The modern workspace is evolving. Workers are fleeing fluorescent overhead lighting, open floor plans and bumbling water cooler conversations for the comfort of at-home pajama pants and the sweet, sweet nothings of their own lo-fi Spotify playlist. And who needs coworkers when you have fluffy assistants to keep you company? While no one will judge […]
From elevator pitches to suit-and-tie presentations (complete with visual aids), sales pitches are part and parcel of getting your product in front of clients. But there are certainly secret ingredients to the perfect sales pitch — whether you’re persuading peckish passersby to visit your food truck or convincing a room full of grocery execs to […]
Keeping Up with the Coal Crew: Monopoly Edition Ah, Monopoly! The classic childhood game that brought families and friends together only to summarily and systematically tear them apart. But don’t get us wrong, it’s riveting gameplay. Especially for those particularly adept at brutally draining the spirits and coffers of their opponents — and those with […]
Today’s brands simply can’t avoid social media. Early 2023 predictions estimate that there will be 4.89 billion social media users worldwide by the end of the year.1 That said, customers are rarely spending their free time idling through shopping malls and food courts these days. Rather, utilizing socials provides you with a key opportunity to […]
2023: The Year of Sound Effects, Airbrushed Nails and Ignoring Venmo Requests For the January 2023 edition of KUWTCC, we asked our team to be trend meteorologists — to don their blue raincoats and baseball caps and forge into the chaotic hurricane of Culture™ with Joe Snedeker-level abandon. As always, we asked our posse to […]
With 2022 coming to an end, I’d like to take a few minutes to reflect with you all. As I thought about where to begin with this message, I admittedly struggled a bit. Then, I remembered our annual end-of-year team meeting was in a few days and had an idea. At the meeting, I had […]
Coal Creative’s 2022 Highlight Reel Starbucks cups are red, Mariah Carey has returned to the airwaves and mini marshmallows are flying off the shelves. The holiday season is in full swing. The Coal Crew has a lot to celebrate. Our team created countless memories this year, and our highlight reel is bursting at the seams […]
Video content is dominating the internet, and the phenomenon isn’t new — video streaming accounted for 73% of internet traffic as far back as 2017, and the Cisco Video Networking Index predicts that this metric will increase to 82% by the end of 2022. But, statistics aside, consumers just like watching videos, so posting video […]
A Coal Crew Thanksgiving: 12 Pet Turkeys, Tums, and a Knife-Wielding Corgi Have you been invited to yet another Friendsgiving potluck that, due to the collective fear of undercooking a 30-pound bird, will feature mostly desserts? However you plan to spend Turkey Day 2022, we can almost guarantee that your ritual won’t be as bizarre […]
In 2022, building a new website has a lot in common with renovating your kitchen. You can do it yourself with kits, time and a ton of YouTube videos, or you can pay professionals to do it for you. Let’s assume for now that you want to do it yourself and start at the beginning. […]