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5 Easy Ways To Make Your Business Stand Out On Google Using SEO

Incorporating SEO principles when designing your website, sharing content on your socials, and tagging your photos and video content is the best way to guarantee that members of your ideal audience see your business and understand what services your business offers. 

Some media specialists are experts in SEO best practices but you don’t have to hire an SEO expert for your small business. Our media specialists and copywriters are trained on current SEO best practices and are ready to write amazing copy for your business. 

Here are 5 ways to incorporate SEO best practices into your business website, copywriting, and online presence. 

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7 Brilliant Tips to Prepare for Your First In-Studio Photo Shoot 

If you are ready to book a professional photographer to capture your acting, modeling, or professional headshots, you may wonder what to expect on the day of the shoot. Working with a professional photographer in a photography studio should be fun and exciting! 

It’s totally normal to feel a bit anxious before your shoot. That’s why we’ve compiled this list of 7 tips to help you prepare for your first photo shoot in a photography studio, like ours in Norman, Oklahoma.

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Spivey Media X Uncanny Art House

Spivey Media is pleased to announce its partnership with Uncanny Art House in Norman Oklahoma! Uncanny Art House, formerly Uncanny Alley, evolved from a back alley speakeasy into a highly accessible facility and art gallery along the Walker Arts District Main Street Corridor in Norman. 

The mission of Uncanny Art House is to provide artistic, educational, networking, and exhibition opportunities to artists of all ages. Uncanny Art House also offers studio and coworking access and much more. 

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How to Navigate Rebranding- 4 Tips for Business Owners

Thoughtful branding is essential to the health of your business. A branding kit includes your finalized business logo, color palette, fonts, brand tone, voice, and other graphics, imagery, and messages.

In this article, we will let you know what your branding kit should include and why each element is so important.  When you’re ready to create yours, be sure to consult our professionals to help you generate your very own branding kit or rebranding kit! 

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How to Hire and Work With A Videographer [A Step-By-Step Guide For Business Owners]

As a business owner looking to create video content for your brand or business, it is common to be unsure where to start.

We love providing helpful tips to business owners in Oklahoma. That’s why we’ve compiled this step-by-step guide on hiring and working with a videographer or producer to create video content for your business. 

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8 Ways a Creative Marketing Agency Can Help Your Small Business Start-Up

Consulting with and hiring a trustworthy creative marketing agency could be the smartest thing you do when starting up your small business. Whether you keep your creative marketing and media agency on a retainer or hire them for individual jobs, developing strong bonds with a creative marketing agency is a great way to cover your bases. Having a creative marketing agency on-call means that you can focus on your areas of expertise in your industry and you don’t have to learn a whole new industry. (That’s where we come in!)

Read to the end to learn 8 reasons you’ll want to have a creative media specialist or marketeer on call. 

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How Hiring A Film Producer Can Help You Create Digital Content For Your Business 

A film producer oversees film production. They either represent a film production company or they work independently. A film producer works to plan various aspects of a film shoot including pre-production (planning) stages, planning a budget, establishing a shooting schedule, and finalizing a script. 


Read to the end to find out how hiring a film producer can help you create digital content for your business, even if this is your first time making a video for your brand.

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5 Ways Hiring A Professional Copywriter Can Take Pressure Off Your Staff- Tips for Small Businesses

As a business owner, you and your staff do a lot. In fact, you do it all. Running a small business is both rewarding and overwhelming, especially in the first few years when you are building from the ground up. If you have a family at home or responsibilities outside of your business, it can be even more challenging to find balance and carve out time to reach your marketing goals. 

If you are a small business owner looking to take a few tasks off your plate, hiring a professional copywriter can help take the guesswork out of many of your business startup necessities.  Read on to find out how. 

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Real Estate Photography: Why You Need Great Photos To Sell Homes & How We Can Help

Whether you are a custom home building business, realtor, or private home seller, capturing high-quality photographs and assets for your business website or home listings is essential. 

Dynamic images of your demo home or new construction home make it possible for potential home buyers to not only view the photos of your real estate but also make it possible for the images to find your client through the Google algorithm when they search for homes that are similar to the one you are looking to sell. 

High-quality real estate photos are everything when it comes to a standout online listing. Read to the end to find out how the professionals at Spivey Media can help you take your real estate business to the next level. 

