marketing company For Your Reading Pleasure9 Tips to Great Design for Your Marketing Materials
9 TIPS FOR GREAT DESIGN
1) Dont just hire a good designer. Hire someone who
has had plenty of experience designing business
collateral. Your designer needs to ask you the
right questions about the project. And he/ she
needs to be able to turn the design round
reasonably fast too.
2) Write the copy first. I believe the copy drives the
project. (Unless this is a print ad, in which case
the visual and headline will often dominate).
3) Read your copy word for word to your designer.
Youd be amazed how often designers dont
understand the project because they havent been
properly briefed. Your designer is going to be
expressing in design the same persuasive arguments
that you / your writer will be articulating in words.
4) Ensure that your designer communicates your branding
i.e. the values you are trying to communicate.
5) Check that the copy is easy to read once it has
been laid out by your designer. If the design takes
too much attention to itself, then your readers wont
be following your arguments.
6) A professional designer will give you a creative brief:
he sets out on paper the brief as he understands
it. This includes the brand and the benefits of the
offer in question. The creative brief means
misunderstandings get cleared up before it they are
too expensive to change.
7) Hell then present you with 2-3 design options for
your review, about 3 weeks later.
8) Remember, you arent choosing the color for your
sports car, you are choosing the piece that best
reflects the brand and personality of your company or
offering.
9) Finally your designer brings you the finished product.
He instructs printers and oversees production.
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Ge Bluetooth Headset Replaceable Aaa Battery
Ge Bluetooth Headset Replaceable Aaa Battery
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Customer Review: What DOESN'T GE do well???
General Electric...I don't know about the rest of you, but upon seeing who made this item I thought to myself 'Really? They make cellphone accessories now?'
Yep. They do. And they make them well.
But not only that, they perfected a concept I'd always been hoping somebody would - a bluetooth headset that allows you to simply swap out AAA batteries at will. Who wants to be talking on their bluetooth and suddenly the thing just dies on them in the middle of a conversation? Well...now you need to charge it until eternity. And, of course, the day finally comes when the piece of trash battery included with the headset only holds about 5 minutes of juice. Who wants that? With the AAA battery, it never wears out, it's not all that heavy, and you can replace it whenever you like in about 5-10 seconds. If you're really good you can do it one-handed while driving!
When I said GE perfected this concept, I was serious. The only other AAA-operated bluetooth headsets were both made by Motorola (there's one that runs on a AAAA battery, but I don't feel like spending $15 on a battery that's weaker than a AAA, nor do I feel like smashing open a bunch of 9V batteries to GET AAAA batteries). I own both of the Motorola versions, the H300 and the HS805. The H300 was their first attempt, and it's alright. I could run with it on, but it was incredibly quiet, the earpiece didn't insert into the ear, and it had a tendency to echo the other person's voice back to them. The HS805, the so-called 'upgraded version' of the H300, was simply a piece of junk. It had all the problems of the H300, plus it would fall off my ear if a gust of wind passed nearby. It had all of the problems of the H300 and no improvements whatsoever.
Enter General Electric. This bluetooth you're looking at right now - do you know how many of those problems it has? None. Zero. Zip. And using a long-life AAA battery, it has a MONTH of standby time. 30 DAYS. I hardly need to keep AAA batteries in my car with a life like that, but I do anyway. No echo, no discomfort, yesterday I ran 6 miles with it on and only needed to adjust it 3 times when it wiggled itself loose. It inserts into your ear so you can hear it extra well, and the earpiece is vertically adjustable to your ear's length. The earpiece also allows the weight of the device to be shared between your ear canal and the top of your ear. My ONLY complaint on this device is that it seems to have a difficult time filtering out wind. So outdoor use requires you to face a different direction and while driving you need to point your A/C vent away from your face. Not even a big enough deal to warrant 4 stars, in my book.
The best bluetooth on the market, IMHO, is less than $35. The choice is clear. Hope you all enjoyed this...
Disney CARS Stickers - 4 Sheets
Disney CARS Stickers - 4 Sheets
Each package contains 4 sticker sheets with 12 stickers on each, featuring different characters and emblems from the movie "Cars." Character stickers are about 1 1/2" in size, and emblems are about 1/2".
Endless Referrals, Third Edition
Endless Referrals, Third Edition
The definitivve guide to turning casual contacts into solid sales opportunities
In this fully revised edition, Bob Burg builds on his proven relationship-building principles to bring even more clients to your door and helps you attract only those who are interested in what you sell. He shows how to maximize your daily contacts, utilize your tools both online and off, leverage your relationships, and generate ongoing sales opportunities.
