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American Inventors Could Use Some Branding Help!

If you are one of the mesmerized millions who have tuned into the hit reality show American Inventor, you probably witnessed the...
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May is Gold Month: Important Tips for Capitalizing on Gold Month Promotions

Jewelry retailers across the country are gearing up for May 1, the official start of gold month 2006. Since 2004, jewelers have used May as ap
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Home Builders and Remodelers andquot;Sure We Guarantee Our Workandquot; (...Sort of)

A few months ago I phoned a number of builders and renovators to research some upcoming magazine articles. Many were gracious enough to spend5
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Businesses Should Volunteer in the Community

All businesses should volunteer to help out in the community especially to help youth organizations. But what happens when you help a youth...
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Brandversation: Creating an Online Branded Experience

Brand Identity is a conversation, an interaction—a brandversation. Like any conversation, it leaves an impression. Of course, the nature...
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How to Stand Out

Did you know that on Coca-Colas balance sheet more than 90% of their value is represented by their "brand equity"? If building a unique brandi
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The Power of Storytelling to Build a Better Brand

How good are you at telling a story? Not so hot? Well then its time to brush up and hone that skill because your business, every business, isb
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Marketing Becomes Easier When the Brand is YOU

For a consultant, solo professional, or other type of entrepreneur, YOU are the brand. Marketing your business is about marketing YOU as...
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Synchronizing Fashion and Philosophy

As any young freelance designer in Paris will tell you, you must approach design houses in Europe with an answer to their plea for...
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Logos 3 Benefits a Logo Gives to your Brand

Whether youre just starting your business or your business is well underway, this question has more than likely popped into your...
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IT Specialists: Branding Your Company

As IT specialists, a big way to differentiate yourself is to make sure that youre branding your company. Focus on selling your company...
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Private Label Drinking Water: A Powerful Brand Builder

All firms need to build a strong brand in order to effectively compete. A strong brand distinguishes one firm from another and allows...
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Branding Your Company From The Top Down

Do you ever stop and wonder why women are leaving your company? Are you unsure how to stem the tide of women leaving corporate America? The...
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Solopreneur or Small Business Owner? Understand This: You Have No Competition!

No competition?! Is this naïve? Wishful thinking? A load of bunk?Not at all.As a coach who has consistently defied...
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Discover Your B to B Brand Identity

As the chief marketing communication officer in your organization, we challenge you to take an important and not-as-difficult-as-it-seems stepi
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How To Advertise And Build Brand Name For A Product Online

According to the research of authors Al Ries & Laura Ries, there are 22 immutable laws of branding to build a product into world-class...
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Packaging Yourself

I have been fired/let go three times in the past. None of these transitions were easy at the time, but they all aided in my personal...
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Brand Building Across Media Categories

You decide a particular book will be the perfect holiday gift for Uncle Joe, and you’re surfing the web for a bookseller. Will you visit...
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Community Involvement and Franchising

Every small business knows that you participate in the community, then the community will shop in your store. In a franchise business, the...
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Franchise Agreements; Maintenance, Repair and Appearance of Business Location

Image is so vitally important to a franchising companies brand-name, that each and every franchisee must maintain consistency of appearance int
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Maintenance of Required Equipment and Franchise Agreement Clauses

A franchisor must insure that each franchised outlet maintains the equipment used in the business operation. To make sure that the...
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Franchise Branding, Image and Drunk Driving

Franchisee has a lot to do about image. Many marketers would agree that image is the single most important part of branding. In the world...
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The 10 Ps Of Personal Packaging

There are 10 basic Ps we can all incorporate into our business personas. Remember minding your Ps and Qs your mother always told you. ...
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T Shirt Printing

Through usage of a modernized technology, many familiar logos and phrases are worn on all our backs. From visiting concerts, to visiting Hell,t
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Brochure Printing

With practical applications from political rallies, to informational pamphlets, brochure printing can be a practical idea for just about...
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Screen Printing

