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Random and intentional thoughts on digital design & marketing

November Marketing Thoughts from Splat

From Fizzle To Sizzle: Why Listening Matters In the 1980s, people took their coke really seriously. Sorry, we meant to say Coca-Cola. Decades before social media, customer dissatisfaction could still go viral – and acting quickly to keep customers happy mattered just as much then as it does now. On this day in 1985, a […]

Why You Should Think Twice Before Responding to an RFP in 2024

What’s an RFP? Ah, the dreaded RFP—Request for Proposal. It sounds official, maybe even a little exciting. But let’s be real: it often translates to “Please Spend Hours Crafting a Detailed Plan for Us—For Free.” Whether it’s for graphic design, marketing, video production, or even architecture, an RFP usually means a lot of work with […]

Go With The Flow

Recently, the team at Splat had the pleasure of helping Louis Hockman, principal of ADRx, expand his audience by creating a streamlined process to grow his email list. Lou came to us with a challenge: his reach wasn’t as broad as it could be, and he needed a solution to engage more people in a […]

On Being Your Own (The) Boss

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession. -Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen’s recent two-show run in Philadelphia had us thinking once again about the Boss’s unique role as an American entertainer – and entrepreneur. If you’ve ever been to one of his shows and […]

The Best AI Essay Writers and Writing Tools of 2024

At Splat, we’re quite over AI dread. We’ve all heard the “it’s not AI that will replace you, but someone using AI” line, and it’s most likely true. But “using AI” is a broad statement. What is the best AI essay writer, for instance? What is the best free AI writer? If we want to […]

Google Practitioner Listings: What are they and why should you care?

We’ve written a lot over the years about Local SEO and our longstanding belief that it offers one of the best ‘bang for your buck’ opportunities for business’ to show up in organic search. Our obsession also is self-interested: many of our clients are professional service firms, with physical locations that allow them to maximize […]

What SGE Means: Google AI Search And How Do You Rank On It?

On May 10, 2023, the date of Google I/O 2023, the meaning of a Google AI search changed. Google was once like a librarian who offered you a list of sources of information. It even ranked them from best to worst for your convenience. Now, with its AI-powered Google Search Generative Experience (SGE), Google wants […]

Local SEO for Law Firms

A beginner’s guide to Local SEO for law firms. Of all the different flavors of digital marketing our clients hire us to perform, local search engine optimization (Local SEO) is probably the least understood. Often, though, the relatively high return on investment good local provides makes it a no-brainer recommendation for our law firm clients. […]