With smartphones becoming increasingly popular, more companies are seeing the importance of developing branded apps for Android, Blackberry and iPhone. Lots of companies opt to go for a basic app that provides product information and includes a mobile store. While this is useful, it’s not a very creative use of an app. The great thing […]
The other day I was looking up a business and went to their website. I searched around a bit on the website and saw case studies from 2001. It made me stop and think about the company. Do I want to engage with a company that has 10-year-old case studies? I then went to check […]
Setting up a Facebook page is easy, but the hard part comes when you’ve got to figure out what to do with it. Ice cream shop Cold Stone Creamery is one company that has done an amazing job working with Facebook pages and has shown that they really understand the marketing potential of Facebook. Cold […]
All too often, companies ponder if it’s worth it to invest in marketing activities such as branding. There is a misconception of that task to begin with, but for the sake of making this post short-ish, let’s assume business owners know that branding is more than having a “cool” logo and tagline. The misconception is […]
Back in the day, many businesses relied on word of mouth for advertising. There’s nothing more effective than someone you know giving a personal recommendation for a product. It has always worked fairly well. Someone really loves your product, so they tell their friends and those friends tell other friends, and it continues on. (Like […]
I read an article from Ars Technica earlier this week that really got me thinking. It was about a study done at Elizabethtown College about how adding personal tweets to your business Twitter feed can affect your credibility. Most people would think that business accounts should be just that – business accounts. That’s understandable, as […]
Three years ago I purchased a book called “Watch This, Listen Up, Click Here”, with the intent to read it on a flight to Toronto. After a couple weeks of sitting on my coffee table, it got added to a growing “read this” pile. It wasn’t until last week that I finally got around to […]
Investing in a credible brand image for your company, product or service is critical to raising capital. It not only makes you look like a winner, it instills confidence and trust in your potential investor. Have you ever watched Shark Tank or Dragon’s Den? Most often, the entrepreneurs who get funding from the investors on […]
By simple definition, a landing page is the first page you arrive at after clicking a search result, email campaign or banner ad. People sometimes mistake a “landing page” for a website’s homepage because it’s the first place they are pointed to. Some people prefer to bookmark a landing page instead of a home page. […]
For many organizations caught in the wake of the recent social media tsunami, there is a growing sense of urgency to adopt a social media strategy. That’s great, but since social media and branding are both CEO-driven initiatives, they are only as good as the people behind them. Developing an authentic and open social presence […]
