Writings from Force 5 Basecamp

07/21/20

We live in challenging times. COVID-19 has dramatically changed traditional human behavior in a short amount of time, leaving nearly all of us in a trance asking ourselves “where do we go from here?” From a business standpoint, “how is the way I conduct business going to change?” Furthermore, from a marketing standpoint, “how do the side effects of COVID

06/02/20

By Bob Earley For years, I’ve heard that “traditional” media is dying.  Newspapers are gone; tv is being replaced with streaming services. And radio, well… it’s dead, being replaced with services like pandora. So, the power of radio, is it dead? Think again. According to Nielsen’s May 2020 ratings, listenership has steadily grown over the last 5 years. And, the

05/28/20

By Bob Earley I realize that there’s a redundancy in this blog’s title. However, so many people talk about vision, strategies, goals and objectives and yet so many fail one of the final steps: execute. How many times have you sat in planning meetings (and meetings to talk about scheduling the planning meetings), taking copious notes and leave the meeting

05/11/20

Written by Jim Ragosta Live Streaming has been popular during the COVID-19 outbreak, and I refer to “live streaming” in a broad way within this article because there are so many ways to do so. Live Streaming allows people to engage in real time, whether that’s watching your favorite artist perform, obtaining information from a press briefing, or watching your

04/20/20

Working from home can be refreshing while providing a new perspective of your life. It can also be a time of mental fatigue and anxiety that are sometimes accompanied with loneliness while being sheltered. And, there are underlying conditions among many hospitalized adults during the COVID pandemic who have pre-existing mental and physical compromises. Therefore, one must be disciplined in keeping perspective

04/17/20

This year has certainly been an interesting one so far; a world of dichotomies. In a matter of a few months, we went from having the lowest recorded unemployment rate to having over 22 million people filing for unemployment. We are all experiencing the devastating effect of the COVID outbreak. Like many, we want to continue helping our community, and

04/14/20

During these challenging times, many of us are experiencing furloughs, unemployment, the juggling of our work schedules along with the schedules of students and their e-learning. On top of those challenges is wondering how do we stay in contact with our target audiences. Some experts have said people are “hunkered down” and aren’t doing anything, causing some businesses to wonder

03/27/20

03/24/20

(South Bend, IN. Tuesday, March 24, 2020)  Force5 has launched a new website and facebook page called Force 4 Good. The Force 4 Good web and facebook platform shares good works being done in the local community and around the country during the trying times of the Pandemic crisis. Aside from stories highlighting the good works that come out of

03/16/20

  Being in the world of marketing communications we are abundantly aware of the huge budgets that are involved in an event like March Madness. With COVID-19 impacting everything from sports to travel to conferences and so much more – there is so much loss financially.   Looking at the hard numbers of those huge losses, specifically in regards to

03/12/20

40,000 search queries occur every second on average, which translates to 3.5 billion searches per day. Incredible right? And this is just from Google alone. Think about how often you search using Google each day? These searches could be as simple as: “What kind of oil does my 2012 Camaro take,” where multiple results appear, illustrating: Where you can purchase

02/25/20

McDonald’s recently launched an outdoor marketing campaign which they call “Iconic Stacks”. Each design is a minimalist, typographic representation of one of their classic sandwiches. At face value, it’s a clever and fun way to ask people to pause for a moment and think about their sandwiches. But it’s just type. There are no photos with perfectly poised drips of