Everywhere around logos, designs and art shows up and comes out of the woodwork using a modernized version of an older technology. Screen...
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Answer The Most Important Brand Positioning Question First

Too many companies seek to model themselves after a successful company in their industry, paint a red target on them and say, “Let’s go get...
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Branding Your Signature In The Minds Of Your Visitors In 5 Easy Steps

Brand your Signature on the minds of your visitors. When your visitors asks Where can I get a ..... immediately your name should come to...
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Important Principles For Building A Strong Company Foundation

Take ResponsibilityWe approach the world as elements of cause rather than victims of circumstance. We take 100%...
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Designing Your Tradeshow Display on a Budget

Many small business owners make an attempt to create their own layouts for their initial trade show display. This makes perfect sense...
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Financial Services Giant Grabs Northeast Naming Rights

Financial services giant Citibank North America has stepped up the ante for market share, name and brand recognition along the USAs...
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Bringing Your Brand Into Focus

To promote your brand, you first have to be clear what it is, or what you want it to be. In essence, your brand should be unique. In a...
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Does Your Logo Draw or Repel Clients? How Can You Know? What Can You Do?

You walk into a room full of strangers. Your eyes scan the room briefly. You choose someone who feels likely to connect with you and walk over
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Let the Gimmicks Go

Gimmicks are cute but they do not give you the aura of professionalism. Of course, it depends on what you are planning to do with your...
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LOGOs Can Make or Break Your Brand

I once had a designer that took her work very seriously. Before she did any designs, she would interview you; take a look at your product...
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Typefaces and Fonts Play into Your Image

Lets take a look at other components of a company name and how it is displayed. Look at several business cards you have collected. How...
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Why Create a Brand?

If you take all of the things we have mentioned about your company name and how it is displayed, you will be ready to create your own brand. Ab
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Spelling Counts

I have dealt with many companies, read many books, and looked at images. Many times there are spelling or grammatical errors. I realize...
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Developing A Brand

Many businesses are taking for granted that consumers be acquainted with what their products are all about. But how could it is possible?...
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Authenticity: Your Advantage Over the Big Guys

At a business conference recently I got a powerful message about the power of authenticity. Paul Ray, coauthor of the best-selling book...
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You Are Your Own Brand

Recently, I wrote an article discussing the Unique Selling Proposition: its definition, its use and its penultimate importance in alla
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Eccentricity Plus Marketing Equals Profit

In the last century, when I was a young whippersnapper, attending classes at what was then and still is called “one of the more famous...
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Television is Just Another Word for Paperweight

Okay the headline is hyperbole, for now. But two years ago television could loosely be defined as a noun that meant both the box you...
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Branding Counts, Both for Profit Making Corporations and Non Profits

While for-profit corporations and non-profit charities have their obvious differences, they have at least two things in common: They need...
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Online Branding Strategies Creating Easy Market Penetration

When we go to the stores, how many of us make purchases based on brands? An unappreciated aspect through marketing online, consumers who...
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Spoofed? Get a Unique Logo!

The corporate identity of an organization is represented by its logo. A well-designed logo enhances the visibility of the company, which in...
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India Among Top Jeanswear Market

India among top jeanswear market Jeanswear trends started in India truly in the eighties, with the establishment and the movement of...
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Is Business Image Important?

What does your business image say? Every business has its own professional image in the marketplace. When you stop to think about your...
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Beat Your Competition With A Strong Personal Brand

About 75% of the 22 million small businesses in the U.S. are owned and managed by a single individual. The typical business reflects the...
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Marketing is Dead Long Live the Brand

There is a new economic order. Marketing was a business function relevant to the old economic order. Even though that economic order is gonef
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Your Business Title is an Important Marketing Tool

Everyone wants to have a business card and everyone wants to have a title. I know when I take someones card, I look for the title. I look...
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How Does Your Company Name Affect the Relationship You Have With Customers?

