Just add water...

...and we take whatever shape your project needs.

An Ad Guy is a "virtual" ad agency, a way of delivering top-notch advertising talent directly to businesses that want it without the overhead of traditional agencies.

I am Melton Cartes, the chief Ad Guy, and I can help you extend your marketing/advertising by helping you be more clever with your ad budget.



The latest thoughts from An Ad Guy.

Here you'll find advice for large established businesses and small start-ups, for immediate results as well as long-term growth. I hope you find this site helpful, enjoy reading and come back often. Thank you.

Services

February 15th, 2010 by Melton Cartes · No Comments

These are the services An Ad Guy offers. By taking a more practical approach to your marketing/advertising needs, An Ad Guy can cover just what you need at the moment or all of your needs. [Read more →]

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Web Development

February 15th, 2010 by Melton Cartes · No Comments

The number one problem clients seem to deal with regarding web development is the inability to edit their sites by themselves.

Hardiman | Carroll WordPress Website

An Ad Guy’s commitment in web development is to provide clients websites that they can edit when and how they see fit. Beyond that, we give them the tools to further promote their websites and drive traffic.

WordPress

To accomplish this An Ad Guy builds all of its websites for clients using the blog publishing application WordPress; you can read more about it here. WordPress is a solid software foundation on top of which a uniquely branded look can be placed while structuring the website as needed and providing clients with a robust content management system that allows them to manage their websites without being dependent on a web designer. [Read more →]

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Business Plans

February 15th, 2010 by Melton Cartes · No Comments

“Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.”
  —Peter Drucker

Business plans are the blueprints for a business. There are a handful of basic elements that go into a business plan: [Read more →]

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Planning

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Marketing Plans

When a business has identified the value of its product, the wants and desires of its customer and the key communication it needs to make to that customer to convert them, that is a marketing plan. [Read more →]

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Branding

February 15th, 2010 by Melton Cartes · No Comments
A sampling of previous logo projects

The next step is not simply making your product available to your customer, through sales channels, venues, retailers and markets. That is just expecting the product to sell itself and unless it’s water, hot cheese, or chocolate, that’s not going to happen. [Read more →]

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