Posts Tagged ‘Branding’

Making Your Identity Work for You

Friday, April 30th, 2010

An important part of any company is a cohesive brand identity. This is an area that is sorely lacking in many small businesses. Sure, their print collateral is tied to their print ads but does that design identity follow to their website? Maybe, but in most cases that is where it stops. Once people start venturing into social media they just take...

Making Your Identity Work for You

Social Media Best Practices

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

You've heard all the buzz about social media and now you want to throw your hat in the ring, so where should you start? You cannot throw a mouse these days without hitting a self-proclaimed expert on social media but with all the conflicting views on how things should be done the best place to start is to get back to basics with a few simple...

Social Media Best Practices

What’s the deal with Social Networking?

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

If you are not living under a rock and do not rely on the "Trash Heap" to give you the latest news of the day, then you have probably heard the term "Social Networking". And while it is all the buzz on the internet, many people are unsure of what it is exactly. So what is Social Networking anyway? Well, Social Networking, in general, occurs...

What’s the deal with Social Networking?

Creating Effective Marketing Collateral

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

The trick to creating truly effective marketing materials is finding the right balance between form and function. As I have stated before, content is king but great content is useless if you don't have anyone reading it. Enter Content's flamboyant cousin, Design. Good design can have as much of an impact on the bottom line as content because the...

Creating Effective Marketing Collateral

I need to create some marketing materials, but what is the best option for me?

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

When it comes to marketing materials there are a great many things you can choose from to get your message out to the masses, the most popular of which is a website, but we are talking about offline materials here. So what to create? In order to determine the best type of collateral for you, you first need to decide the primary function of the...

I need to create some marketing materials, but what is the best option for me?