Guys and gals. It’s 2017. With the new year comes a few moments in which we are able to take a thoughtful glance back at what got us to where we are in our current state. How are you doing? How’s life? How is your brand behaving from a digital perspective? Are your marketing efforts healthy, hungry, and pushing you down the right path into the future?

There are a lot of questions that come up in a moment of reflection. And this is a good thing. It’s important to constantly analyze what’s working and what isn’t. Periods of stagnation are not good.

Okay people. We’re a month in to 2016. Time moves at a very rapid pace. The question: What have you done to aid in the facilitation of your New Year’s resolution marketing goals? We hope you’re well on your way to bringing those goals to fruition. If you’re still wrapping your mind around the next 11 months, here are 16 thoughts/ideas to get the visual side of your content marketing up to snuff in 2016.

What do you do when you’ve been promoting your brand so well that you have zero bandwidth to take on any new business?

For some, the shortsighted answer is to, well, stop promoting the brand – to, in a sense, draw the shades and hide for a while to get caught up.

While it’s easy to understand why this may seem like a good idea, (after all, who enjoys the anxiety of being totally maxed out?) you also don’t want to risk losing what you worked so hard to build in the first place.

With Superbowl XLIX fast approaching, it’s as good a time as any to take a mindful look at one of the game’s brightest stars, Marshawn Lynch – running back of the Seattle Seahawks.

Unique. If your marketing collateral doesn’t include “unique” as a pre-meditated vantage point you’re missing the mark.

Creative marketing is what separates a brand from a brand consumers want to invest in. If people aren’t investing in what you’re working on, what’s the point? Labor of love? That’s called a hobby.

Creative marketing is the catalyst of driving sales for any product, service, or thought across any specific vertical.