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    Marketing Tech Stack Essentials—Building a Powerful Revenue Tower®
    The Revenue Tower is Pepper Group’s proven system to help high-growth organizations acquire more customers, retain and grow business with current customers and build a scalable marketing machine that adds...
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    Boosting ROI with Better Email Deliverability and High Engagement Rates
    Despite what some might think, email marketing is far from dead! It's still a key part of successful marketing strategies, offering personalized, targeted messages that drive real results and deliver...
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    DeliverHealth's Lead-Generation Success: How a Targeted Campaign Boosted eSOne™ InstaNote’s...
    DeliverHealth’s previous digital marketing campaign for its eSOne™ scribing services, focused on synchronous scribing, was underperforming. Despite efforts to generate leads, the campaign failed to bring in qualified prospects, leaving...
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    Supporting In-Person Events With Digital Marketing Tools: A Comprehensive Strategy
    In-person events present meaningful opportunities for generating leads and boosting revenue, but how can you maximize these opportunities and get the most out of your event? In the B2B landscape,...
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    15 Ideas for Amplifying Your Culture Within Your Space
    Some of our clients tell us that attracting and retaining talent is the #1 most important factor in their growth. Whether or not this describes your organization, there’s no doubt...
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    Brand Launch – TIGRIS - A Premier Surface Water Management...
    Plexus Capital sought to launch a new platform company that would consolidate a number of companies and services into one leading national solution for lake, pond, wetland and stormwater management.
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    MarTech Moment: Optimizing B2B Landing Pages for Lead Generation
    Landing pages are a crucial component of any marketing campaign. They serve as dedicated entry points that focus on converting visitors into self-identifying leads or customers. Unlike general website pages,...
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    The Revenue Tower®—A System for Growing Revenue and Business Value
    At Pepper Group, we’ve run the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), also known as Traction, for 15 years. The value of EOS is right in its name—it’s a system for operating...
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    The Content Marketing Matrix
    90% of B2B marketers say they are increasing or at least maintaining their content marketing efforts, according to recent surveys. The results support the consensus that content marketing is effective....
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    Digital Enrollment Campaign—North Shore Country Day School
    According to Private School Review research statistics, there are 1,656 private schools in Illinois, most in the Chicagoland area, all looking to deliver the highest quality education to the 260,000...
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    MarTech Moment: Understanding HubSpot and How to Maximize Its Potential
    HubSpot was recently named the #1 Marketing and Digital Advertising Product for 2024 in G2’s Annual Best Software Awards, and its customer satisfaction is among the highest in the industry. But...
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    Our Beloved Snow Pile is Famous
    We call it the S-No Pile Challenge. Whoever guesses the day the snow pile will be completely gone without even a speck of ice—without going over—wins a nice prize.
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    Reimagining the Marketing and Sales Funnel
    Did you know that the “funnel” framework was conceived more than 100 years ago? It gained prominence around the 1960s and it’s still commonly used today. But is a customer...
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    MarTech Moment: SEO 101
    This year, Chrome is disabling third-party cookies, marking a significant win for privacy. However, this change poses a challenge for data-driven marketers. Despite this change, Google assures it will allow...
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    Why Customer Interviews Should Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy
    When we begin an engagement with a new client, we lead them through an extensive discovery process so that we can learn about their business, their goals, their products or...
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    Avoid the Knowledge Curse
    Once we know something, we often assume everyone else knows it, too. That’s “The Curse of Knowledge,” and it means what’s clear to you might be confusing to someone else.
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    How to Win the Talent War
    Despite uneven economic reports, last month’s unemployment rate held at a very low 3.7%. And while down from its post-pandemic peak, there are still currently 1.4 job openings per job...
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    MarTech Moment: Anatomy of an Ad
    Navigating the competitive and confusing landscape of digital marketing can be challenging for even the savviest marketers. However, it doesn't have to be. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google are the top...
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    eBook and LinkedIn Campaign—Robertshaw
    Gas stoves, although loved by consumers, have become the center of a significant debate around indoor air pollution. Robertshaw, the global leader in integrated flow control technologies, is creating innovative...
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    Pepper Group, at the Core
    At Pepper Group, we are not just what we do but who we are. Sure, we move people—prospects to websites, customers to purchase, stakeholders to invest. But it’s how we...
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    New Service Launch—Roof Advantage 360