The name has a direct relationship with what you do. For example if you are selling skis for winter and you called yourself Nor-Ski, then...
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Viral Marketing Impacting Established Brands

In a rapidly changing technological landscape, some high profile brands are facing the challenging decision of whether to embrace...
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Logo Designing Tips: Win your Customers Beat Your Competitors

“A logo can make or mar one’s business.” A powerful logo can spell instant success for a corporate entity while, on the other hand, a bad logoc
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Why You Need A Website Gestalt

Wired magazine published an intriguing article entitled Very Short Stories where they asked a number of authors to create a story in...
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What The Holidays Teach Us About Branding

When it comes to creating and building a brand name, most companies feel compelled to file trademarks and establish “guidelines” to protect...
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Great Entrepreneurs Build Strong International Brand Names; Their Successors Greatly Damage Them

If you are of a certain age you will vividly remember the following names: Helena Rubenstein, Faberge, Germain Monteil, Trigere, Revlon...
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3 Steps to Creating Brand WOW on the Internet

The information superhighway - how I love to travel it’s winding roads on the way towards my next shoe purchase!Truth is, today the...
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Which Comes First, Branding or Marketing?

Let’s see, which came first the chicken or the egg? While the jury is still out on that old story, I recently realized that many...
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How Packaging Can Transform An Industry

Some industries are keeping current with innovative packaging technologies better than others. Packaging innovation can move your business...
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Photo Stamps And Small Business

It just isnt easy to stand out from the crowd these days and when a small business is stuck in the crowd, the revenues of the business can ben
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Momentum and Branding

I worked with a real estate company to help them increase sales and saw the “tortoise and the hare” fable come to life right before my...
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Why Faceless Technology Requires More Contact

What does your best customer look like? Are they blond, dark haired, tall or short with a light or dark complexion? I ask this question...
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Thats My Eyeball

I was checking out the independent films at Netflix a few minutes ago, when something startling happened.I came across a DVD cover witha
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Famous Swedish Brand Names

This article offers some general background information on some well-known Swedish brand names, although some of them may not be commonly...
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Selling Your Own Fragrance Brand

Selling your own fragrance is complex, rewarding and profitable. Complex because there are so many items to be considered bottles, labels...
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Acquiring Quality Logos Logo Design Guru

Quality logos are the foundation of marketing and promotional techniques for business. Among the characteristics associated with high...
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Accounting Logos Salient Features of Accounting Logo Design

There is a lot of consideration when being burdened with the complex tasks of creating and designing a logo, which not only reflects the imageo
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Abstract Logos Salient Features of Abstract Logo Design

All companies have similar basic issues. They have to consider how they are perceived by clients, the public, prospective customers and...
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Branding Your Business

When people think of your business, you want them to associate it with excellence and superiority. In order to do this, you must project a...
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A Quick Consumer Guide to Buying Custom Logo Products

Whether you’re a newbie to buying customized logo products for your company or other business operation, or an old pro that needs to be taughta
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Just Another Face in the Crowd?

Fact: Everyday the average consumer is bombarded with over 2,500 advertisements and company branding impressions. Thats right, over 2,500...
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Why Designing the Right Business Logo Matters So Much for Branding, Customer Loyalty and Success

The right business logo is arguably the most important element available to represent a business, especially in todays online world, where...
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Build Company Value By Buidling a Brand

Just what is a name worth to a new company? It is really all that important? And why not use the employee suggestion box and simply give...
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Mundane into Memorable

Wearing a nametag 24-7-365 for six straight years represents a simple, yet powerful business idea: make the mundane memorable.I’m stills
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Virtual Business Cards: Using Virtual Stationery in Networking and Business

Have you ever been in a situation where you ran out of business cards to give out, or simply forgot to bring it along? In these types of...
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Husband and Wife Duo Make Vodka Sensations

