When cash flow is down, marketing will help bring it back, so don’t cut the marketing budget when times are tough. It’s basic math: you can’t spend more than you’re making. Not for very long anyway. It’s a natural reaction to tighten our belt when cash flow isn’t flowing, but when you’re running a business,…
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Would you like to make more money doing what you do? Unless you have a rare allergy to financial success, the answer is probably “yes.” Business owners are always looking for new ways to increase revenue and maximize profits. You can diversify the services you offer, you can cut down on waste, you can even…
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If you’re starting a business, or even if you’ve been running a business for some time, chances are you’ve considered whether or not you should spend money on a professional graphic designer to create your company logo and branded materials. And as with most business decisions, the cost of such an expense factors significantly into…
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The Big Three: Domain Names, Web Hosting & Websites The internet is a major part of life for many of us. For the younger among us, it’s been there all their lives. It’s easy to take for granted that the internet just works. We just turn our device on and there it is. Many of…
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Many business owners and managers don’t see the need to hire a professional graphic designer for small or day-to-day jobs. You might assume that you’d only hire a graphic designer for some high-priority, high-concept, and high-priced major endeavor. With high stakes, you’d certainly want a professional to ensure the project earns a good return on…
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There have been several high-profile rebrands in recent years, and some have, of course, been more successful than others. It’s not easy to discard a design and personality that worked in favor of a new one, regardless of how much research, creativity and innovation goes into the effort. Imagine if you began to feel like…
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People often associate a company’s brand with the logo, but that’s just one piece of the puzzle. Modern branding isn’t just about putting a name on a product. It’s about expressing the values and qualities of a business; and doing so in a manner that will resonate with, and appeal to, its desired customer base.…
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If you’ve been using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or one of the myriad other social media platforms over the last several years, you may have come to realize, in this hyper-political, professionally-outraged era, that branding—while important for businesses—is also important for movements. This is largely because social media and 24-hour news coverage has turned what might…
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Stop&Shop Supermarkets have decided—or more accurately, their parent company Ahold Delhaize have decided—to once again change the supermarket chain’s logo and branding. This comes barely a decade after making a drastic change from a red and green stoplight logo to a more colorful, modern, somewhat abstract “fruit bowl” design. So what’s the new design? What’s…
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Paying proper attention to your business’ brand goes a long way to building trust in your customers. Think about how important trust is in your daily life. Each of us relies on someone at one time or another for support, and assurance that everything’s going to be OK. We all want to feel secure in…
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