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Building An Online Brand
Big companies care about brands, small companies don’t, and that is a shame because any company that has aspirations of ever getting big, better figure out how to build and manage their brand. You can get sucked into all the hype about the latest social networking fad and waste all your time and money following this week’s Internet wunderkind or you can get your head out of your digital butt and build a business from the brand up.
Marketing – my three start up priorities
Are you considering establishing your own small business, or perhaps you are currently operating a business that you bought or started yourself? If you are, then we have found common ground. My name is Jo Macdermott and I am writing this article about my own marketing journey in creating a business that does just that: Marketing.
Make Your Logo Work For You! Five Key Ingredients to an Effective Business Logo
Your logo is your #1 sales representative. Is your logo working for you—or against you? Learn about five key ingredients to an effective business logo, and assess your logo to determine if it is communicating the best message for your business.

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The Value Proposition of Identity and Brand Management
No successful business leader would take on a significant strategic endeavor without first understanding the value, the expected results, and the anticipated return on investment. Everything must have a value proposition. This is especially true for evaluating an investment into brand management and the visual identity of your business and products.

USING THE MIND TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
Visual imaging sometimes also called mental imagery prepares the brain for action. Your creative visual right brain is one of your most important assets.

Shed Your Leadership Identity
Our identity is usually formed and adopted when we’re younger in response to an event or experience that didn’t turn out the way it “should” have. The identity gets reinforced over and over again because it produces results for us. This article gets you thinking about your identity and decisions you have made or could have made.
Image Versus Identity
The image of a company can be purchased and crafted much like an illusion that a stage magician performs. The identity of a company is the real version of what customers see and experience when patronizing a company. Huge difference. It is quite possible and often likely that companies that have paid for an image have quite a different identity. Grassroots marketing people like your's truly discover and bring out the true identity of the businesses we represent. Here's a quick example; an area has an Avis Rental Car location which has an image of "We're number two, so we try harder." But also in the area is Joe's Rental Cars, a local guy who serves free hot dogs and always has cars in stock. The first has an image, the second has an identity. Image is fleeting and expensive, identity keeps customers talking and coming back.

A hard working brand or just another pretty face
Many of us received our brand training through a practice of visual identity. In other wards, we created ad campaigns and other tactical applications to provide brand distinction. Yet, I know everyone reading this has heard numerous times and from multiple sources that a brand is not a logo or a tagline or a color palette. And still, not everyone realizes the difference between branding and brand development – or, visual identity vs. strategic identity. Brand development is the discovery of a brand’s unique (strategic) distinction and branding is the tactical (visual) application of that distinction.
Identity Theft Targets Children
Identity theft is on the rise and it is not only adults who are at risk of having their identity stolen and their credit ruined. Children are targets as well.
Personal Branding Tip: Shining Your Countenance Upon Your Customers
The face is one of the most used visual tools in advertising campaigns. It is used in all types of visual media. Faces are found in newspapers, magazines, and authors very often have their photos on the inside back cover of books.

How Thieves Physically Steal Your Data!
Basically, the theft of sensitive information from companies can happen in two ways: physical data breaches or online breaches of security. Physical identity theft refers to cases where the identity thief needs to get in close to their targets or to the information they are trying to obtain. These sorts of identity theft efforts include dumpster diving to search for documents which contain information such as account numbers, social security card or credit card numbers, addresses and like. Basically, any information which contains personally identifying information on a customer, vendor or employee is of use to identity thieves. Mail may be stolen or thieves may pose as company

Visual Storytelling: An Instant Checklist
Visual storytelling, visual communication is a hot topic in presentation skills training. With more and more professionals looking for tips and tricks. Use this 6-point cheat sheet to get ahead.
Microsoft®’s Forefront Review
Microsoft ‘s Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 provides IT with the tools needed for identity and access management through a SharePoint-based policy management console. Microsoft correctly targets the importance of identity management for users, devices, and services due to cyber attacks, regulatory mandates and privacy protection compliance. While FIM 2010 is designed around secure identity management, the logical question follows: How is the user properly identified during Windows authentication?
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