    When the fastest growing roofing contractor in the country wanted to develop and launch a new national service program, they turned to Pepper Group.
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    Astronomy and Copywriting
    In this blog series, Brian or “New-B” (aka the newbie copywriter) explores messaging conveyed in unexpected places and how interconnected messaging can be found everywhere in our everyday lives. It’s...
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Be Smarter Tomorrow
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    Trade Show Booth & Video—Medtelligent
    Medtelligent’s software, ALIS, is an innovative and cutting-edge platform purpose-built for assisted living communities. With a prime location at the industry’s most important show, and their biggest booth ever, the...
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    From Blueprint to Text: Comparing Copywriting to Architecture
    In this blog series, Brian or “New-B” (aka the newbie copywriter) explores messaging conveyed in unexpected places and how interconnected messaging can be found everywhere in our everyday lives. It’s...
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    Musings From the New Writer on the Block
    In this blog series, Brian or “New-B” (aka the newbie copywriter) explores messaging conveyed in unexpected places and how interconnected messaging can be found everywhere in our everyday lives. It’s...
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Initiative Has No Boundaries
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    Client Spotlight: Interior and Exterior Graphics - Kensing
    Spurred by their upcoming hosting of a new, significant prospect, Kensing wanted a facility that reflected its growth and modern approach, as well as create a space where its employees...
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    Marketing Myth: Digital Marketing Only Works for B2C Companies
    Digital marketing—a big term that includes everything from digital advertising and emails to content marketing and virtual reality—continues to grow faster than traditional advertising methods.
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    Website Accessibility: Everything You Need to Know
    TL;DR version: Ensuring accessible access for your website has become a requirement. But thanks to advances in technology, it’s much faster, easier and cheaper than you might think.
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Pride in Craft and Service
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    The Future Is Near
    Can this year possibly be almost over already? Half of me says “finally” and half of me says “Are you kidding me? No, too soon!” But no matter how I...
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    Client Spotlight: Schebler Chimney Systems
    Schebler Chimney had a brand and a website that didn’t accurately convey their advanced approach to product quality, safety and engineering. We fixed that.
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    Pepper Group: Face to Face with Grace
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    Solid Market Intelligence
    “How are you doing, compared to your competition?” It’s one of the first questions I like to ask prospective clients.
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    Buy It, Read It, Share It and Gift It
    When a book is recommended to me by multiple people within just a few days, I tend to become intrigued. When the book is by Seth Godin, it’s a curiosity...
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    Client Spotlight: Rockfon
    Rockfon came to us with this challenge. They wanted to showcase a case study in the form of a modern, high-quality video.
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Scraped Knees Teach Us to Dance
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    Get Motivated
    We all fight the good fight—how do I get more done? What are great software packages to help me? What kinds of lists should I make? Should I get an...
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Face to Face with Grace
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    Best and Brightest Places to Work in Chicago
    We’re proud to announce that we have received our 10th consecutive annual recognition as one of Chicago’s 2022 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®. We’ve tried hard to bring...
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Pride in Craft and Service
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    Client Spotlight: Akrete
    Akrete is an award-winning public relations firm with a wide variety of clients and an emphasis on commercial real estate, finance, cannabis and professional services. They have an exceptional team...
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Work and Play with Passion
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    Change Your State of Mind
    Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you internally, or even out loud, say, “How did I get so lucky as to experience this moment?” When it happens,...
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    Client Spotlight: Rebar Technology
    Rebar Technology’s unique subscription software is a truly innovative solution. As a relatively new division of W. Capra Consulting Group, the company needed a full-service marketing partner to help support...
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    Getting the Silent Treatment
    When a couple of friends told me three years ago about their experience going on a silent retreat, I said I’d be interested if they’d ever want to do it...
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Strength of the Wolf is in...
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    Client Spotlight: TNS
    Transaction Network Services (TNS), a global supplier of networking and integrated data services in the payments, financial and communications industries, wanted to attract top payments industry players to a new,...
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Choose to be Challenged
