Content Layering: Your Five-Step Recipe for Effective Content Marketing

By Stacey Piper With Cinco de Mayo right around the corner, I’ve been thinking about margaritas and guacamole more than usual. Mexican five-layer dip is extremely easy to put together in a casserole dish or trifle bowl, or you can buy ready-made variations from three to seven layers at many …

The Buyer Journey: When & How to Show Your True Colors

By Stacey Piper In today’s fast-paced marketing landscape, it’s crucial to evolve beyond the standard marketing campaign and get the most out of your resources by targeting your efforts. I advise my clients to adopt a comprehensive, end-to-end approach, building strategic marketing programs supported by robust campaign pillars. Each pillar …

Deliberate Marketing: 10 Steps for Successful Campaigns

By Stacey Piper February, the time of deliberation. We started out the year attacking our New Year’s resolutions to eat right or get in shape, or optimistically committed to target both pillars—nutrition and fitness—in an integrated way. But by now, many of us have fallen back into old habits or …

Walking on Sunshine: The Potential of Your Digital Footprint

By Stacey Piper Since school starts before Labor Day, we take our end-of-summer beach trip to the Outer Banks in early August. This year with three tween-age girls, the week was filled with floating movie nights in the pool, TikTok dance videos, and crab walks by flashlight. Summer is still …

10 Top Website Best Practices to Achieve Your B2G Goals

By Stacey Piper and Nicholas Kosar Web development and web design practices emerge one year and solidify as trends or fade away as fads in nearly every industry. It can be confusing for businesses to prioritize their best practices approach to building effective websites. Fortunately, GovCon and AEC have the …

Gambling on Strategic Marketing: How to Play Your Cards Right

By Stacey Piper The world is selling secrets. Advertisers bombard us with promises: the secret to a happy marriage, to retiring early, to looking younger, to losing weight. We’re ingrained to seek that special “something” that will be the answer, the solution, the magic equation, the be-all and end-all. I …

Intersection Point: Where Content, Sales, and Social Collide

I was pleased to speak at the 2014 Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit on the panel “Intersection Point: Where Sales, Social, and Content Collide.” It was an honor to join some great marketers to discuss these issues. Here’s the lineup! Moderator: Mark Hausman, President and CEO, Strategic Communications Group Helena Brito, Social Media Manager, FireEye, …