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  • Why All The Search Engine Secrecy?
    The search engines try to be good at keeping their methods of ranking websites top-secret. You never quite know exactly why such-and-so company wound up in the #1 slot and your company is way down on page 3. You wonder if it's because the search engines like it better. Or because it knows the secret handshake. So, you start doing research—and there's a lot of conflicting information out there:

    Date of Article: 29Oct2008
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • Keep Your Logo Simple
    The job of your logo is to communicate what your business is all about in an instant. But if you try to say too much in that instant, it's more likely that your clients and prospects will either not get the message at all or that they'll get the wrong message—and wind up pulling the wrong information out of an overcomplicated logo.
    Date of Article: 29Oct2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • 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.
    Date of Article: 29Oct2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Getting Your Website Noticed by the Search Engines
    You've just launched your website, marking the end of a huge effort and the beginning of a whole new way of doing business. Now, all you have to do is sit back and wait for visitors to flood in, right? But, people have to know your site's there in order to visit. So you go over to Google and search on your field to find your business. You don't see anything on the first few pages.
    Date of Article: 29Oct2008
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • The 4 Jobs of Your Logo Font
    Many entrepreneurs think that the font for their business name is like a trophy wife—just there to look pretty, all perfect hair and manicure. So, they try to find a font that looks cool, often without looking at any of the features of the font itself. But, the font in your logo is a busy little element. It works 4 jobs!
    Date of Article: 18Sep2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • The 6 Jobs of Your Logo's Icon
    This is a case of the icon's job description not being well written. In a perfect world, entrepreneurs love their logo icons—and personally identify with their meaning. But, that's the logo icon's last, and least important, job. First, it must do several more important jobs for your company.
    Date of Article: 17Sep2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Branding Is Like A Fairy Tale...
    It may not seem like the story of Little Red Riding Hood has much of a parallel to your business's brand. But, a good brand can be a lot like a story. Instead of being a story of a little girl going on a journey, and overcoming different challenges, the brand is the story of how you take your customer from just learning about your business to becoming a customer.
    Date of Article: 15Sep2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • How To Avoid Having Two Separate Businesses To Market Even If You Offer Two Services
    I get a lot of questions from small business owners who have two major problems they solve or two services they offer in one business. I'm not really sure why this is so prevalent—but I have a feeling that it might have to do with the reluctance that a lot of small business owners feel when it comes to paring down their services or target audiences.
    Date of Article: 14Sep2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • The Three-Part Harmony in Your Logo
    Just as a harmonized song is made up of a set of three notes, every small business's logo should be made up of three pieces of art: the icon, the font, and the color palette. These three pieces all work together, singing the same basic song, to tell your business's story. In your logo, each of them gives you an opportunity to build in meaning and symbolism.
    Date of Article: 13Sep2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • The Four Red Light Factors For Your Business Brand
    Making decisions about the 4 following Brand Definition factors does make you stop and wait a bit but ensures that you proceed through the branding process safely and create a brand that will help your business to reach its goals safely and comfortably.
    Date of Article: 12Sep2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • How A Strong Brand Identity Helps Overcome Customer Reluctance
    Many small businesses, especially one-person businesses, don't see the point in investing the time, work and money in creating a brand identity. After all, they're very good at whatever it is that they do, and they should be able to make more than "just a living" by simply putting up a website, being themselves, and delivering a high-quality service, right?
    Date of Article: 06May2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Rebranding Is an Excuse to Party in Your Business
    Once the redesign is done, many small businesses launch it silently. They change their logos, business cards, and websites one day—sometimes without so much as an announcement or a "By the way... " to their customers. Not only are they potentially confusing and alienating them, but they're also missing out on a great excuse to party!
    Date of Article: 04May2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • How To Stand Out At A Trade Show
    If you're setting up a display at a trade show, you have to do more than just pay for a booth space, put on a nice outfit that morning, and walk in the door for your company to get real results. You have to think about how you'll cut through all the "noise" to get in touch with your target audience.
    Date of Article: 03May2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Search Engine Optimization: It's Not Who You Know, It's Who Knows You
    Just as with prom queens, your small business's website's search engine ranking results are about popularity. It's not the links on your site that contribute to raising your ranking but the links coming into your site from other sites that help you to rank better.