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    Client Spotlight: Vault JS
    Flexsys, formerly the tire additives division of Eastman Chemical Company, was born more than a quarter of a century ago, and their products date back to 1944. Flexsys is a...
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    The Next Big Thing
    Ah, the last month of the year is upon us. A time of reflection, evaluation, jubilation, maybe some regret, but I hope there is a ton of optimism. Where will...
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Pack Strength
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    Client Spotlight: Flexsys
    Flexsys, formerly the tire additives division of Eastman Chemical Company, was born more than a quarter of a century ago, and their products date back to 1944. Flexsys is a...
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    Celebrating Our Core Values: Scraped Knees
    At Pepper Group, our core values remind us of what’s most important. They help us remember when it’s time to take a deep breath, and when it’s time to get...
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    It’s Planning Season But Don’t Forget about 2021
    November usually kicks off the planning season. You start to look at budgets and goals for the coming year, usually with great optimism. But don’t forget about 2021 quite yet.
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    Client Spotlight: The Goldie Initiative
    The Goldie Initiative is a not-for-profit organization that prepares women for senior leadership roles throughout the commercial real estate industry. Every year, the Goldie Initiative hosts the Goldie Gala, their...
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    What's Your Personal Brand?
    Years ago, I was starting a new sales position for a printing company. I went to three weeks of training in Atlanta, and when I got back, I was assigned...
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    How Do We Do it?
    We move prospects from considering to purchasing, users from clicking to bookmarking, and existing customers coming back for more. But moving people isn’t as easy as we make it look.
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    Client Spotlight: Velis
    A consulting firm with 11 offices in the Midwest—specializing in planning and designing state and local infrastructure improvements—wanted to expand its successful logistics consulting practice. However, prospective customers weren’t seeing...
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    Bookshelf Roulette
    Let’s take a little detour in the Dog Days of Summer and share a some fun and facts with a little game I like to call Bookshelf Roulette!
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    You Scream, We Scream, I Scream for Pepper Group
    Chocolate? Mint? Moose Tracks? At Pepper Group, we like to get to know our clients and each other as people. As friends. That’s the origin of our Sharing Scroll. It’s...
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    Client Spotlight: BAI Digital Acceleration Video
    BAI is a non-profit organization that collects and shares data and actionable insights for financial services leaders. They studied the impact of digital banking on the financial services market including...
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    Chicago’s 2021 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For
    Pepper Group is proud to announce that for the 9th year in a row we have been named one of Chicago’s 2021 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®.
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    We Move People
    At Pepper Group, our Purpose Statement is: We Move People. Well, we are physically moving our people—from the fourth floor of our building to the third. We’ve reduced our footprint...
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    New Company Launch: Website and Branding—Kensing
    Back in February, One Rock Capital Partners came to us with an exciting acquisition of a BASF chemical manufacturing site in Kankakee, IL. They had four months to carve out...
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    What are your Content Marketing Goals (and how can you...
    We do a lot of content marketing at Pepper Group, and we’re always taking every opportunity to add to our toolkit and get smarter. I recently attended the Ad World...
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    Great Creative, Now!
    Just how fast can something be done? There are physical and mental limitations to anything. Even with the speed and precision of robotics, manufacturing is limited at some point by...
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    Client Spotlight: Kensing
    Back in February, One Rock Capital Partners came to us with an exciting acquisition of a BASF chemical manufacturing site in Kankakee, IL. They had four months to carve out...
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    New Engineering Division Logo and Microsite—Technetics Semi
    The parent company of our client Technetics Group, Enpro, recently created a new segment called Advanced Surface Technologies. The new segment contains two other Enpro companies, as well as the...
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    Your customers may be irrational. Let’s market to them.
    Behavioral economics, the study of how and why people buy things, can provide highly valuable insights for strategic marketers.
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    An astronaut's insurance
    Space has been a popular topic these days. Elon Musk seems to be leading the private sector, we’ve launched a helicopter on Mars, and a rocket narrowly missed the Maldives...
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    Client Spotlight: Technetics Semi
    The parent company of our client Technetics Group, Enpro, recently created a new segment called Advanced Surface Technologies. The new segment contains two other Enpro companies, as well as the...
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    The Best Books on Consumer Behavior