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5 Versatile Places To Take Memorable Photos in Oklahoma City

Whether you procrastinated on snapping graduation photos, need to liven up your Instagram grid with some high-quality photos, or would like to commemorate this summer with a couples’ photo shoot, there are some truly gorgeous FREE locations available in the Oklahoma City metro.

Celebrate your job promotion, your book release, or even just memorialize that new manicure with a photoshoot just for you! 

If you are looking to snap some fantastic photos in Oklahoma City, we’ve got you covered with 5 amazing places to take some unforgettable professional photographs for free. 

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Your Guide to Starting a YouTube Channel for Your Brand or Small Business + 10 Tips To Boost Engagement

YouTube is a rapidly growing social media platform that currently has 2.5 billion users worldwide. Users of all ages use YouTube to learn about new things, be entertained, listen to music, watch movies, and engage with groups of people who have similar interests.

Read to the end to discover how you can create a YouTube Channel for your brand or small business and see amazing growth and measure your return on this investment.

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3 Ways Dynamic Photographs Can Enhance Your Online Presence

High-quality, crisp, and clear images can enhance your business or brand’s online presence. Dynamic photographs improves user experience on your website, captivates your audience’s attention, and appeals to social media algorithms while boosting SEO for your web pages.


Read to the end to learn how dynamic images can upgrade your online presence, leading to higher conversions. 

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How Explainer Videos Can Help Your Business Bloom In 2024 

Generating video content for digital marketing has never been easier. Based on a survey by wyzowl.com, 91% of businesses use video as a marketing tool. If done well, video content can help your brand or business build trust, boost brand awareness, and engage consumers by building conversations around your brand. 


Here are three ways explainer videos and short-form video content can help you grow your business in 2024. 

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4 Powerful Digital Marketing Trends for 2024 & How To Keep Up

With technology advancing quickly every day, we know it can be a challenge staying current with every digital marketing trend. 


We know it can be frustrating trying to adjust to these rapid changes in online marketing, so here are four of 2024's hottest digital marketing trends and how to keep up without getting overwhelmed with the shifts. 

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5 Ways to Write an Effective Blog Post for Your Business Website

Consistently creating stellar blog posts can boost your business website ranking on the Google search page. Creating content relevant to your industry niche and incorporating the best keywords can help connect your business website with your target audience. Generating top-notch content is also a great way to establish trust with your future clients and present yourself as an expert in your industry. 
If you run a business in Oklahoma and are ready to write powerful blog posts to drive clients and leads to your website, read to the end to learn how. 

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5 Content Marketing Tips for Your Business Website

An effective digital marketing strategy is to create top-notch and valuable content for your audience and niche regularly. This works because it helps foster a sense of trustworthiness with your audience and establishes your business or brand as an expert or standard within your industry.


Creating great digital content can also help influence consumer’s habits and behaviors. Here are 5 ways you can do this.  

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5 Ways to Market Your Event Using Social Media

In 2024, it can be challenging to boost attendance for events and live music showcases. Many venues and event centers closed down or scaled back their operations during the pandemic, and venue owners still find it hard to generate a terrific turn out for events since many people have embraced staying at home on the weekends. 

Event promotion is its own industry, but you can do it yourself with a few of our helpful tips. 

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5 Ways Drone Footage Can Benefit Your Small Business

Drone technology is relatively new and totally exciting. We have two certified drone pilots on staff in our offices in Norman, Oklahoma and we work with a few other fantastic drone pilots who are passionate about the footage they capture. Drone videos allow for interesting footage that otherwise would be impossible or unbelievably costly to capture.

Here are 5 ways drone video footage can benefit your small business. 

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6 Social Media Tips and Tricks for Small Businesses [2023]

If you own or run a small business in Oklahoma, it’s possible that you run your own social media. We know small businesses and we know how busy you are trying to keep up with your day-to-day operations, sales, and staff while creating content and scheduling your social posts. 

We know you work hard to promote your business while offering a quality product or service, while keeping up with your personal life. That’s why we want to offer these 6 social media tips, tricks, and hacks to help you maintain your small business’s social media presence. 

Read to the end of this post to find out our 6 best social media tips for small business owners. 

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