Branding and Design Services Made Simple: The Forge & Spark Brand Content Kit
How Forge & Spark’s Brand Content Kit helps clients show up with consistency, impact, and authenticity—delivering a full visual identity system in a single week.
How Forge & Spark’s Brand Content Kit helps clients show up with consistency, impact, and authenticity—delivering a full visual identity system in a single week.
How B Corps and purpose-led brands are refocusing the marketing landscape, through the lens of purpose and authenticity.
Forge & Spark Media is a content agency dedicated to serving purpose-driven brands including non-profits, social ventures, and fellow B Corps. While that description might
Here are 8 essential content marketing strategies we’re using to help our clients grow their purpose-led businesses in 2024.
Content marketing is always changing. It’s becoming more formalized, more targeted, and more efficient. It’s a part of most marketing operations. In fact, it’s getting
A Simple Framework for Nailing Your Brand’s Voice and Tone. And Why You Need To. Did you ever get into trouble as a kid? If
It’s mighty tempting these days to use artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Jasper in creating content to market your business. But what about the question of content quality?
High-quality content that establishes credibility, transparency and tight bonds with target audiences is truly a must today. Our top story starters and tips for your purpose-led brand.
Discover the five main challenges that B Corps and purpose-led brands face when it comes to marketing, plus strategies on how to overcome them.
These essential GA4 features that can revolutionize your content marketing strategy, boost engagement and drive conversions.
Great design—integrated in all the right ways—can level up your content marketing to help tell better stories.
Story packages are strategic, story-first, and uber-efficient way to plan and produce content
Studies show that boring B2B marketing simply doesn’t work. Here’s what does work for optimal B2B content marketing.
While many established thought leaders have their followers hooked on their every word, if you’re just getting started or looking to grow your followership, consider creating an impact campaign to amplify your thought leadership content.
How to use a content audit to get to know your audience, find great stories, improve SEO, and plan for your next content marketing campaign
We’re sharing some of the specific reasons you’ll want to consider behind going live, and offer tips on how to set yourself up for success.
Struggling to stand out in a sea of same-same content? Here are three thoughtful considerations for making your content more genuinely YOU.
For killer content marketing, you need a killer SEO strategy. Here’s how you and your teams can stay up-to-date on the latest SEO trends in 2023 and beyond.
Need high-quality photos for social media? Here are 10 tips for taking top-notch photos with your phone.
We have a proven process for guiding purpose-driven brands and organizations through identifying their brand stories, and crafting the right content marketing and social media strategies.
If your branding doesn’t look or feel like you want it to on social media or online, try creating an Online-specific Visual Style Guide. Here’s why.
Think of the content audit as a tool for planning future content. We’re sharing here our own tried and trusted process.
I have worked for 15+ years both at agencies and client side—and I’ve noticed that no matter where I go, operational challenges tend to be consistent, regardless of company size.
Why did our content marketing agency spend more than a year working to join the B Corp movement? Because purpose matters.
A strong social media strategy is one of the best weapons in any business arsenal, but often, hashtags get left to the last minute—or overlooked altogether. But they’re a vital part of any truly killer social media plan.
Learn fast and easy ways on how to use AI tools for all your content creation needs. AI tools can provide you with content creation support.
In his 1973 book Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence, Jacques Cousteau tells a charming story. “Our friend Gilpatric … brought an octopus home and
This post sets out to underline some of the benefits of doing a brand refresh and outlines our key recommendations for making the refresh process as efficient and effective as possible.
It’s no secret that the web and the world is filled with vast amounts of content. It’s overflowing with it, in fact, and if you’re a creator it might just be seeping into your dreams as well as waking hours (anyone else having the dream about NEVER finishing that endless blog post?)
Your brand is not just logos, colors, and tagline. Your brand’s visual ecosystem is made up of all the different elements that come together to create a unique experience for your customers, regardless of where they’ve encountered your content.
You’ve heard of Instagram Reels. But how exactly can Reels fit into your content strategy? We’ve combined some basics to get you started from structure, types, and how they can work for your brand.
At our content marketing agency, we’ve heard clients express varying expectations when it comes to working with a content partner. Nearly everyone, though, wants to eliminate their version of the content sweats—with expertise and guidance on planning, creating, publishing, and promoting the right content for their brand.
Better marketing messaging is about getting the right message to the right audience, and compelling them to act on it. It’s a bold splash of colour in that grey sea. With better messaging, you can tell that a piece of content was created both strategically and passionately, with a little spark of joy or impulse, by a real human person who has a photo of their kid and their cat pinned to their bulletin board.
As a B2B (business to business) leader, you need the best way to not only reach and engage your audience, but also to convert that audience to solid leads as efficiently as possible.
We get why you might not be sure how “content marketing” differs from “digital marketing.” We’re content folks, and we’re asked all the time. Here’s our take on how they fit together (and why they always should!)
You can succeed on social media, even if you’re too busy to spend much time on it. Don’t just throw up your content—set better goals! But do you know how to set better goals to ensure your success?
If you’re involved in business, you’re all too aware that you need customers to survive and thrive. When done well, personas help you understand what someone needs from your content, product or service.
As humans, we find ourselves telling stories naturally, every day, to explain things that happen in our lives. We create narratives to find meaning. Let’s face it: all brands ARE NOT doing a good job of telling stories inclusively, or accessibly.
People will forget pretty much everything about your brand, except how they feel about it. But what does it take to evoke the right feelings in your brand storytelling?
Where do you find your spark? And if you’ve lost it, how might you re-ignite it?
Of the 7.5 million blog posts published every day, only a small fraction are good enough to capture and hold audience attention. When was the last time you were engrossed in an amazing blog post? A post you found so perfectly well-crafted, with exactly the information you needed, in language that spoke to you, and images or video that enhanced the appeal so that you read it all the way through to the end? Maybe you even liked it so much, you shared with a friend or colleague.
What exactly is purpose? And how exactly do you know if you’re driven by it? Here’s a look at why — and how — to get to the bottom of your ‘why’.
Which ad type is best for you? It all depends on your objectives and your desired level of customization. We’ve broken down the differences to make your choice easier.
Success for purpose-driven organizations is often about how well storytelling can connect with customers and win their loyalty. Here are a few that have found a formula for success.
We all stumble as we go about our marketing work. Take a look at some of the most common marketing stumbles we’ve compiled here. We promise it’ll make you feel better.
Over the years, we’ve seen messy websites and social media channels. Every business, and every project, needs a unifying visual strategy that tells a consistent story—one that feels authentic, clear and actionable. And yet, so few do. But how can you fix it? It starts with a brand visual audit.
If you sometimes struggle with content ideas, lack of resources to tackle the content, or you’re just stuck, you’re not alone. We’ve also been there, and we’ve got some advice for you in tackling some of the comment content marketing struggles
To entice customers and attract clients to your business, you need a plan that lets them know about your products and services and what makes them unique. That’s why marketing firms exist.
Content marketing is only as effective as our understanding of our customers’ needs. And in this past year, we’ve seen compassion and empathy played out as a result of the stress and strain of global events. From a content marketing perspective, there is a focus on core human needs like self-care and social connection, with a hearty side of kindness on all fronts.
Do you believe that a steady stream of fresh content is the sure antidote to all marketing woes? It could be hard to believe if you’re not achieving your desired results from your content. Here are some common reasons your content marketing efforts may be falling flat, and fast fixes you can implement now.