    How can marketers take advantage of the psychology of persuasion? What are decision traps? How do you sell “the invisible?” Those are just some of the valuable topics that helps...
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    Banking Attitudes Infographic and Report Design—BAI
    Nonprofit organization BAI provides actionable insights and research that help financial organizations make smarter, forward-thinking decisions. Recently, they completed a multi-year survey to determine how consumer behaviors differ by generations,...
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    Why Tim Will Be Hiking
    A bear gets to skip winter. What’s up with that? Not only am I jealous, but so are most of his fellow forest friends. It’s baffled me for years.
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    Client Spotlight: Banking Attitudes: BAI
    Nonprofit organization BAI provides actionable insights and research that help financial organizations make smarter, forward-thinking decisions. Recently, they completed a multi-year survey to determine how consumer behaviors differ by generations,...
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    Cannabis Company Launch: Website Design—Green Meadows
    The descendants of General George S. Patton began to realize the immense benefits of cannabis in helping veterans and their families cope with PTSD, social isolation and pain-related issues.
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    This Behavioral Insight Can Keep You From Losing Sales
    Learn about how behavioral insight can keep you from losing sales by downloading our newest white paper.
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    Accessible Website
    Sometimes we take for granted that we can access so much information from the Internet. But what about people with disabilities? If you can’t see, can’t hear?
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    Client Spotlight: Green Meadows
    The descendants of General George S. Patton began to realize the immense benefits of cannabis in helping veterans and their families cope with PTSD, social isolation and pain-related issues. With...
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    “Build Now” Advocacy Social Media Campaign and Website Design—MSCI
    The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gives U.S. Infrastructure a grade of D+ for being “mostly below standard” and at “strong risk of failure.” Improvements will provide strong benefits,...
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    Yes, You Can Sell $1 For More than a Dollar
    Learn about thinking forward and reasoning backwards by downloading our newest white paper.
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    How a Deck of Cards can be Arranged
    If you’re a very curious person, you might be wildly happy attending classes, reading books, watching videos, attending events, etc. If you’re a very, very curious person, this could become...
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    Client Spotlight: Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) Social Media Campaign
    The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gives U.S. Infrastructure a grade of D+ for being “mostly below standard” and at “strong risk of failure.” Improvements will provide strong benefits,...
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    The 6 Principles for Making Your Message Sticky
    From jokes to urban legends, somethings just stick with us. But what makes something stick, and something else entirely forgettable? For marketers, stickiness is critically important so their target audience...
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    6 Keys to Creating a Great Name for Your Company...
    It can be hard enough to name a dog. But naming a new product, service or company? Now that's hard. It requires experience, creativity and a lot of thought. And...
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    Engineering Manufacturer Website Design—Technetics Group
    From the center of a nuclear reactor pressure vessel to the deepest recesses of a 250-ton jet soaring across the sky, Technetics Group provides highly engineered solutions to withstand the...
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    Client Spotlight: Technetics Group
    From the center of a nuclear reactor pressure vessel to the deepest recesses of a 250-ton jet soaring across the sky, Technetics Group provides highly engineered solutions to withstand the...
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    Pepper Partner of the Month: The Traction Group
    We’ve had the pleasure to work with The Traction Group for several years. It’s a team of five ultra-experienced business coaches. They are each individuals, as far as experience goes,...
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    Client Spotlight: Pepper Group
    Pepper Group helps clients out-market their competition. We create exponential results by combining strategic branding and creative with advanced digital science. In short, we move people.
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    How Game Theory Drives Better Outcomes
    Typically, marketing communications are targeted at prospective and current customers. Targeting prospective and current employees is also legitimate.
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    The Status Quo Trap & How to Escape It
    For most of us, change is uncomfortable. It’s called the Status Quo Trap, and it refers to how most of us have a strong bias towards keeping things the same.
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    Partner of the Month—Meltzer, Purtill & Stelle, LLC
    Tim first met Mark Raymond nearly 20 years ago and enjoyed his initial conversation very much—and every conversation since. Mark is a family man, loves his hideaway on Green Lake,...
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    Client Spotlight: Illinois Blower
    When you manufacture the highest quality, custom industrial fans and blowers, you need the highest quality website with powerful messaging to back up your brand. As their old site celebrated...
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    Client Spotlight: Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) Event
