Branding & Design, Web Development

September 30th, 2009

The Importance Of Good Web Design

Your website is a virtual representation of your company and just like any physical company, when the customer visit your website, it does give an impression of how much you care about quality. We all judge everything by its cover and this is where a good design comes in.

Consider your business have a physical office; would you allow your employees or worse, your salespersons to dress shabby when they are dealing with your customers? Off course not.

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Branding & Design

September 24th, 2009

5 Tactical Business Focus

Loosing in the race of getting new projects with your competitors? Don’t blame the economy.

Well, okay, you can blame the economy, your spouse, your kids, your pets, yourself, and you can blame everybody involved in it, even your postman. Do this only to let your frustration out and do it silently and alone without hurting anyone. Do it when you are taking a shower.

Now it’s time to bounce and be a man (or woman) about it. In this article, I am sharing 5 great tactical tips on how to focus your business in order to increase efficiency and prepare for your upcoming breakthroughs.

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Branding & Design

September 24th, 2009

Build Client Base

If you are a new freelancer or a new business, at the beginning of your start-up point where you don’t have any client base yet. Don’t tremble!

Your soon-to-be clients may already be around you. Come on out, recognize them and let’s reach out to them.

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Branding & Design

September 22nd, 2009

Are You Missing Marketing?

Don’t stop at having a great product! Get to know the people who use your product and get to know them well. This is one of the many secrets of having a successful business life.

Marketing is a skill of transferring goods and services from producer to consumer. Marketing is about manufacturing the right consumer products and satisfying the need of the consumers. Marketing is a business management technique and an art form of problem solving.

Marketing is a creative business and business is booming.

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Branding & Design

September 22nd, 2009

Planning Your Promotional Strategy

Learn all the things you need to know to accomplish your next successful promotional event. Whether it is your first website, brochure, direct mail, email campaign, or a sweepstakes; you name it.

The details involved maybe different for each type of those marketing approaches, however, the game plan is all the same. Understand these fundamental principles once, and you can practically apply them on almost anything in life.

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Branding & Design, Tips

September 20th, 2009

A Dozen Common Mistakes

The reason firms fail is not creativity, location, or the marketplace. It’s management ability. Your firm is a direct reflection of you, and you must take responsibility for it. Here are the most common 12 mistakes we see creative service firms make. If you are managing a firm now, you’ll identify immediately. If you are an employee, this might give you some context for the decisions you may not agree with. If you are considering starting a company, this will help you learn from the mistakes of others.

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Branding & Design

September 19th, 2009

Branding: Self Discovery

We can only function as fully as we understand ourselves. This can also be applied to your business. How well do you know your business?

Let’s take an example of a high-tech gadget that says can do all these sort of things from A-Z on the label. Majority of people do not read manual book. If the gadget works, that’s great! However, if not, this doesn’t mean that the product is a defect. Discovering how to use the product properly guarantees its maximum usability.

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Branding & Design, Tips

September 18th, 2009

Super Bargaining Power

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Have you ever seen a person getting a really great deal out of a tight business negotiation in front of your own eyes? I have, and I am sure most of people have experienced it too.

That person didn’t even have to raise his voice or even did something that maybe looked supernatural. It was as if the vendor was giving it gladly to him and even add some more features into the deal. Isn’t it nice to have that kind of talent too?

So, I went to him and ask what’s the secret behind all that charisma. Here’s the breakdown of my conversation with him.

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Branding & Design

September 18th, 2009

Practical Media Kit

Media Kit is also known as Press Kit: a pre-assembled informational or promotional juice of a company or an individual.

The only main purpose of having a Media Kit handy is to streamline responses to content requests for media purposes. This is very crucial specially when you are dealing with large number of inquiry and distribution.

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Branding & Design

September 15th, 2009

Overcoming Creative Block

Nobody is immune from this so-called creative disease. There’s nothing wrong catching it, don’t be alarmed, and definitely there’s no need to be panic. Take a deep breath; hold it for 3 seconds (tell yourself that everything is going to be okay); and then exhale.

Be prepared and get roughened up. I am saying that because there will be some resistance coming your way.

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