want? You’re not alone. Retail is roaring back…

4 Marketing Mistakes Growing Franchises Make

Growing a franchise is an exciting entrepreneurial adventure. But it’s a lot more fun — and more profitable — when…

From Clicks to Customers – Convert Your Leads with PPC

Pay per click (PPC) and other forms of paid search are great ways to jump start traffic to your website,…

Reputation Management Is More Important Than Ever for Businesses and Brands

The pandemic is making customers more tech savvy and more inclined to leave online reviews for businesses that they frequent….

Go from Buyer Persona to Hire Persona with the Kymera Careers Program

Finding a new employee isn’t hard — but finding the right one can be. Sometimes, the person you’ve been looking…

Online Event? Boost Interest with Virtual Event Marketing

Virtual events are cost-effective, accessible and can open your business up to a global audience of potential leads and customers….

Extra, Extra — Read All About It! How to Use Press Releases to Up Your Marketing Game

A good press release gets your story in front of a lot of eyes. And, unlike a feature written by…

Buyer Personas & Market Segmentation: Put a Face to Your Customer Base

If you haven’t established buyer personas for your business, then you might be wasting valuable time and marketing resources. Buyer…

Kymera’s Parent Company Mailtropolis to Launch New Transactional Mail Service

A level of transactional mail service, risk management, and security, once only accessible to the largest companies, will now be…

Kymera Helps Multi-Location Businesses Establish a Stronger Local Social Media Presence

You’ve grown into a successful multi-location business. Congratulations — that’s quite an achievement! But with all that growth comes new…

Kick Your Marketing Up a Notch with Multimedia Content

If you’ve gotten into a comfortable routine of posting weekly blogs to your website, that’s terrific. After all, consistency is…

Why Mobile Marketing Matters

If your website and marketing aren’t optimized for mobile users, you might be working twice as hard for half the…

Marketing Your Way to a Happy Holiday

As the holidays come into focus, this is your opportunity to end the year on an up note. However, to…

Six Scary Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

This Halloween, don’t let terrifying marketing mistakes frighten you. It’s a critical time for many businesses — the “home stretch”…

How Professional Project Management Benefits Your Bottom Line

Project management can represent anywhere from 5% to 20% of an overall marketing budget. And while that can look like…

DIY Marketing: Why Now May NOT Be the Best Time

It’s no secret that budget trimming is a necessity for many businesses right now, which is why do it yourself…

3 Ways to Supercharge Your E-commerce Business During COVID-19

E-commerce can help you reach a global audience and open up a whole new world of marketing and sales options….

5 Direct Mail Tips to Ramp up Your Response Rate

With the right strategy, direct mail can greatly increase your brand visibility and achieve a response rate of roughly 10-20…

How to Make Customers Fall in Love With Your Brand

There’s more to marketing than communicating features and benefits. The most effective marketing, be it traditional or digital, creates an…

Marketing for Boomers

Even in a youth-obsessed culture, your business needs to market to boomers. While the younger generation may steal the spotlight…

5 Strategies That’ll Drive Your Marketing, Literally

Change gears on your lead generation and bring your business straight to the customer with fleet vehicle marketing. It’s a…

How to Get the Most Out of Your Ad Agency

Working with a professional marketing agency can be a great way to improve your messaging and extend your reach as…

Are You Making These Costly Franchise Marketing Mistakes?

As a franchisor, you know that operating a franchise presents unique challenges compared to a multi-location business. And from a…

How To Market A Franchised Business

If you have a successful business, you might want to take it a step further and expand your reach by…

Why You Should Invest In Small Business Marketing

For small businesses, it can be a struggle when it comes to marketing. Small businesses often don’t have the budget or…

5 Rules Of Social Media Marketing You Should Be Following

In the world of technology, marketing has taken a total 180 degree turn and has taken itself to the internet….

99 Problems but a Wrap Ain’t One

They’re everywhere. Taking over the streets. Bombarding you with marketing messages. Some good. Some not so good. And some that…

For the LOVE of Type

Times certainly have changed since Gutenberg’s days of one-typeface letterpress. With digital presses today, typography, the art of working with…