    The Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) is the broadest-based, not-for-profit trade association serving the industrial metals industry. With over 100 years of knowledge and thought leadership, MSCI provides its North...
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    How to Avoid the Knowledge Curse
    Once we know something, we often assume everyone else knows it, too. That’s “The Curse of Knowledge,” and it means what’s clear to you might be confusing to someone else.
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    Partner of the Month—DSP Insurance Services
    Does your prized exotic car need insurance? Is your grandmother’s wedding ring sitting in a drawer and you have meant to get it covered for years? What about that antique...
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    Acoustic Ceiling Design Video and Brochure—Rockfon
    To many, ceilings may seem like just a required element of a room, what Rockfon strives to show is that they are so much more than that. In fact, the...
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    Cannabis Construction Website Design and eBook—Reed Construction
    Reed, who builds, designs and engineers commercial buildings, had recently completed some projects in the cannabis market and were looking to expand.
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    Cannabis Oil Extractor Launch: Identity and Website Design—Verdara Technologies
    Cannabis is one of the most specialized industries anywhere, and when an engineering and fabrication company identified an opportunity to apply its expertise towards supplying specialized equipment for hemp and...
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    Specialty Medical Devices Website Design—Parasol Medical
    A premier developer of specialty medical devices, Parasol Medical is dedicated to making the lives of clinicians easier and improving patient outcomes throughout the healthcare market. Over the past few...
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    “Sweet Solution” Cable Management Lead Generation Mailer—Image Industries
    Managing cables on heavy equipment has been a challenge for as long as there have been cables to manage. Over the years, engineers were forced to develop their own homegrown...
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    Advanced Engineering Technology Website Design—Crescend Technologies
    For more than 41 years, Crescend Technologies has been a premier manufacturer of high-power RF amplifier systems. After years of growth, an acquisition, and the development of new technologies, the...
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    How Anchoring Impacts Marketing
    Anchoring refers to how an initial number or concept affects the way people view things. It’s a powerful concept, and knowing how to use it can influence your pricing model,
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    Client Spotlight: Verdara
    Cannabis is one of the most specialized industries anywhere, and when an engineering and fabrication company identified an opportunity to apply its expertise towards supplying specialized equipment for hemp and...
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    Pepper Partner of the Month-Lyric Solutions
    At Pepper Group, we know that when a sales team is firing on all cylinders our marketing strategies and tactics are exponentially more successful. Once we generate sales leads for a...
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    Tim’s Essential Marketing Tips
    Being nimble in the marketplace can mean success or failure. All too often, we are slow to act when we see something not working to our expectations. Maybe we’re too...
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    Client Spotlight: Reed Construction
    It’s the things you don’t see—our research, interviewing and planning—that make our marketing plans unique, and effective. That’s been exactly the case with our recent work for Reed Construction.
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    The Top 25 Most Popular Snacks
    The more we stay at home, the more we find ourselves standing in front of our pantry. Inspired (discouraged?) by our waistlines, we thought we’d feature the most popular snacks...
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    Pepper Partner of the Month—Sales Empowerment Group
    It’s my pleasure this month to introduce you to not only a great company, but also a true pro who practices what he preaches. He is The Sales Drummer.
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    Pepper Partner of the Month-JazzHR
    A new feature of the Pepper Mill will be focused on Pepper Group’s strategic partners. We have been users of JazzHR for over three years and find it very intuitive...
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    Todd’s Top 25 Jokes
    Every Monday we have an agency-wide status meeting, and Todd always shares a joke. We asked him for his 25 favorites. So, as part of our year-long celebration of our...
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    Tim’s Essential Marketing Tips, Part 10
    Every marketing tactic and tool has purpose. If it’s at all measurable, make sure you gather as much info as you can. Then, be very judicious as to how you...
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    With your next trade show canceled, how do you reach...
    Typically, there are 31,000 trade shows in the U.S. every year, and for good reason. In a 2018 poll, 88% of exhibitors felt trade shows were a great way to...
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    The Top 25 Dances of the Last 50 Years
    Sometimes you just have to get on your feet and dance, dance, dance. For our 25th anniversary, we’re posting our favorite top 25 lists. Here are the best dances, starting...
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    Client Spotlight: Rockfon
    To many, ceilings may seem like just a required element of a room, what Rockfon strives to show is that they are so much more than that. In fact, the...
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    Tim’s Essential Marketing Tips, Part 9