    Date of Article: 02May2008
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • Why your Business Brand Shouldn't Be An Exact Mirror Image Of You
    Customers and prospects are more concerned about their needs, their businesses, and their situations than they are about how good you are. What they want to know is how you're going to help them. And if you're a one-person business, they're likely to be more concerned about the fact that you're the only one there rather than being thrilled about your experience.
    Date of Article: 01May2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • How Your Business Should Act Like A Snowflake
    Just like snowflakes, your business will have several different types of uniqueness. On the surface, you'll want your brand and marketing materials to look unique, so that when all of your materials go out, they can stand out from your competitions'.
    Date of Article: 30Apr2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Your Small Business's Search Engine Ranking Emergency
    No one wants an emergency—but if you've got one on your hands, it's good to know the steps to take to "stabilize the patient." If your small business emergency is that your website isn't showing up on the search engines, there a couple of steps you can take right now. You just have to check 2 things to perform Search Engine CPR on your site:
    Date of Article: 06Apr2008
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • Do You Really Need To Come In First Place?
    Whenever I talk to a client about search engine placement, this track meet comes into mind. The client comes to me wanting to be #1 for their chosen search term. But for many small businesses, being ranked first is not truly that important—and depending on the search term, being #1 may hurt their business.
    Date of Article: 05Apr2008
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • The Search Engine Trinity
    Like Cajun food, getting a small business listed on the search engines also is based on a trinity of components. These components give your search engine efforts a base to be built off of, and ensure that you'll be successful. Those are: the ease of getting listed, the effectiveness of your listing, and then finally, the level of placement.
    Date of Article: 04Apr2008
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • How To Make Your Website Structurally Sound
    You've decided to build a website. Great! Your first step is to determine its structure—the pages you want to include and the information you want provide to visitors. But how to begin? Your first instinct may be to make your site different from everyone else's. After all, trying to differentiate your business is what you've been doing throughout your branding process.
    Date of Article: 03Apr2008
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • Time to "Get Over" the Rainbow (in your logo, that is)
    Ah, rainbows. They're beautiful things, stretching across the sky, like Mother Nature apologizing for wet, nasty weather. It's no wonder that so many people love them. But, love can quickly turn to hate if you use a many-colored palette in your business brand.
    Date of Article: 02Apr2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Signs It's Time To Redesign Your Company's Brand
    When you first start a small business, you create your brand based on your hopes and plans for the future of the company. Sometimes this is based on experience, but more often than not it's based on a guess. Then once you actually start doing business, you may find that your business isn't following the same path you set out on.
    Date of Article: 09Dec2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • How to Make Sure Your Website Won't Need a Do-Over
    When you were young, do-overs were an easy way to resolve an argument, fix unfairness or quickly change history. Why wouldn't you want to be able to do this with your business website? Unlike the playground game, designing a website takes a lot of time, work and money — it's just not a task that you're going to want to start over from scratch again!
    Date of Article: 08Dec2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • The Domino Effect of Changing Your Logo
    It's a rainy afternoon and you've got a hot cup of tea and a box of dominoes. You set them up on end, one next to the other in a snaking line across your dining room table. Then you bump the first domino and watch as the rest fall down, one after the other.
    Date of Article: 07Dec2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • The Building Blocks of Visual Vocabulary: Flexibility
    Just like the sidekicks help out a superhero, your Visual Vocabulary together with your logo helps put the kapow into your brand identity. These Visual Vocabulary "sidekicks" are the graphics, font styles, colors, and layouts you use in your materials, and even the type of paper you print your materials on. One of the best features of a Visual Vocabulary is its flexibility.
    Date of Article: 08Oct2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Why Entrepreneurs Divorce Their Logos (And Why It's A Bad Idea)
    Remember how excited you were when you first designed your logo? How beautiful you thought it was, and how you couldn't wait to get your first batch of business cards printed so you could show it off? How you excitedly described its meaning and subtleties to your mom (and your clients?) And the rush to the trademark office to get your new love "made official"—what excitement when the papers finally arrived!
    Date of Article: 07Oct2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Signs It's Time To Redesign Your Website
    Designing your first website is a stressful undertaking. It requires you to dig deep into your business in order to write the copy for your site. You need to work with a designer and go through the process of creating a site that looks unique and works well. And finally, after all that, you're finished and it's time for the site to go live. Unfortunately, websites don't last forever.
    Date of Article: 06Oct2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • 9 Keys to an Effective Logo
    The right logo, with the right characteristics, will boost your visibility, credibility and memorablity – which means more business for you! These characteristics include...
