Brian Stier
Digital Marketing Specialist
As digital presence and an authentic voice continue to be pillars of success, Brian enjoys taking on new challenges and scenarios. In his role at Blue Flame Thinking, he’s our go-to resource for analytics, SEO, and social strategy. Throughout his career, Brian has exercised a growth hacking mentality to stretch his skills in ideation, strategy, infrastructure, design, marketing, and outreach to create impact and community engagement. He’s also a teacher and loves the in-depth brainstorming sessions the vocation allows with diverse industry professionals. It all sums to a quiet confidence that he can raise the bar for our clients and our organization.
“Typically, markets are saturated, so presentation and presence are critical in long-term marketing efforts.”
Fast Facts
- Would love to have a beer with John Carmack to learn where VR is headed.
- Frequents YouTube, Anantech.com and SearchEngineLand to keep his game razor sharp.
- Would love to see analytics for sites like Amazon and YouTube.
- Music tastes run toward Polyphia, Tool, Rage and other 90s rock/metal, old school hip hop, chill, and retrowave.
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What You Should Know About the Latest Google Core Updates (March 2024)
In March of this year, Google rolled out one of its major core updates. These updates can have a significant impact on website rankings. Understanding what they are and how they work is important for marketing and website teams. What is a Google core update? A Google core update is a significant enhancement to the…
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A Closer Looks at Google’s New Consent Mode
There’s been a lot of noise around Google’s new Consent Mode feature changes. It’s important you understand how it works and the impact it will have on your marketing initiatives. Version 2 of the Consent Mode is now mandatory to continue using ad personalization features. How The New Google Consent Mode Works Google Consent Mode…
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Managing an Effective PPC Marketing Campaign
Managing pay-per-click (PPC) marketing campaigns can be time-consuming and challenging, but following our easy guide can help enhance your campaigns. PPC, also known as SEM, or search engine marketing, drives in-market traffic looking for your products or services. Ensuring your campaigns are set up properly can help optimize ad spending and return on investment. This…
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Leverage the Power of Machine Learning and AI for Companies
Using AI in business is gaining serious traction. Unless you’ve been living in the remote woods of Canada for the last year (and the Yukon is b-e-a-utiful, by the way), you’ve seen artificial intelligence exploding everywhere. This blog includes a primer on how AI works, how you’ve been using AI for years (even if you…
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Email Marketing: Best Practices & Pitfalls
Email marketing is a powerful tool and a critical part of your channel mix. Understanding its role within your overall plan and identifying key strategies to optimize your efforts will help set you up for success. Planning Your Email Marketing Campaign If you haven’t started email marketing yet, you can crawl, but running an email…
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The Importance of a Website Traffic Analysis
Your website is the most visible view of your brand and products or services. Prospects and clients are visiting to learn more about you and engage. Understanding your website demographics and analytics is a critical step in using data to make decisions. Another big benefit of using data-driven decision-making is content optimization, which allows you…
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Key Considerations for Website Redesigns
As a digital marketing agency, we’ve built hundreds of websites. Each one has its own unique story, brand, and challenges. Whether it’s a new website or a redesign meant to refresh an online footprint, there are several elements that drive our process for designing websites that help position our clients for success. Here are the…
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Tips For a Successful Marketing Campaign
As a digital marketing partner to our clients, we’ve seen it all when it comes to service and product campaigns. Some clients have previous campaign results to review, some have personas and KPIs and others have just started creative briefs. We often see our entry point as solving a puzzle. We dig into the information…
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What is ChatGPT? An AI Content Creation Tool from A Marketing Agency Perspective
There’s been quite a bit of chatter around ChatGPT over the last several weeks. Like any company, we have a range of fascinations with it. We have those who jumped on right away and started testing it for their kids’ projects or just for fun. We have those who are waiting to see what happens…
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Navigating the Ins and Outs of Social Media Video
Social media is full of intriguing and informative videos. You’ll see everything from short, rapid-fire entertaining clips to longer ones for more informed learning. Styles vary with the latest trends. It can be hard to determine which type is best for your situation. There’s no one right way to produce these. Everything from your environment…
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