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Is Your Business Color-Blind? - Mash Bonigala
If your company is like many others, you may have chosen your color palette based on what you personally find pleasing. While your opinion as a small business owner certainly matters, color can be not just a pretty visual, but a subconscious way of communicating with and invoking emotion in your customers. Here are the colors most often used in logo design and business brands, along with what they convey. By understanding the power of color in logo design, you can make logo and branding decisions that help ensure the future viability of your company.
Become a Banner Ad Expert Starting Today
If you have spent any amount of time on the internet at all, you have seen a banner ad. You may not have known what you were looking at or what they are called but banner ads are everywhere. Banner ads are either square or rectangular for the most part and are all over the internet on just about every website. While banner ads can come in different sizes, colors and some with flashing messages, they all have the same purpose.

The definition of branding
One of my readers pointed out that they really appreciated the definition of marketing that I use throughout Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing is getting someone who has a need to know, like and trust you. Most small business folks, exposed only to more academic definitions, really seem to appreciate the truthfulness of that characterization. This same reader (Eddy) also asked then for my definition of branding (as it might relate to marketing)

The Art of Making People Feel Welcome
Jan Gunnarsson and Olle Blohm, in Hostmanship: The Art of Making People Feel Welcome, write:
What sort of accent do you have?
Not only the way you speak-but the way you write and act. More than geography, accents now represent a choice of attitude.
How to Feature the Ultimate Benefits for your Customers
Once you know what you want your promotional copy to do, who you want to talk to and how you need to say what you want to say to get results, it’s time to explore features and benefits.
Start A Home Business Working With Your Spouse
In our last article, we talked about how to start home business successfully with your spouse. Here are some additional tips that will help you and your spouse run that business successfully.
Advertising Techniques In Print Media
The publication such as Newspapers, Magazines, Portfolio, Brochures, Tabloids and Pamphlets is a tool used by the advertising industry to promote certain products and services using advertising techniques.
Improve Your Email Marketing with these Non-Technical Changes
It's true that email marketing can get pretty technical. We've got HTML coding, and multi-part MIME messages, and cross browser compatibility, and designing for preview panes, and blacklists and blocklists and SPF records… It's enough to make non-techie marketers throw up their hands and give up on the thought of ever improving their email performance.
Using Your Nonprofit Organization's Website To Generate Revenue
In the nonprofit field, competition for resources is fierce, forcing nonprofit organizations to look beyond traditional fundraising strategies, such as applying for grants and contracts. Although there are a myriad of ways to raise funds, this article focuses on generating revenue through your organization's website. If you haven't used your website to raise funds, this might be the ideal time to turn it into a revenue generating tool.

7 Tips for Designing a Home Page that Builds Value and Maximizes Conversion Goals
On average, you have roughly seven seconds to get your message across before the end user abandons your website for one of your competitors' sites.

Do's and Don'ts of Networking
Do you oversell when you're out networking? Did you go just for the food and maybe free drink? Do you pull out more than one card? Are you dressed correctly when you go out networking? Funny Networking Poem created after watching the unsuccessful attempt to network and they simply need simple tips and a few adjustments to turn that diaster into a success.
Does your website content grab visitors' attention?
The purpose of your professional website is to capture potential prospects' attention and cause them to take specific action. If your website content doesn't speak directly to potential clients, they'll click away, never to be seen again. Read on to learn how you can make your website content more effective, starting today!
Branding Your Nonprofit's Mission - Six Items To Consider Before You Start
Nonprofit organizations have a myriad of issues they need to deal with on a daily basis, leaving them with little time to focus on branding their mission and organization. However, it is important that they allocate some time and money to branding, as good branding will establish a solid identify, making it easier for clients and stakeholders to recognize and grasp the organization's mission. In addition, recognition helps organizations to solicit clients, raise funds, and improve collaborative relationships. This article provides six items to consider in branding your organization.
12 Ways to Tell If Your Website Needs Work
Wouldn't it be nice to wake up and find emails from 3 hot leads who are dying to hire you? Or that you made $300 in online sales while you were sleeping? Duh, of course it would! And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to make it happen.