"If you're serious about your sales career, whether you are selling a product, service, or yourself, master the contents of this book and you will practically guarantee your future success."
--Tom Hopkins, author of How to Master the Art of Selling
"Bob Burg has long been the authority on connecting with clients and building win-win relationships. Endless Referrals should be required reading for sales professionals and entrepreneurs everywhere."
-- Gary Keller, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Keller Williams Realty Intl. and author of The Millionaire Real Estate Investor
"I've found that acquiring business is the toughest challenge for professional services providers. Thankfully, Bob Burg provides pragmatic and effective techniques to smash that challenge to bits, whether using mail, phone, email, or a polite tap on the shoulder."
--Alan Weiss, Ph.D., author Million Dollar Consulting
"Bob Burg opens the floodgates to Fort Knox with this book. I like the simple, easy to understand, practical way he outlines the exact way to find endless referrals. A treasure."
--Dottie Walters, author of Speak & Grow Rich
"A no-nonsense approach to building your business through relationships."
--Jane Applegate, syndicated Los Angeles Times columnist
Customer Review: A pleasant exception to the rule of "empty" business books
A recent editorial in Fast Company Magazine complained about the lack of meaningful and actionable content in many best-selling business and professional development books. The editorial talked about books that, quite simply, fail to deliver on their promise because they are all theory, no detail.
Luckily, some best-selling business books do sell a lot of copies, such as Bob Burg's Endless Referrals that has sold more than 150,000 copies.
And, deservedly so. Not only does Endless Referrals point out the numerous different options available for building referrals, but it describes specific, actionable steps that you can take to implementing a desired strategy.
By being willing to "dirty his hands" with specific details, Bob Burg provides the missing link between good intentions and taking action in a positive direction every day. A great book, extensively underlined when I finished reading it.
Customer Review: Business Builders Must
Good stuff Bob!!
Once youo start reading the common sense contained within becomes a little over whelming, why isn't this stuff taught in schools?
Cheers
Andrew Fenwick
Sunrider Business Owner
Newcastle Australia
BrandSimple: How the Best Brands Keep it Simple and Succeed
BrandSimple: How the Best Brands Keep it Simple and Succeed
In an era in which complex marketing theories compete for attention, it is harder than ever to communicate a brand's message. Allen Adamson offers a refreshingly simple solution: Bring back the basics of good branding, and stay away from needlessly complicated strategies. Drawing on years of experience with some of the world's top brands, he shows how to reach customers and make your brand resonate. He also looks behind the scenes at traditional names like Maxwell House and newcomers like iPod, explaining what they do right--and wrong.
Customer Review: Better the 2nd time
I re-read "BrandSimple" while navigating through airports over the weekend. Remarkably, it was even stronger the 2nd time around, and 1+ years after my initial read. Few books of any genre can make that claim. I was reminded of just how much great, immediately actionable knowledge Adamson has captured in this book. I've worked in branding and marketing for 17 years and feel strongly that BrandSimple should be compulsory reading both for the branding veteran as well as the relative novice. Kudos to Mr. Adamson...
Michael Draznin
Customer Review: Good thinking on "Branding Signals"
This was an entertaining read, especially the depth of case studies. Allen used the term "branding signals" several times in this book, which I found to be nice illustration on how to articulate brand equity. As a former brand consultant and now client, I recommend it as a value-added thought piece.
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New Classics? My buddy Simon Kurt, starring in the forthcoming shortfilm Shuumatsu Dou Datta part 2, recently bought the new Nickelback album and was somehow surprised when he read the sticker on the package: 11 New Nickelback Classics. New classics? How can brand new songs already be classics? By definition, a classic is a creation of the highest excellence. And I doubt this brand new album, which has been out for 3 days now, is already a classic. I’m sure the marketer at the record com
Using Flash Tutorials To Increase Conversions… a $1 Million Idea?Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:00:12 -0800
Israeli startup company, EyeView, has raised anywhere from $500,000 to $1 million in seed funding to build technology it says will increase website conversion rates. The big idea? Displaying short Flash tutorials - screencasts, video guides, or any rich media presentation - with a call to action at the end. Presumably EyeView aims to make it easy for marketers to put together such tutorials, but if that’s the big idea… I don’t get it. Technology is nice. Flash videos are nice. But a nice Fla
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