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A Creative Experiment: Can Modern Tools Capture the Sound of Mardi Gras?

Mardi Gras has a sound long before it has a look.   You hear it before you see it. That first unmistakable trumpet blast of “Second Line” cutting through the humidity. Bass drums pulling you toward the corner. A rhythm that doesn’t ask permission. One note in the air and whatever you were doing five...
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A variety of New Orleans King Cakes from different bakeries including Manny Randazzo, Tartine, and Bon Temps, illustrating brand loyalty and Team Randazzo vs Team Dong Phuong debates during Carnival season.

What King Cake Season Teaches Us About Brand Loyalty (And Why Most Brands Miss It)

If you’ve spent more than five minutes in New Orleans during King Cake season, you already know this truth: People do not simply buy a king cake. They pledge allegiance. 🥇 Team Manny Randazzo. 🥇 Team Dong Phuong. 🥇 Team Haydel’s. 🥇 Team Antoine’s. 🥇 Team Walmart…? (Just kidding! 🤮) It gets intense. Weirdly intense....
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10-Step Checklist - Holiday Marketing For Your Business

10-Step Checklist: Holiday Marketing For Your Business

Is your business ready for the holidays? If you haven’t started thinking about how your business can drive sales and engagement this holiday season or just need a few tips, we’ve put together a brief checklist to help with your holiday marketing.     First, consider what your goals are for the holiday season: Sales...
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10 Essential Tips To Prepare Your Business For The Busy Season - HEROfarm Marketing and Public Relations New Orleans

10 Essential Tips To Prepare Your Business For The Busy Season

After a typically slow summer season, many businesses ramp up as the school year starts back and booming holiday seasons quickly approach. Is your company ready for the transition to more business? Don’t get caught off-guard. Use the remaining slow time to prepare for the busier season. Here’s a checklist of 10 business maintenance and marketing tips to...
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Vibrant illustration of a New Orleans restaurant and streetcar at sunset promoting New Orleans Restaurant Roulette, a free dining tool for New Orleans COOLinary created by HEROfarm Marketing & PR.

New Orleans Restaurant Roulette Returns for COOLinary’s 2025 Celebration

  Choosing where to eat in New Orleans is never easy. During COOLinary, it’s nearly impossible. That’s why HEROfarm has brought back New Orleans Restaurant Roulette, a playful web tool that helps diners decide where to eat with a simple spin. Created to make life easier, the free tool takes the pressure off the dining...
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Two friends lying in the middle of a dark, empty street in Lakeview, New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina. The street is quiet with no lights or visible activity, reflecting the stillness of the city.

Hurricane Katrina +20: The Day That Changed Everything (And How We’ve Changed Since)

Flashbulb memories. Psychologists use the term for moments burned into your brain with near-perfect clarity… where you were, what you were doing, the way the air felt. Some flashbulb memories are joyful. Others are jarring. For those of us from New Orleans or the Gulf Coast, we all have one from August 29, 2005. Mine...
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Living in The Era of Mass:Miss Personalization

Living in The Era of Mass/Miss Personalization

What happens when we try to automate connection We’re all trying to connect more… faster, broader, louder. But what happens when the tools built to scale connection start breaking it instead? We work in marketing, so we see a lot of pitches. Cold emails promising better SEO, stronger branding, game-changing lead gen tactics… You name...
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Why People Don’t Trust Marketers (And What We’re Doing About It)

You ever stumble across something so ridiculous, you have to read it twice just to believe it’s real? That’s exactly what happened to our creative director. While cleaning out a drawer, he found a five-page packet he received back in 2022 from a “marketing” company. He had saved it because it was so headshakingly maddening...
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Portfolio tips for procrastinating design and advertising students

8 Portfolio Building Tips For Panicking Design & Ad Students

Congratulations! Your college graduation is right around the corner. If you’re like many students in graphic design or advertising, you have a sense of panic growing faster than the national debt. Why? It’s likely because that all-important portfolio showcasing your work to potential employers consists of a folder… just a folder… well, and whatever stock...
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