The Essence of Beauty and Brains in Self-marketing Through Websites
Find out how to get the most of self-marketing through effectively maintaining a website.
How to put up your website in One Week
Want YOUR web site up in a week? It can be done, and here's what it takes to do it:
The Importance of Layout to the Success of an Online Business
First impression is the best impression and this is very true in the case of online business too. I have come across many onsite business owners complaining that their website is not delivering the expected results in spite of employing good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) methods.
MARKETING ONLINE - GET TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG FOREVER
As a business blogger you must be having the desire to have many people like and come more times to your blog. You need to drive and maintain traffic. Traffic drives you. You also need to enjoy high search engine optimization. For you to achieve this, you must make your blog a brand. A brand so strong, that it will stand out against your competitors. But how do you make your blog a brand? Many times people use the word brand without actually understanding what a brand mean. The marketers define a brand as:- • A name or a term • A sigh, symbol
Custom Rugs and Carpets - 8 Tips Before You Buy
Buying a custom ordered product always has a small amount of risk involved. After all, most custom products require the buyer to take a leap of faith because they are going to buy something sight unseen. This does apply to custom rug making as well. You can minimize the risks by educating yourself and prepare yourself with proper planning. Here are 8 important tips:
Packaging… Get your unfair market share!
Packaging and Design solutions for small businesses seeking help.
From Staplers To Sticky Notes: Why Desktop Items Make Sense As Proomtional Products
How can you position your company’s name and contact information where it will be seen many times every working day, just where it matters most? Desktop imprinted products might be your answer. When you give useful desktop items, such as pens and memo clips, to your potential customers, you’re ensuring that they’ll see your company name many times throughout their business week. Colorful imprinted products, such as sticky notes, brighten up the desktop “landscape” and create a cheerful, positive association with your business in the customer’s mind.

Entrepreneurs Sometimes It Pays To Be Flexible – Sometimes It Does Not
Entrepreneurs are often told to be flexible in their approach to business, but often it is imperative that you are NOT flexible. Here’s a few examples.
Accentuate the Positive: What’s Already Working in Your Life?
In this article, rather than add to your "to do" list with more ways to improve your current situation, I thought I'd take a different approach that is ultimately simpler, more effective and much more enjoyable. I ask you instead: What is already working well in your life? Even if you feel you have a long way to go before your life is exactly how you want it, I invite you to take a look around at what you already have and do that is perfect or near perfect for you right now.
Stand Out and Get Noticed: 10 Tips On How to Win Over the Potential Client
In this tough economy, entrepreneurs must use every tool they have to win the client. Your best tool is yourself. How you appear, behave and communicate influences your rate of success. "Stand Out and Get Noticed" provides you with 10 tips on how to appear, behave and communicate to win the client.
Smart Women Get It Off The Ground
This article is about making the right plans from the very beginning to get your Big Idea off the ground. Many times we can take some early steps to start a business and we become frustrated when it does not grow quickly. The beginning is such an important part of a new venture. It’s essential to realize that proper planning and gaining the support system you need is key to be successful.

Shut up and take the money
Are you over selling? Are you listening for the customers ‘Closing Statements?’ A ‘Closing Statement’ is anything the customer says that is positive about your product, service, business or you.
Helpful Clues to Build Rapport
If you truly want to have a thriving book of business, you need to understand people and have them connect with you. Study the traits of the four social styles (Analytical, Commander, Expressive, Stabilizer). Practice picking up clues from prospect’s clothing, body language, surroundings, and speech
Trademark Basics
Short introduction to the intricacies of Trademarks.
How To Reduce Waste At Shopping Malls
What do you do with outdated seasonal banners at shopping malls? Typically, throw them out. In Vancouver they've taken a greener, much more beneficial path. And I have suggestions for them to go even further...
Tips on How to Create Effective Employee Incentive Programs
Tips on How to Create Effective Employee Incentive Programs
Getting Greener
Revealing misconceptions about the effort to go green and demonstrating the plentiful benefits. This article was featured in USBusinessReview; I and other local business people provide insight into the benefits of building green business practices.
Trademark vs. Service Mark
Simply put, trademarks are for goods while service marks are for services. When discussing either, it is common to use the term "trademark", even when discussing a service use, because the handling of either is interchangeable by both the USPTO and all 50 Secretary of State Offices.

The PR Credibility Factor
Unlike advertising, or other forms of marketing, it is the credibility factor that makes PR so effective.

Web Hosting Templates
Especially if you’re new to the whole website design thing, then web hosting templates are sure to have a lot of appeal for you. Many templates look good to the eye because they are designed by experts and usually use the latest in design software. If you don’t know what you’re doing, then templates do offer an advantage. On the other hand, however, templates have numerous disadvantages, the both of which this article will explore below.

