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3 Tips to Building a Tour with Impact

If you want to attract visitors to your region and build a reputation as a destination that people will get behind, you need to think about initiating a curated tour for your target audience.  A curated tour can be a powerful way to promote special amenities, resources, or features of your area in a way

Digital Trends to Watch in 2020

At the dawn of a new decade, we stand at the precipice of what lies ahead, while taking stock in years gone by, where so much in the digital landscape we know today came into its own. Social media, voice search, user experience, artificial intelligence, and even the modern digital sales funnel all where fanciful

Bringing Home The Gold

I’m going to let you in on a secret; there are two key components to keeping an advertising agency alive—fresh, impeccably-crafted, compelling creative, and great clients who recognize the value of that level of creative. How do you secure both of these coveted traits for your agency? Awards. Winning awards puts a spotlight on your

Top E-Mail Marketing Tactics For 2020

While e-mail marketing may not be as sexy as producing a million-dollar TV spot, it is the workhorse on customer engagement. In fact, Creative Energy is producing content and distributing hundreds of e-mail marketing campaigns to B2B and B2C targets each year. Why? Because penny for penny, smart e-mail marketing is the most effective tactic

Who’s Eatin’ Your Food Before You Do?

November 29, 2019 Who’s Eatin’ Your FoodBefore You Do? Tony Treadway Barriers to Restaurant Delivery? Third-party deliveries are some of the most important of the day for restaurant operators. According to Technomic, operators are experiencing a 20% increase in delivery sales this year. Yet one of the big barriers for continued growth is the integrity

Creative Energy Earns Multiple Awards from GRAPHIS Including Agency Branding

Graphis, a leading global authority on advertising design, released its selections for the 2020 Advertising Annual of the top creative work from advertising agencies worldwide. For Creative Energy, the latest new release of the publication saw the advertising firm triple its number of award-winning entries over the previous year.   Graphis Magazine has been an

River Tourism Dollars Awaits the Region

The International Rafting Federation did something unexpected back in June 2019. In announcing its Top 10 Rivers, it picked my hometown’s Nolichucky. Only three of the ten rivers named were in the U.S. So why aren’t bigger crowds of rafting enthusiasts flocking to Erwin, TN? Because we’re just getting started on raising awareness of this