Kim Garmon Hummel

Quick! Think of a time you encountered a logo for a company that offers a product or service you needed and thought, “Huh? What a weird choice… what does that even mean?” It was a seemingly random concoction of shapes and colors that didn’t say anything about the brand or

How often do you make impactful changes to your website? If you’re like most businesses, your website gets updated once every couple of years—maybe. That used to be the norm - build it, set it, and forget it. The purpose of a website was to be a repository of information,

As much as I wish it wasn’t true, especially for the sake of the people who call me on behalf of their business, there are far too many marketing strategies that leave business development teams and decision makers feeling like their brand is screaming into an infinite void. This is

What makes McDonald’s french fries so good? (Note - we didn’t say “good for you”—just, so good!) It’s the combination of that uniform shape, heat, salt, fat…and the predictability that they’re always going to taste the same. When Ray Kroc joined McDonald’s in 1954 and rolled out the idea of

If you ask us, there’s no such thing as too much experience, knowledge, or expertise. (We’d also add caffeine to that list, but that’s beside the point.) Case in point: our recent merger under the name Sauce Agency. As a combination of The Selling Agency and Sauce Marketing, Sauce Agency

In today’s tech landscape, one-size-fits-all solutions are usually seen as a big red flag. The thinking is that the more niche and specific your tech-stack, the more competitive you’ll be with others in the same industry. I mean, who buys pants that are one-size-fits all when you have a bazillion

You know that spidey-sense that sends shudders down your spine when a brand uses slimy sales and marketing messages? It gives you the “ick” immediately. Every alarm bell goes off in your brain alerting you to run as fast as you can to avoid such flagrant coercion. You close the

Today we’re taking a ride in a time machine and going way back in the annals of history. How far back? Well, before Sauce Marketing and The Selling Agency combined forces and became Sauce Agency. So, like, 2020. If we bent the fabric of time and space and zapped open

A neanderthal and a bear walk into a bar. The bartender says, “What’s your story?” The neanderthal says,“Bear with me.” Now that you’re rolling your eyes and wondering how such an abysmally bad joke made it past the careful eye of Sauce editors, here’s a different scenario: A neanderthal clicks

Can you relate to this? You’re shopping online for a new pair of running shoes, and you click into a website. Now, all you want to know is if these shoes will help with overpronation and solve that pain in your ankle, but instead you find yourself scrolling through a