    The “In case you missed my previous 15 emails …” type of approach is never going to be attractive to professionals. Unsolicited emails are maddening at times, but 83% of...
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    Client Spotlight: Crescend Technologies
    For more than 41 years, Crescend Technologies has been a premier manufacturer of high-power RF amplifier systems. After years of growth, an acquisition, and the development of new technologies, the...
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    The Top 25 Things We're Doing During Stay-At-Home
    As “Stay-at-Home” continues, we’re all making good use of our time. We’re also eager for things to do. So we recently asked our team what new or different things they...
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    My Essential Marketing Tips, Part 8
    In honor of our the recent 25th anniversary of Pepper Group, I’ve been posting marketing tips every month. Here are two more things I’ve learned since founding Pepper Group.
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    Online Pricing Tool Launch: Website Design and Ad Campaign—EconPTW
    If you pursue government contracts, you’re probably familiar with the term Price to Win (PTW). It’s an involved and detailed process that uncovers the likely winning bidding range, based on...
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    Street Sweeper Product Launch: Multimedia Campaign and Website Design—RegenX
    Street Sweeper Product Launch: Multimedia Campaign and Website Design—RegenX The Challenge Elgin Sweeper had just completed a highly involved and detailed effort to provide the ultimate user experience in regenerative air sweeping....
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    Cut Flowers Company Launch: Website Design and Identity—BloomStudios
    When one of the largest growers and distributors of seeds and ornamental crops in the world decided to launch a brand new division, one dedicated to cut flowers, they needed...
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    Law Firm Talent Marketing and New Employee Materials—Coplan + Crane
    Coplan + Crane is a personal injury law firm in Oak Park with a great team of experienced attorneys and legal professionals who are devoted to making the world safer...
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    Software Developer Website Design, Collateral and Video—TmaxSoft
    Software Developer Website Design, Collateral and Video—TmaxSoft The Challenge TmaxSoft is a global software innovator founded on the principle that there is always a better way. By creating better technology solutions for...
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    Engineering Company Rebranding—Ciorba Group
    Ciorba Group delivers engineering solutions that add value to communities. They have vast expertise and provide top-notch service and results. What they didn’t have—until recently—was a brand identity that truly...
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    Open For Business
    For almost all of our 25 years we’ve been sending out our PepperMill newsletter. During that time there have been plenty of ups and downs, but never before have we...
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    25 of the Oddest Things You Can Buy on Amazon
    For our 25th anniversary we’ve been sharing our favorite “top 25” lists. For our 25th anniversary we also bought a giant inflatable duck from Amazon. Amazingly, that’s not close to...
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    Client Spotlight: Olds Products
    Olds Products is the largest store brand mustard manufacturer in North America—family owned and operated for 122 years. The company has made a name for itself through consistent quality and...
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    Let Your Personality Shine
    A few months ago, Pepper Group turned 25 years old. I looked back and created a list of the most important things I have learned about marketing. I’m delighted to...
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    Collision Repair Center Talent Marketing—Gerber Collision and Glass
    Collision Repair Center Talent Marketing—Gerber Collision and Glass The Challenge The auto collision repair industry is suffering from a talent shortage—there just aren’t enough experienced and new technicians, estimators and other professionals...
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    Software Solutions Video, Website Design and Collateral—RedMane Technology
    RedMane creates software that improves business and lives. The company works with a level of purpose and integrity that’s quite unique, and genuinely cares about people. This includes employees, clients,...
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    The Top 25 Things To Do At Home
    We are all staying at home. If you are like us, that means you’re already desperately looking for things to do. One of the things we are doing is collecting...
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    Client Spotlight: EconPTW
    If you pursue government contracts, you’re probably familiar with the term Price to Win (PTW). It’s an involved and detailed process that uncovers the likely winning bidding range, based on...
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    25 Pieces of Marketing Advice
    A few months ago Pepper Group turned 25 years old. I looked back and created a list of the most important things I have learned about marketing. I’m delighted to...
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    The Top 25 Highest Grossing Movies
    They say the only two things that are certain, are death and taxes. Well, here’s two more: movie prices will continue to rise, and movie box office records will continue...
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    Client Spotlight: RedMane
    RedMane is a software solutions and systems integration firm that helps human services, healthcare and commercial organizations address their most complex challenges.
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    Creating a Marketing Message
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Kensing

