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Fluent Q+A with Marnie Grumbach
Q: How did you come to start fluent? Q: Why did you choose the name fluent? When I launched fluent, I was primarily targeting clients...
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Agency life: tools of the trade
One of the perks of our job is that no two days are ever the same. We might be spending much of our day at a desk, visiting clients for...
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Fluent Q+A with Emily Broadbent
New on the blog – interviews with our own team. A quick look at how we got to where we are now, and what we love about our industry!...
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Annual Planning – The Key to a Successful New Year
We know many people are ready to say goodbye to 2020, but don’t rush the year away before planning for 2021. After everything this year...
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Event marketing nay-sayers: is it time to rethink virtual events?
Here we are, five months into a global pandemic, and virtual meetings are our lifeline to keeping business – and arguably life – running...
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First steps to developing an engaging B2B email newsletter
We’ve talked about hearing from companies that they struggle with marketing their self-proclaimed boring business, and a lot of these...
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Ask these 5 questions before you hire a marketing agency
Brands choose to work with us for a number of reasons – to assess and fine tune the look and feel of their brand, to leverage their...
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4 big lessons we’ve learned from Covid and BLM in a few short months
If you’re paying attention, you know that the worlds of public relations and marketing are already different from what they were in...
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Should you outsource your marketing or keep it in-house?
Some companies are intimidated by the idea of hiring an outside marketing agency. Many believe they don’t need outside support because...
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The Marketing Audit: What. Why. How?
Q1 is a great time to stop, take a close look at your marketing and communications efforts, measure and reflect. Even the most robust and...
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Fluent IMC receives awards recognizing national communications campaign
Fluent IMC, was recognized last week at the Maine Public Relations Council’s Golden Arrow Awards for its work in 2019, receiving a Gold...
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Emily Broadbent promoted to Account Manager
“Emily is incredibly valuable to Fluent’s team. She contributes the ideal mix of a strategic mindset, creative vision, organization and...
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How to market a boring business
We’ve heard this one more than once: “what we do is so boring, it’s pretty hard to make us look interesting.” As professional services...
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How to get your story covered by local TV
As an integrated firm, PR is a big part of our day-to-day work for clients. We’re often asked if a client’s idea will interest a local TV...
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Video + storytelling = A branding win-win
We recently had the privilege of helping Levey Day School with a messaging campaign. This amazing little school has a powerful parent...
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It’s annual planning season…the hap-happiest season of all
It’s October. Q1 will be here in a flash. Now is the time for budgeting, planning and getting 2020 in order. ‘Tis the season for helping...
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How to measure your PR program’s effectiveness
The ROI of public relations has been elusive for many communications pros, mainly because returns on a brand awareness investment have...
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Email Marketing: Dinosaur or Superhero?
We all know the basics of old-school email marketing: drip, drip, drip. Email fatigue. Unsubscribe. We’re often asked by clients: is...
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Top 5 PR Lessons We Teach Every New Client
There are aspects of our industry that are just plain confusing for our clients, not to mention family and friends. I give my dad a ton...
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Fluent IMC receives three Golden Arrow Awards from Maine Public Relations Council
Fluent IMC took home three Golden Arrow Awards in a ceremony held at Rising Tide Brewing on December 12. The annual awards of the Maine...
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