    Date of Article: 05Oct2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • What Rushing Your Design Project Really Means
    If you don't plan to allow enough time for your project to be designed, printed and delivered, then you may still be able to have your project completed in time, but the design will have to be rushed. This means that your designer will put aside other client's work and work late nights, even weekends, to get your project out - but at a price. And the price takes several forms other than just financial.
    Date of Article: 04Oct2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Get Your Website Launched!
    There are many elements in a website design project. Elements may include the overall strategy, the site map, site contents, design, coding, and more. It's tempting to keep tinkering and adjusting the various components until they're perfect. But you should remember that while you're editing the website, it stays on your designer's temporary server for testing or on your desktop — and never gets launched.
    Date of Article: 03Oct2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • 13 Tips for Finding a Graphic Designer
    Are you ready to hire someone to design your logo, collaterals, or artwork for your website? Well, here's just the information you need to get the best results from hiring your first (or your first successful) graphic designer. To assure that we begin on the same page, a graphic designer designs your marketing materials — the print- and web-ready art which are then turned over to a printer or coded for the web for the final outcome.
    Date of Article: 25Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • 9 Tips for Getting the Best Work From Your Graphic Designer
    A graphic designer's goal is to provide you with the logos, artwork and page designs that best fit your business, personality, industry, and target market and conveys your offerings and differentiators. The experience of reaching that goal can be extremely smooth and pleasant if you know what to expect upfront, and if you understand that you do need to work with your designer, as opposed to just letting them loose to create with little input.
    Date of Article: 24Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Types of Logos: Text, Symbol and Combination Logos
    There are three basic types of logos: text, symbol, and combination logos. The type of logo that will work best for your company depends on a number of considerations, such as the size of your company, the uniqueness of your name, and a variety of other factors.
    Date of Article: 20Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • How to Make Your Website Search-Engine Friendly
    One of your ultimate goals when creating your small business website will be to ensure that the website can be found by clients and prospects using Internet search engines (for example, Google, Yahoo!, and so forth). But there's not a lot of understandable information available about what the average small business owner can do to improve the number of search engine "hits" their websites get.
    Date of Article: 19Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Font Basics for Branding Your Small Business
    You've designed your logo. Now you need to create some great marketing pieces to promote your business. But what pieces to create? There are so many options available that it can be difficult to decide which pieces will be the strongest and best way to publicize your business. No matter what that business is, we recommend these pieces as a first step toward marketing it.
    Date of Article: 18Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • The Layers of Your Brand
    Branding is a hot topic in marketing these days, but it's defined in different ways and looked at from different angles. There are many components that make up a brand, and we call each component a Brand Layer.
    Date of Article: 17Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Follow Up With Your Clients
    A follow-up tool such as a post card, HTML newsletter, or note card is essential to make sure that your services stay "top-of-mind" with the people that you meet. It's said that a prospect needs to hear from you seven times before they will make a purchase. So it's important to create tools and a system to enable you to followup with your prospects once you've made that initial connection.
    Date of Article: 16Sep2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • Business Card Basics
    Making a great first impression often begins with your business card. Your business card is typically the first of your marketing materials that a new client will see. It should clearly tell your client who you are and what you do at first glance.
    Date of Article: 15Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • The Great Two-Sided Business Card Debate
    A business card is one of the most important marketing pieces that you'll develop for your company, since it is typically the first piece of your marketing materials that a new client will see. One of the most debated points in business card design is whether to print information on just one side of the card or to use both sides. There are many views on this controversy, and here are some that we frequently hear.
    Date of Article: 14Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • The Art of Website Maintenance
    Now that you've designed and launched your website, you have a powerful marketing tool for your business. But, your website is only as useful as the content is current. The process of keeping the content on your site current is called website maintenance, and it's important to keep both visitors and search engines supplied with new information.
    Date of Article: 13Sep2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • No Logo?: Launching a Business Without a Logo Can Sabotage You
    The initial lack of customers and cash flow often causes new small business owners to put off designing a logo and marketing materials professionally "until they get a few clients" or "until they get started." Unfortunately, designing their own marketing materials when they launch their businesses instead of having them professionally created will make getting those initial clients more difficult.
