Let’s face it, marketing can be hard! In each marketing blog post, we hope you’ll find the information you need for your business marketing success.
What Is Corporate Identity Branding?
When we talk about identity, we refer to the aspects that differentiate us from other people. Our personalities demonstrate our uniqueness that we convey through our speech, behavior, and image. Similarly, a business makes distinguishes itself from the rest through the image it portrays to the world. This could be through business culture company brochures,…
What is Business Brand Image?
A company’s brand image is their identity in the mind of the customer. It is made up of the perceptions, views and beliefs that a consumer has about that company. While it can be formed by data, it is more often formed by impressions that the consumer has about the company. Southern Oregon businesses wanting…
Brand Camp!
We’ve spent a lot of time over the last few weeks conducting Brand Camps with a client that is getting ready to roll out a new brand. A Brand Camp is a diagonal cross-section of the staff with about 10-15 people in attendance. The Camps last about 1.5 hours, and in it, the company introduces…
A Little Bit about Paradux Media Group
Who are Our Best Clients? We’re interested in working with businesses that have a clear vision of where they’re going. In our experience, business owners who have vision for where the business is going, allows us to do our very best work. The reason is that we work from a strategic basis. Everything we do…
Being Part of It Matters
Ever notice how there’s something special that happens during a live show, something that simply can’t be bottled and captured? How you just “had to be there”? That’s because, as humans, we want to be part of something special, part of a story, a narrative. And being at a live show represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity…
Facebook Do You Have A Facebook Strategy? – The Beginning
What is your Facebook strategy, do you have one? Is it about getting people to ‘like’ your page, ‘like’ posts, comment on posts, drive traffic to your website, visibility, likeability, engagement, awareness, promote products, sell products or services, expert status, public relations, customer feedback, to make money? Your answer is probably yes, yes all of…
Paradux Media Group Business Cards
Taking your business to the next level is what Paradux Media Group specializes in doing. And toward the end of this year, we recognized that it was time to take our brand image to the next level as well. After all — every great once in a while, the cobbler’s children do actually get new…
Creating a Brand in a Tough Economic Environment
I don’t have to tell you that the economy in the last few years has been tough for a brand. We’ve all lived through it, and if you’re still in business you’ve figured out how to survive in this economic environment, it was probably a combination of intention, a little luck, and a strong brand position.…
Brand Book Rules (or brand dos and don’ts)
An inevitable section of every Brand Book is the “Rules” section. This is the section of the brand book where you spell out, in excruciating detail, the dos and don’ts of portraying your brand imagery. It’s primarily used by your marketing partners, but the group that will need this section of the brand book the…
Branding Lessons from Trees
Although as marketers, we tend to talk about brands in never-changing absolutes – the reality is that brands evolve. They adapt. They grow. Their roots spread deeper and their ideals reach ever-higher reaching for loftier and more audacious goals – not unlike trees spreading their branches toward sunlight. Just like trees, brands need to morph, to…
3 Must-Not-Miss Components for a Non-Profit Brand
Soliciting donations is hard work for any non-profit and it’s often made all the harder because the non-profit has not laid the appropriate groundwork in creating their brand image. This oversight usually ends up costing them donations in the long run. While non-profits need to create a brand to the same degree every other business…
How are You Better than Your Competition?
I don’t care what industry you’re in when you look at the landscape of those businesses that do what you do; you compare your business to the work that they do. And you have opinions about their work – either you respect it, or you don’t. But the thing is, you know how your business…
Informational Marketing: Position Your Brand as a Knowledge Hub
One of the most powerful ways you can (and should) use your brand is to position it as an informational marketing resource for your customers. Think about it: every one of us accumulates a significant amount of information/trivia in our given field simply because we work in that field. Remember when you were relatively new…
Why Your Business Should be on Facebook
I was chatting with someone the other day whose experience on Facebook was that of a meat-market/single’s scene. She was (rightfully) mystified as to why her business (or any business for that matter) should be on Facebook. With that experience on Facebook, I can see why she was confused. The truth is, almost everyone is…
Consistent Branding at Different Locations
If you’ve got more than one location, it just got at least three times as hard to keep your brand consistent. “If I have two locations, shouldn’t it just be two-times as hard?” you ask. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work out that way. Having more than one location usually, means that you have to split your time…
Lessons in Brand Authenticity
I stumbled across a question posed on LinkedIn this morning that got me thinking. The question was: How do you see social platforms evolving in the future? And while I answered it from a personal standpoint, I neglected the answer from a brand authenticity perspective – an oversight I aim to correct here. Social Media…