Industry Insights
Ideas to Inspire
- Forbes
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
Marketing is essential for promoting and expanding all businesses, including agencies. While these firms execute plenty of marketing campaigns and measure ROI for their clients, it can be tricky to devote enough time and resources to determining their own.
- The Business Journals
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
The role of a leader isn’t simply to drive profit and give orders to subordinates. A strong leader can inspire enthusiasm and loyalty in their teams, driving passion for the company’s product or service.
- Forbes
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
In today’s digital age, it’s vital for your small business to have a fully functional website to attract and retain customers.
- Forbes
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
Content marketing is a great way to get in front of and bring value to consumers without going overboard on your sales pitch.
- Adweek
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
Instead of text-based searches and sifting through pages of results, visual search enables enhanced, modern interfaces that help curate and review buying options faster, which comes naturally to Gen Z and millennials.
- The Business Journals
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
After the events of 2020, every business leader is focused on being better prepared for the unexpected. One effective way to do this is to conduct a scenario analysis, a useful planning tool in which businesses create an action plan for the “what-ifs” they may encounter.
- The Business Journals
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
First impressions are incredibly important — and are also made incredibly quickly. Studies have shown that we make judgments about new people in a matter of seconds.
- Adweek
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
There was a time when trying on clothing either meant a trip to a brick-and-mortar store, where you filled your arms with options and made your way into the dressing room, or ordered a few pieces online and hoping for the best.
- The Business Journals
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
Middle-market companies are in a unique position when it comes to seeking growth. While these companies may not have the immediate brand recognition of an industry giant, they often have the resources to run a multichannel marketing campaign.
- Forbes
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro
Some agency clients aren’t able to address important questions their marketing partners need answered in order to devise the best strategy to meet their needs.

Resources
Hawthorne has been a leader and pioneer in Brand Response Advertising and Direct Response Marketing for 35 years.
Our rich history of measuring audience response and applying data-driven attribution and analytics to optimize campaigns provides us with an unparalleled depth and breadth of experience. Some of that experience is shared below in this Resources section.
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