Integrated Communication
Explore an integrated communication strategy to ensure brand consistency across all channels. Connect the dots of your communications with your business.

Own Your Quirks
I am the most unathletic person you will ever meet. If you don’t believe me, watch the video of me rollerblading—it’s on my Instagram. I’m

We Don’t Do Marketing
(If I hear this one more time, I’m gonna throat punch someone.) If I had a dollar for every time a technical or contracting company

It’s all about the hustle
PR seems like a sexy field, am I right? If your older like me, then you think of Samantha from Sex in the City and

Cultivating client relationships
The most important relationships in your business are the ones you already have. We spend so much time searching for the next big thing, new

Employees & Social Media
The use of social media is a hot topic around our office lately. We have a social media policy at 8THIRTYFOUR, it is all of

The future of social media
I had a friend pose a question to me this past week on the future of social media. Will it remain an important tool for
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It’s the work no one notices or thanks you for. It’s evenings and weekends spent cleaning, organizing, filing, fixing, moving, and trying to catch up.
It’s calling the City because your garbage can is missing a lid, or waiting for the security company to come because there is a fault in your system, it’s shoveling the sidewalk every morning and weekends...it’s replacing bulbs in lights, scrubbing scuff marks off walls, washing windows...and it’s never ending.
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