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Casey O'Quinn

Casey founded Gravity Digital in 2000 after serving as the Internet Services Director for a Nashville-based Ad Agency. He's a rare breed that operates both left and right brain, so along with oversight of the company he's active in the creative process for our clients.
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I'm Worried a Marketing Company Won't "Get" What We Do

Casey O'Quinn / October 25, 2016 / Sales & Marketing

Your business is a special snowflake, and we don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. You’ve spent years nursing it to health. You’ve crafted an intensive understanding of the clients you serve, and you’ve polished your brand identity enough to make it gleam. It’s understandable...

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Wowza! This Local Garden Center is Killing It with Online Advertising

Casey O'Quinn / October 20, 2016 / Sales & Marketing

Building an online presence is like creating a new planet complete with its own characters, stories, and evolution. Gravity Digital got to create online magic in the shadow of a business that was, in itself, its own magical world. We began a campaign for The Arbor Gate Garden...

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Stop Goofing Off, Create a Real Marketing Plan with a Marketing Agency

Casey O'Quinn / October 18, 2016 / Sales & Marketing

These days, it’s all too common to apply a marketing degree that might as well come from the middle ages to the online world. Putting your 1994 diploma to work on a 2016 campaign is synonymous with letting your favorite 10-year-old nephew manage your strategy. In fact, knowing...

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Is Your Marketing Company Keeping Your Sales Team Busy?

Casey O'Quinn / October 11, 2016 / Sales & Marketing

The world’s best salespeople have customer relationship management and field sales qualifications, not marketing degrees. Even so, it’s probably your sales team who profiles your clients and decides how and why to follow up on leads; a role they’re simply not trained to fulfill.

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How a Local Bakery Used Online Advertising to Double Holiday Sales

Casey O'Quinn / October 6, 2016 / Sales & Marketing

The world’s brand giants can be found right at the forefront of public consciousness whenever the nation is celebrating. The feel-good factor of the holidays makes them the perfect time to introduce clients to your business. Your brand will bring their lives plenty of gladness...

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4 Reasons Why a Digital Marketing Agency Should be Your Next Hire

Casey O'Quinn / October 4, 2016 / Sales & Marketing

In marketing’s dark ages, all you needed to stitch together a campaign was textbook knowledge of a field that rarely changed. These days, marketing gurus need two new traits: flexibility and a constant learning curve. The internet’s marketing requirements change every single...

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A Digital Marketing Agency Can Take Your Business to the Next Level

Casey O'Quinn / September 29, 2016 / Sales & Marketing

Wired magazine announced the extinction of traditional advertising back in ’94. Ever since its torturous death, marketing departments have adopted two broad solutions:

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How to Apply the 80-20 Principle to Website Ideas

Casey O'Quinn / September 8, 2016 / Website Best Practices

Clutter is as catastrophic to web design as it is to fine art. Present your audience with every website element including the kitchen sink and you’ll earn none of their focus. This is only one of the many ways the Pareto Principle evidences itself in the online marketing world....

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What Does SEO Stand for? (and other questions you're embarrassed to ask)

Casey O'Quinn / September 1, 2016 / Website Best Practices

Having a business school qualification doesn't necessarily prepare you for online marketing 2.0. To succeed in the digital age, you must evolve at the same lightning-quick pace that internet marketing does, a difficult achievement if you're new to the field.

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ROI Online: A Case for Inbound Marketing

Casey O'Quinn / August 9, 2016 / Sales & Marketing

When many of the world's most successful blogs make their profits via inbound marketing, it’s safe to assume it’s an effective tool. Mark Manson’s site has achieved its intention so well that it’s known for the quality of its content more than its role as a lead nurturing tool....

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