Logo Design - Your First Step Towards Business Success

The author successfully explains the importance of having a professional logo design for success of any business. While most businessmen would spend a lot on other accounts, they are often thrifty while getting a logo, but isn't it important to invest in a proper logo that will be the face of your company to the world?

5 Surefire Ways to Get Your Brochure Thrown in the Trash

Want to avoid unimpressive results, a low return on your design and marketing investment? Read this short, power-packed bulletin. Here are 5 things you absolutely need to keep in mind when designing or own brochure, or having a professional design it for you.

Starbucks: The Modern Day Coffee Phenom

Starbucks is a modern coffee mecca-empire that seems to be on the lips of every corporate yuppie in America. And this is not by coincidence, it's by design. Why has Starbucks been such a great example of corporate branding success?

Web Marketing and Traditional Advertising are more Effective with Proper Branding

Which is better? ~ Direct mail campaigns versus Email campaigns ~ Print/billboard ads versus Web banner ads ~ Broadcast/radio commercials versus Podcasts/Webcasts ~ Newspaper/magazine ads versus electronic newsletters/Blogs

Banks Slogans are Not Bank Brands

Differentiating products and services through advertising is common for many industries. Financial services marketers seem to be having a particularly tough time.

Logo Design

A logo is essentially a visual brand identity of a company. The origins of logos can be traced to the 19th century, when industries added a symbol to represent their companies and to help customers easily identify their products. The trend caught on, and today corporations, services, products, agencies, universities, and colleges all have a specially designed identifying emblem or logo.

Private Labeled Bottled Water for the Hospitality and Lodging Industry

Quality branding creates customer loyalty. Private labeled bottled water is an ideal and powerful way to promote a quality hospitality brand.

Naming and Branding Your Business

You've heard it a million times. Perception is everything. Regardless of whether it's the truth, perception is what rules the world. So when considering your business name, make sure that the perception of that name is what you intend it to be.

Internet Branding

When talking about Internet branding, positioning is the key. Positioning is the act of fixing the exact locus of the product offer in the chosen market; it decides how and around what distinctive feature the product offer has to be couched and communicated to the consumers. While positioning its product, a firm analyzes the competitor’s positions, searches its own competitive advantages and then identifies the best possible position for the product.

Branding a New Service in an Existing Small Business; Case Study

If you run a small business and you have a community following of sorts you have to be careful not to dilute your message by over marketing peripheral services. Yet at the same time if your existing customers desire a similar service

Brand Naming - Art, Skill, and Luck!

A great name is like extra octane in a brand. A bad, boring or sound-alike name won't necessarily kill a brands chances for success. In most cases however, it dramatically dilutes the brand equity an...

Marketing 202; Increasing Brand Awareness While Getting Immediate Response

Many marketing and account executives who sell advertising will ask the question do you want to increase your brand awareness or do you want direct response from the potential customer to come and buy from you tomorrow. Many of these account executives and advertising salespeople separate the two different goals.

How to Create a Perennial Brand

A perennial brand is a brand that lasts for decades through bad and good economic conditions. One of the most well-known perennial brands is Coca-Cola. This soft drink was created in 1886 and started out as a soda fountain drink selling for five cents per glass. Today Coca-Cola has 400 soft drink brands and operates in 200 countries. The revenue in 2005 was 6.4 billion, and $4.7 billion was paid to shareholders.