    Date of Article: 22Aug2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • 15 Reasons Small Businesses Need a Brand Identity System
    Business and marketing experts urge small business owners to "brand" their businesses with a logo and a set of consistent marketing materials — a brand identity system. But they rarely explain the reasons behind this advice. A logo and consistent marketing materials can increase your sales and revenue, because they convey the following impressions...
    Date of Article: 21Aug2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Three Brand Identity Myths That Will Bring Your Business Down
    "Brand identity" is the combination of consistent visual elements that are used in your marketing materials. A basic brand identity kit consists of a logo, business card, letterhead, and envelope. It can be extended to include a Web site, brochure, folder, flyer, or any other professionally designed pieces. Many business owners have misconceptions about brand identities that can damage their businesses.
    Date of Article: 20Aug2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Stop Making Excuses. Your Website Must Match Your Other Marketing Materials
    At first glance the title of this article sounds obvious — that your website would look like all your other marketing materials. Of course that's just something that would have to happen, right? But I run into more and more entrepreneurs who want to break this rule. Creating a website that looks significantly different from all of your other marketing materials just tends to be a bad idea.
    Date of Article: 19Aug2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • Why Isn't Your Website Working Well?
    One of the biggest problems that small businesses face is ineffective websites. A website is often one of the largest start-up marketing expenses for a small business; unfortunately, many small businesses never see a return on that investment. Why do most websites have this problem? And how can you fix it?
    Date of Article: 18Aug2007
    Category: Computers & Internet
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  • Good Design Doesn't Get Done In A Day: Part 2 of 2
    With all of these considerations, it might seem that you need to start planning your design project many months in advance of your event. But the truth is that a lot of these steps can be done quickly. It still is advisable to allow as much time as possible to address each step thoroughly and without rushing the project. If you follow this method your finished design will usually be better and more effective.
    Date of Article: 17Aug2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Good Design Doesn't Get Done In A Day: Part 1 of 2
    Lead time is one of the most often overlooked aspects of a design project. For some projects it's not a huge concern — you just need to get your designs reasonably quickly so you can start marketing. You should expect quick service from any designer.
    Date of Article: 20Jul2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Designing Your Email Newsletter
    Another commonly-asked question is how to design the newsletter to make it the most effective. This breaks down into several questions and considerations:
    Date of Article: 19Jul2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • Why You Need To Get An Email Newsletter Service
    An email newsletter is one of the most convenient and easy ways to keep in touch with your clients and prospects. So you've made the decision to design an email newsletter to use as your follow up tool in your brand design toolkit? The next decision is how to manage the newsletter from a technical perspective.
    Date of Article: 10Jul2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • How to Determine Whether You've Chosen a Good Niche
    Choosing a niche—a small, focused target market—for your services can be very beneficial to your business. It will help your clients to focus on and identify the services that you offer, and it will help you to develop deep expertise in a single area—and "niching" will help you to raise your rates and create a successful business.
    Date of Article: 09Jul2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Define Your Difference To Stand Out and Make Your Business Shine
    Thoughtfully defining your business—and your differentiation—will help you to understand who you are, what you do, and what makes you different. Not many small businesses take the time to answer those core questions about their business, but those answers are essential to creating a strong brand identity, focused messaging, and effective marketing materials.
    Date of Article: 08Jul2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Focus Your Definition
    You have so much important information that soon all of your marketing materials are crammed full of text and information. Most small business owners have this problem. They are so excited about their business and everything they can do for their clients. They make the mistake of putting it all into their marketing materials.
    Date of Article: 07Jul2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Marketing Tips
    General graphic design and marketing tips for small businesses
    Date of Article: 06Jul2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • The 9 Advantages to Using a Visual Vocabulary in Brand Identity Design
    Visual elements are a major part of your business's brand identity design. The keystone of that design is the logo, but in many cases, the logo isn't enough to convey all of your brand attributes. A visual vocabulary is a way to reinforce and add to the messaging that is contained in your logo.
    Date of Article: 27Jun2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Logo Files: Versions of your logo that you should own
    Your logo is the most important graphic element in which you will invest for your business. You should own the logo in many file formats. Having a library of logo files will enable you to send vendors the types of files they need (for example, other designers, printers, or other service providers).
    Date of Article: 25Jun2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Building a One-page Website
    You've designed your logo, and you're ready to print your business cards and other marketing collateral materials. You want to include your website address (also called a URL) to build your credibility. However, you're not quite ready to write and design a full website. What to do?