The old saying that love makes you do the craziest things is absolutely true. But in the case of Melkon Khosrovian, love drove him to make...
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Create a Market Position for Your Medical Practice

Carve out a market position to maximize your marketing investmentIn the marketing world, positioning is a relatively new concept....
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Co Branding

Co-branding involves combining two or more brands into a single product or service. Companies engage in co-branding to leverage strong...
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How to Strengthen Your Unique Online Brand

Besides the dynamics associated with search engine optimization, search engine marketing, pay-per-click, cost-per-click, backlinks, blogs...
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10 Benefits of Branding

You may be wondering why Branding is so important to the success of your business. Consider the points below, to see how they would contributet
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How a Nonprofit Name Change Generated Attention andamp; Momentum: A Case Study in Branding

The NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, a well-established nonprofit well-known by one generation of activists and supporters, changed...
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Naming Your Start up: Simple Dos and Donts

The time to start thinking about the ideal name for your new business is at the same time you start putting your business plan on paper. Yes,y
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Parity Busters

In reality, your company’s products and/or services are very likely perceived by the marketplace as a commodity. In many cases where you’ve...
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Achieve Your Business Success Through Clear Differentiation

The importance of clear differentiation for your product and service proposition cannot be overstated. Take any highly successful organisationa
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Rebranding Nigerias Cities

A conceptual gap still exists in the understanding of the principles and practices of place branding amongst Nigeria’s many state and local...
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Decoding The DNA Of The Brand

In a saturated and highly competitive market place, the importance of brands and branding to market share growth and product success cannot beo
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3 Keys To Creating Your Brand

The funny thing about a brand is, you will automatically create a brand for your business whether you mean to or not. The trick is to...
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Promote your Business with the Right Logo!

A logo is a design or image that represents a company, brand or product. Its aim is to help people identify the company with a positive...
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Branding The Realty Consulting Business

In a day and age where nearly two-thirds of enterprise value is originating from intangible assets alone, the future value of...
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Many A Small Is Together Big

It has been often noted than small businesses are the driving force behind the large number of innovations that contribute to growth of a...
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Smaller Budgets Need a Smarter Strategy

Big Spending is Not a StrategyIf you have a marketing budget in excess of $80 million, you can sell just about...
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Advantages of a Branded House or a House of Brands

If you want to win by growing your market share — there is a better way, a smarter way, than the traditional advertising and marketing...
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United We Brand

Adopting a united brands philosophy may just be what African and developing countries need if they are to fulfil their dreams of achieving...
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Logos for Business Cards Something to Think About

One of the biggest mistakes online marketers tend to make is they forget that offline advertising principles still apply to them and can...
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The Five Key Steps to Naming an Internet Business

Naming an Internet based business or start-up can be a daunting task. Do you follow the zany likes of Google and Yahoo, or do you go the...
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Company Logo Design: Rebrand Your Company With A Professional Logo Makeover

The logo design of a company is a crucial part of its brand building process. A logo can be termed as a visual representation of a...
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Do You Need a Brand?

So what exactly is a brand? We hear a lot of talk these days about branding, but what is it and why do you need one?A brand is a...
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Can a Small Business Be A Big Brand?

Do you think of your business as a brand? Because it is one, whether you view it that way or not. Even if its just you, a...
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Marketing Masturbation: Branding Not to Win

There is a single fundamental truth in branding that is true regardless of industry, company, or product: IN ORDER TO BE SUCCESSFUL, YOU...
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Sponsorship and Sports The ING Example: Running andamp; Formula One

Sponsoring is one of the ways to build and fortalice a brand. And sport is always a good target. But sport it not the only target....
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Product Differentiation? Hardly

It struck me the other day during lunch at a local Moe’s Southwestern Grill that a new phenomenon has swept the restaurant landscape in the...
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Establish Credibility With Your Grammar

What do many sportscasters, journalists, ministers, politicians, entertainers, businesspeople, educators, and others who speak and write...
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4 Tips to Make Sure Your Market andquot;Getsandquot; You and You andquot;Getandquot; Them Before Your Competition Does

Branding is more than merely a logo, name, tagline or color scheme (these are visual tools you place in your brand toolbox) it is the...
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How to Draw More Clients to YOU Like Flies to Honey!

