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.
How to Execute a Successful #GivingTuesday Marketing Campaign
These days, many business owners are ready to launch a marketing campaign that targets donors and raises funds for a great cause. If you’re preparing to execute a Giving Tuesday campaign, now is the time to access strategies and systems that will help you obtain optimal results. Use some or all of the techniques outlined…
Choosing Your Logo Color
Your logo is probably the first thing that comes to mind when people think about your brand, so it makes sense to give it a memorable design. This should include color, but that doesn’t always come to mind when business owners are deciding on a great logo. Logo color can tell people a lot about…
How do I build brand awareness?
You might be offering the best service or product available under the sun. But unless your customers are aware of this, you might not make even a single sale. This drives home the need to build brand awareness. Creating brand awareness for your company or products will give it the visibility it needs to meet…
Branding: A Candid Conversation
Can I be honest with you? When I talk with a business owner, a business owner of any size, an entrepreneur, a small size business owner, a medium size business owner, and even the large business owners that I talk to; they all have a reason for getting up in the morning and coming and…
Creative Marketing Ideas for Small and Mid Sized Businesses
Marketing costs can become a big expenditure for small and mid-sized businesses, and yet it is a critical way to securing repeat business and finding new customers. Although smaller businesses cannot compete with the big ads created by mammoth corporations, they can come up with creative marketing ideas to reach their niche with interesting messages…
What are the best books and articles about brandtelling, brand and storytelling, branded contents?
In today’s very competitive business world, it’s harder and harder to get people’s attention and trust. One of the best ways to do so is by using a technique known as brandtelling, which has grown in popularity. Using the personal touch of storytelling to attract customers, it’s a marketing strategy that is resulting in better…
Choose Your Brand, if Not Now, When Will You? [VIDEO]
So many of our clients get stuck when it comes time to evaluate the design services and choose their brand position and their logo. Understandably, the moment where you choose your brand is a big decision! What seems to happen is that people try to compare their new brand and logo to an existing one —…
Branding, Marketing, and Positioning: Understanding the Differences
Branding was the top objective of 42 percent of digital ad spending in 2015, according to eMarketer. This reflected an increase from 40.9 percent the previous year, showing the increasing emphasis marketing agencies are putting on branding. So what is branding? What role does it play in marketing, and how does it relate to positioning?…
How a Brand Style Guide Helps Build Your Company’s Image
For the third year in a row, Apple topped Interbrand’s annual list of best global brands, increasing its brand value by 43 percent to reach $170.276 billion. Apple owes much of its success to a marketing philosophy initially laid out by founding investor Mike Markkula, who emphasized a focus on core goals, maintaining a professional…
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…
What is a Brand Narrative?
I often get asked, “What is a Brand Narrative”? And the answer is simply your brand story. It’s both the history of and the future focus for your business. All tied up in one tight strategy. What is a brand narrative doing for my business? Simply put, your brand narrative provides context to your team, continuity…
Press Release: Finding Brand: The Brand Book Tutorial Hits Amazon’s Shelves Today
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Marketing Managers, CMO’s, and Business Owners now have a reliable guide to help manage and grow their brand: Finding Brand Eagle Point, OR. – September 4, 2013 – Brands are defenseless. Companies wipe their feet on them, they throw them in the trash, and they don’t have the patience to let them…