    Date of Article: 23Jun2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • 9 Keys to an Effective Website
    Many small companies choose not to invest in a professionally designed website, although a well-designed Web site may raise the company's level of professionalism and exposure – AND drive business and sales!
    Date of Article: 21Jun2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Creating Your Home Page
    Clients often look to us at elf design to provide them with ideas about what belongs on a simple home page. In response, we often direct them to several home pages that we have designed in the past, as well as some other samples, to help guide them and to begin our conversation about what to include on their home page.
    Date of Article: 29May2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • Pages to Include in Your Website
    Building a Website may appear to be very complex, but it's really an easy process. The best way to start is by developing a map of the pages and content that you want to include. This depends upon the type of business you have, and how informative you want your Website to be. Below is a list of sample pages for you to review while you plan out your site.
    Date of Article: 28May2007
    Category: Internet Marketing/Online Business
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  • Color Part 2: Formats and Systems
    There are several color formats and systems available for mixing and specifying colors. Here, we explain three of the most common systems: RGB, CMYK, and Pantone colors.
    Date of Article: 22May2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Starter Website Plan for a Service Business
    For many small businesses, getting even a basic website up can be a daunting task! To simplify the process, we've created a basic site map for a starter website for a service business, which requires a minimum of work on your part
    Date of Article: 21May2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Color Part 1: Accuracy
    Color is one of the most difficult parts of a design to show accurately to a client. Color perception can be affected by many factors, including:
    Date of Article: 27Apr2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • 9 Keys to Building a Stand-Out Brand Identity
    Brand identity is the combined effect of visual elements in your marketing materials. A basic brand identity kit consists of a logo, business card, letterhead, and branded envelope. This basic set of materials can be extended to include a website, brochure, folder, flyer, or any other professionally designed pieces.
    Date of Article: 26Apr2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Planning Ahead For Visual Consistency: Information your designer should give you for future referenc
    While we recommend that you contract with the same designer or design team while creating your brand identity materials as possible, we know that this scenario is not always possible. Whenever you work with a designer other than the original who created your logo, stationery and marketing materials, we suggest a few practices that will prove invaluable for ensuring a consistent look and feel across all of your marketing communications.
    Date of Article: 21Apr2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Splitting a Brand Design Project Between Two Design Firms
    Splitting a branding project typically results in a lack of consistency between pieces in your marketing kit. All of your brand materials should have similar design elements. When a project is split among different design firms, often those firms don't have a similar style, and you can wind up with print collateral, for example, that looks dramatically different from your website.
    Date of Article: 20Apr2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • To Tag Or Not To Tag?
    A tagline is a succinct phrase that communicates some of the basics of your brand. Ideally, your tagline is also memorable and helps your target audience relate to your business. If used correctly, a tagline can be a powerful part of your marketing strategy.
    Date of Article: 19Apr2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • All About Visual Vocabulary and how it can help your small business
    Think of your logo as the "superhero" of your brand, and the Visual Vocabulary elements as its "sidekicks"; in many design applications and finished materials, your logo won't appear by itself. It will have the help of all of these Visual Vocabulary elements to accomplish its job of communicating and connecting with your target market.
    Date of Article: 11Apr2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Choosing the Right Color Palette For Your Brand Identity
    Color is a highly personal experience—everyone has favorite colors, and other colors that they absolutely don't like. So, how do you determine which colors that will work for your business identity, and that will send the right message to your potential clients.
    Date of Article: 10Apr2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Contact Information To Include On Your Business Card
    The logo and graphic elements that you include on your business card are quite important, but having the right text and contact information on the card is equally important. Here are my tips about the elements to include:
    Date of Article: 28Mar2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • The Building Blocks of Visual Vocabulary: Consistency
    Your Visual Vocabulary consists of the secondary design elements that are used in conjunction with your logo to form your brand identity. Your Visual Vocabulary is composed of the graphics, font styles, colors, and even the type of paper you choose. Once you have determined the elements to use in your Visual Vocabulary, it is important to use those elements consistently throughout all of your marketing materials.
    Date of Article: 27Mar2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Digital Printing vs. Press Printing—A Comparison Guide
    When it comes time to print your brand identity materials, there's one overarching question for you to consider—whether to print the resulting materials on a digital printer or traditional press. There are many differences between the two processes, some of which are outlined below.
    Date of Article: 03Mar2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Create Your Marketing Machine to Plan for Marketing Success
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