“I’d like to thank you for all your help. We could not have had a successful NYSCC 2022 without you and your team!”

Rebecca Belmer, Key Account Manager
Kensing

Rockfon

“Dear All – I wanted to write and say a huge thanks for helping deliver this video for us, it’s a major step forward! Roll on the next one.”

Warren Dudding
Rockfon

Ciorba Group

“The brochures turned out fantastic! I was so excited to see them this morning when I came back from vacation. Love them so much! Thank you and the whole Pepper Team for all your hard work and creativity!”

Holly L. Ryan, Marketing Manager
Ciorba Group

Bronswick Benjamin P.C. 2

“If you want creative and innovative ideas, Pepper Group is fantastic. Also, their talent marketing work is top notch. We used Pepper Group to help us with core values creation, unique signage, awards programs and much more. I can truly say that Pepper Group has been a big contributor to improving our firm’s culture.”

Jeff Bronswick, Managing Partner
Bronswick Benjamin P.C.

Hitchcock Design Group

“We appreciated the custom process and approach that Pepper Group took to helping us create our brand platform. Due to the time and effort that they spent with us, as well as our clients during that process, they already understood our culture which allowed us to transition seamlessly into having them develop our new brochure and website.”

Dawn Jones, Marketing Coordinator
Hitchcock Design Group

Envista Forensics 2

“I just received my personalized “Stronger than Ever” box. Please tell management that it was such a thrill to open that I stopped and then shared it with my wife! In Dale Carnegie’s book, How To Win Friends And Influence People, he says that seeing one’s name in print (on the outside of the box) is a thrilling event. A name tag, a coffee cup and of course the ever important business cards were icing on the cake! Thanks for that cool, personalized experience. That’s what I get from Apple products!”

Thanks for a good transition in brand name.  I’m excited about our future.

Chris Andres, PE, CFEI, Senior Project Engineer, Mechanical/Electrical
Envista Forensics

MCEDC

“Thank you so much. You offer such outstanding event staging service … I know I don’t have to worry about anything with the sound, lights and technology.”

Jean Schober, Vice President
MCEDC

Eclipse

“Thanks so much for doing this for us. You have no idea how good it feels to have a website that looks awesome, the content is legit, everything looks awesome. We really appreciate it.”

Nikki Martin Kobiljak, Client Happiness Officer
Eclipse

Kensing

“Website looks amazing guys!!! Sent to my family and it’s already been shared across the world. Big family 😉.”

Eshani Burdick, Director, Sulfates & Specialty Esters
Kensing

RedMane Technology

“I was so excited when I saw the video. This is just outstanding. We loved every minute of it.”

Tony Lakier, President
RedMane Technology

BAI

“I just wanted to pass along a thanks and nice work to the Pepper team on the DEI piece. I know we’re still finalizing some stuff on the backend, but I shared the page with the managing directors over research and they both loved it.”

Tina Saigh, Senior Marketing Manager - Research
BAI

Technetics Group

“I had a meeting with our analytics team yesterday and wanted to pass along the good report. They said this was one of the best web redesign projects they had seen. Great job on all the redirects, meta tags, alt-tags, etc. Everything looked good from an SEO and analytics standpoint.

So, KUDOS TO THE TEAM!! ”

Lea Johnson, Marketing Manager
Technetics Group

Essendant

“Really appreciate your quick turnaround, great service, collaboration and partnership!!!!!”

Dianne Lucca, Manager, Digital Services-Email
Essendant

Rockfon

“I love it and couldn’t be happier with the final product! The Pepper team did a fantastic job, and it was a pleasure working with you all.”

Kari Pandilidis, Marketing Communications Manager
Rockfon

Gerber Collision & Glass

“We knew we had a great place to work, and a lot to offer new team members. Pepper Group helped us pull it all together with a cohesive message, and tools and tactics that allow us to communicate that message effectively. I’m a satisfied customer!”

R.J. Gerber, Marketing Communications Manager
Gerber Collision & Glass

Senior Business Development Manager Omron Automation

“We are getting great feedback on the event itself, and you helped us to make it such a success!!!”

Keith Kersten, Senior Business Development Manager
Omron Automation

Envista Forensics

“I haven’t been shy with our internal team in ‘singing the praises’ of your entire team—it’s been a pleasure to work with everyone at your company and frankly you’ve made this massive rebrand project accomplishable.”

Jennifer Gaster, Vice President, Marketing
Envista Forensics

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