Manage Your Daily Traffic
Concentration of power is the ability to focus upon and accomplish the most vital priorities. A priority is an activity to which we assign value. Vital priorities are high payoff and crucial. In business, vital priorities are essential for the existence, continuation, and well-being of the organization. In our personal life they are the priorities that align with our innermost values. How do we manage our "daily traffic"?
Website Templates Streamlining an Online Business Image
Looks mean everything, especially in business, and this includes online businesses. Product quality and selection, along with great customer service are at the core of every successful business, but if the outer shell isn’t appealing, shoppers are not as likely to take notice...
How To Design A Web Site That Sells
Your web site can be your 24/7 sales team if you set it up properly. Incorporate these elements into your design and have your business work for you, even while you sleep.
Necessary Elements Of Website Development
What matters is that your website matches the professionalism of your organization. Many websites that fail to make the impact expected fail because they are inaccessible or simply look unprofessional.
The Personality In Pacing Your Brand
The pacing of your brand can show different personality traits for your business as well. Here’s what I mean: You know how some people are speed-along, action-oriented, getting-it-done people? And others are more thoughtful, methodical, and take their time with things? You can show which type you are in a couple of ways in your brand. Here are the opportunities you have to show your pace in your brand:
How to make title tags optimized for search engines
I often analyze the content, HTML coding and tag structure, and link structure of websites, from the perspective of being optimized for search engines. I provide a report to each client on what they need to or should change, and often that report is much larger than they anticipated! On almost every single report I've delivered to date, the title tags have been in serious need of attention.
How Your Art Reveals You
Your art says a lot about you. That's why people spend so much time the first time they enter your home or apartment or office looking at the art you have chosen to hold in your personal space.

Understanding Design & Color in Art
Color is amazing in its meaning and feeling. Do the activities in this articles and see if you don't understand what I mean, if you don't already know that certain colors make you feel good, other colors make you feel blah. Then, think about how those same colors interact with the art you have.

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“What Color is Your Marketing and What is It Saying?”
Do you have any idea what role color plays in your marketing efforts? And if so, do you know what message your marketing efforts are conveying with the colors you use? Let me tell you that the colors you use in your marketing efforts – your brochures, business cards, letterhead, signage, office interiors, and more – play a very important role in motivating people. The colors speak loudly and clearly, so I believe it is in our best interest to learn what the colors convey in our marketing. Since colors are so important, it behooves us to learn what message they convey in our marketing efforts. Here is a brief overview to facilitate our learning some basics of the meaning of colors in our marketing.
Marketing Mythology Putting Lipstick on a Pig
So stop listening to those who offer well-meaning advice that doesn't feel like you. Don't change your website colors just because some study shows purple isn't seen as a power color.
The Explanation Gap
Excellent communicators understand that an explanation gap typically results in an execution gap. Remember the old rumor mill game? Tell a phrase to the person next to you at a table. Your neighbor tells it to their neighbor. And so on. Before you know it, the phrase “Let’s wrap the various toys with vibrant colors to excite the recipients” turns into “Let’s rap serious tunes with vibing colors to recite to the residents.”

What's Your “Management” Color?
"Why won't people listen to me?" - "It's not that difficult." - "Why is this taking so long?" Do those statements sound familiar? Maybe the problem has to do with personality types... Do you know your staff's "colors"?
Home Page Design - Why Does Your Home Page Exist?
Before you do anything else... before you chose your colors, before you choose your images, before you write your copy... you need to know what the purpose of your landing page is.
Colors You Wear and the Messages They Send
Colors send messages of power, credibility and reliability. The colors you wear may also lower your business presence.
What are Your True Colors?
Digital connectedness is the chance to show our true colors. When we take advantage of this opportunity to use it for false propaganda, we're cheating more than our audiences.
The 5 Jobs of your Logo's Color Palette
Picking colors for your logo can be difficult. Just how do you go about choosing appropriate colors? Everyone has favorite colors, and many people also have colors they hate. But, whether or not you personally like a color actually has little to do with its appropriateness for your business's brand. You should make your choices based on the colors that will best perform the color palette's jobs.
Colors In The Web
The Web is full of colors and shades of Grays, Reds, Greens, Blacks, Blues and hundred others. Using different colors make a Website look beautiful and attractive.No wonder a beautifully colored website may attract more customers or visitors.
Understanding Design & Color in Art
Color is amazing in its meaning and feeling. Do the activities in this articles and see if you don't understand what I mean, if you don't already know that certain colors make you feel good, other colors make you feel blah. Then, think about how those same colors interact with the art you have.
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