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The 7 Partners Your Brand Needs

While we all strive to wear all the hats and do all the things, we also all get by with a little help from our friends. Sure, you have a powerhouse team with great skills—but by bringing in partners, you may be pleasantly surprised by the wealth of new ideas and new energy that partnering can offer your team.

True Konfessions with Kristen: Fight Content Chaos with a Content Inventory & Audit

Dear Kristen, Our organization’s website suffers from “benign neglect”—we update content intermittently, on no particular schedule and with no plan for where the content should live in the site architecture. Basically, if someone in our organization...

Does Music Really Matter?

Have you ever been able to guess which brand’s commercial is on TV without seeing or hearing its name? Have you ever found yourself teary-eyed during every single sad moment in Forrest Gump, even though you’ve seen it a hundred times? Don’t thank Tom Hanks (well, ok, you can thank Tom Hanks). Thank music.

The Marketing Juice that's Worth the Squeeze

Vitamin P8: The Marketing Juice that's worth the squeeze. Marketing experts have been using the 4 Ps (product, price, place, promotion) since the 1960s. E. Jerome McCarthy introduced the concept of the 4Ps in his book Basic Marketing: A Managerial...

LMD Consulting: 2017 Insights & Thank You

Greetings friends and colleagues, The year 2017 brought more challenging and rewarding consulting projects. Here is a quick summary of my personal insights from the year. The Balanced Scorecard Works.
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LMD Announces New Contract with the United States Coast Guard

Laurel, MD — LMD, a full-service communications firm, announces the addition of the United States Coast Guard (Coast Guard) to its client roster. LMD was selected by the Coast Guard Recruiting Command to develop and implement national advertising in...

TEDCO Selects LMD to Redesign its Website

Laurel, MD — LMD, a full-service strategic communications firm, announces the addition of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) to its client roster. TEDCO selected LMD to develop a new website to showcase TEDCO as a leader for...

Want to Get More Web Traffic? Then Get Fresh (content, that is)

Remember that time you launched a website? Take a trip with us in the Wabac Machine . Six months ago, your organization launched its beautiful new website. Ah, what a day that was. The birds were singing, the sun was shining. Everything seemed full...

What Makes "Good Design"?

If I had a dime for every time I asked myself this question, I’d be a bazillionaire. In my 18 years at LMD, I’ve worked my way up from a Junior Designer to the Creative Director of Web Services. While my medium has mostly been two-dimensional design...

Is it Time for a Rebrand? 3 Ways to Know

At LMD, we don’t shy away from the tough questions. Here’s one of the toughest questions we ask our clients when they are considering a rebrand: “Does your company’s brand accurately represent your culture, purpose, and promise?” Rebranding shouldn’...

True Konfessions with Kristen: The Mysterious Millennial Mind

Dear Kristen, We’re in a vertical with a core customer base that’s typically in the 50+ age range. From reviewing our customer data, we know that there are Millennials who currently use our products and are pretty confident that there’s the...

Why You Need Video and How to Get Started

WHY YOU NEED A VIDEO YouTube has 1 billion active users each month. Let’s pause for a minute to let that sink in: 1 BILLION ACTIVE USERS. EACH. MONTH. Video is the easiest--and by far, the most engaging--way to communicate with your audience, to the...