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Reviewing Creative Like a Strategist

What to look for in campaign visuals, sales creative, and day-to-day content before it goes live. By: Ellie Marchiori Visuals are often the first thing people notice about your business, which means every piece of creative is an opportunity to reinforce your brand and make your message memorable. Great creative

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Meta Ads Not Delivering? 5 Common Causes of Learning Limited, Rejected, or Stuck Campaigns (and How to Fix Them)

By: Paige Johnson Summary: If your Meta ads are stuck in the Learning Phase, spending inconsistently, receiving limited delivery, or getting rejected, the issue may not be your creative or targeting. This article explores five common causes of Meta campaign delivery problems, including learning limitations, restrictive audience settings, policy violations,

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3 Fundamentals Learned in 20 Years of Marketing

By: Samantha Scott, APR Twenty years is a long time in marketing. In fact, it’s practically several lifetimes when you consider how quickly technology, platforms, and consumer behaviors evolve. When I founded Pushing the Envelope, Facebook didn’t exist. (Can you even remember a time before things were “FBO”?!) “Digital strategy”

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Marketing Campaign Alignment: The Framework to Cohesiveness

By: Ellie Marchiori In today’s marketing landscape, brands rarely rely on just one channel to reach their audience. Email, paid social, search, websites, traditional advertising, and in-store experiences all play a role. But when those channels are not aligned under a unified marketing strategy, performance suffers. Omnichannel marketing is not

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Understanding Marketing Metrics & Why They Matter

By: Paige Johnson Open any marketing report dashboard, and it can feel like staring at the cockpit of a plane—graphs everywhere, numbers blinking, acronyms you vaguely remember agreeing to track. CPC. Impressions and reach. CTR. ROAS. Cool… but what are you supposed to do with all of it? Marketing metrics

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Marketing with AI: How to Use It Without Losing Your Voice

By: Tricia Mullis In a world where content is being generated and absorbed at record speed, AI-powered copywriting tools like ChatGPT, Jasper, and Claude have earned their spot in your toolbox. They’re fast, accessible, and surprisingly helpful in many everyday tasks. But here’s the catch: in the race to produce

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Decoding Digital Advertising: How to Use SEM, SEO & PPC for Maximum ROI

By: Paige Johnson Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising has long been a cornerstone of digital marketing because it delivers measurable results and immediate visibility from high-intent audience members. However, running an effective search campaign isn’t as simple as setting a budget and pressing “launch.” Businesses that maximize return on investment (ROI) treat

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Lights, Camera, Conversions: How to Create High-Impact Video Content

By: Ellie Marchiori Whether you’re scrolling through social media, visiting a website, or opening an email, there’s one type of content that consistently grabs your attention… Video is dynamic, memorable, and capable of conveying more emotion and information in seconds than paragraphs of text ever could. Done right, it can

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Stop & Stare: Tips for Creating Engaging, Share-Worthy Content

By: Bethany Chadwick Cordero Let’s be real: in a feed flooded with endless posts, your content has milliseconds—literally—to make someone stop, stare, and share. At Pushing the Envelope, we see this every day. As a graphic designer, I know firsthand how the right design choices and the right tools can

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