Ever wonder why some months business is booming and other months, nothing? I can tell you that it’s not luck, alignment of the stars, or lacko
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Your Recipe for Brand Success, Part II

We all know, some of us too well, what can happen when we do not set boundaries in our personal lives; does the term “door mat” ring any bells
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Brand Promise Enhance Customer Experience

Every aspect of your business should enhance the customer experience, not detract from it.Every retail establishment – whether a store,a
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Your Recipe for Brand Success, Part I

As entrepreneurs, we are faced with wearing many hats. Some hats fit us beautifully while others are not quite as flattering. However, as...
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Michelle Obama Delivers Address on Community Relations at Best Bosses Conference

The culmination of the 2006 Best Bosses Conference & Celebration, held September 27, 2006 in Chicago, was a Plenary Address delivered by...
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The Double Sided Card, is It a Good Idea?

Just recently I went to order some business cards. I had no idea as to what I wanted I just knew that I had to have some. I was absolutely...
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Beyond Branding

Small businesses owners today are aware of the importance of carving an image in the minds of their prospective clients. They realize the...
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Trying to Improve Your Sales? What Brand are You?

Have you spent any time and money on hiring a "branding" expert to help with your business and sales?There is an old adage in the...
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Boredom Is the Enemy: 16 MOREs to Pump Up Productivity

When was the last time you were bored?Today? Yesterday? Last week? Last year?And when you were bored...
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Corporate Identity: Its More Than A Logo

Let’s say you’re the marketing director of a professional services firm, the director of corporate communications, or the company...
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So What the Heck is a Slogan, Anyway?

The purpose of the strapline or slogan in an advertisement is to leave the key brand message in the mind of the target (thats you). It is thes
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Brand Identity: Picture it with Power

Your vision is clear, you’ve identified your product; now BRAND it! What’s the purpose?Your BRAND identifies your product as belongingt
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Small Business Marketing Tip Brand and Customer Referrals

It’s true: Good customers want to help your business succeed. Let’s help them out.As a small business owner you know your...
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Is Small Business Branding More Important Than A Personal Touch For A Sole Proprietor?

Big corporations spend millions of dollars on creating a recognizable brand and protecting it via trademarks and copyright. If branding is...
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Business Card CD Duplications

One of the most important principles in business is branding. This is because it plays a big role in creating product awareness and...
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Net Branding Trends Part I

Branding has always evolved from the simple to the complex, just like everything else. Evolution begets progress. Now in this Information...
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Get a Logo Create a Brand

The famous Puma leap or the big yellow "M" reminds all of us the famous "PUMA" and "McDonalds"...No matter how young or how establisheda
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Protecting Brands From Being 1

We define brand as a representation of consumer perception — the perception and feeling toward a product or service. For example, when we...
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Hip Hops Influence on Brands

It has been 35 years since its founding and hip-hop continues to thrive in urban America. Once a block party fad that started in the Bronx...
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Image is Everything, Almost

During the good old days, a business could get away with scribbling a note or pecking on a typewriter long after the ribbon should have...
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Brand Promotion Strategies

Branding your business You need to stand out from the herd when it comes to business. You need to be better, stronger and more...
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Certification of Your Profession A Step in Personal Branding?

Much in business -- as on the stock exchange -- moves in trends. Not forever though. Some trends will fade away when others amplify. And...
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Company Letter Head Designs Top 4 Worst Mistakes: Dont Be Caught Making These!

Have you thought about your letterhead lately? Many businesses don’t because it is easier to not think about it and keep going on with the...
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