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Write Marketing Emails that Compel Action

Email marketing remains a highly effective resource for connecting with prospective customers. But for every well-crafted marketing email message, there are hundreds that fail to observe certain key guidelines, thus extinguishing any hope of converting the reader to a buying customer. To make your email messaging as effective and compelling as possible, we suggest the.

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What Is Typography?

From a descriptive and simplistic point-of-view, typography is the art and technique of arranging type. Most people never think about typography. They don’t understand the psychological effect it has in relation to conveying a message. If you have ever seen the movie, “The Holiday”, then you know that Cameron Diaz’s character, Amanda Woods is a.

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Website Objectives vs. Personal Preferences

Being a designer for over a decade now, I’ve witnessed many clients let their personal preferences dictate design and thwart the overall objective of the design. The purpose of graphic and web design is to communicate and support marketing objectives. Marketing all goes back to meeting the unmet psychological needs and wants of your target.

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The Importance of W3C Standards

Back in the “old days,” the Internet was a lot like the Wild West. There were few standards for coding, page design, and browser compatibility. Many different web browsers vied for market dominance. And with the lack of standards, most websites did not work well with all browsers. If you needed information from a web.

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Marketing Your Product Isn’t the Same as Marketing Your Service

Every business needs a marketing plan—a strategy for reaching its target audience with a message that’s designed to appeal to their needs and desires, or offer solutions to their problems. But there’s a world of difference between putting together a marketing plan when you’re in the business of selling lawn mowers or when you own.

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Pantone: The Worldwide Web of Color

The Pantone Color Matching System is a universally accepted system for identifying, matching and communicating colors across virtually all forms of product design and marketing. Using this system ensures that colors in printed pieces precisely match a designer’s preferred color choices and that colors online perform properly in differing web browsers. In this respect, Pantone.

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Five Creative Ways to Build Your Brand

Branding is a key ingredient in any marketing plan. Your brand communicates who you are and what you do as a business. It helps you stand out from competitors in your market. And it represents a promise to your customers that when they buy your product or service, they will receive a certain value every.

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Tips for Working with Website Developers

When building websites, site designers and copywriters get most of the attention. However, there’s another key player that often gets overlooked in the process: the web developer. The designer creates the look and feel of the website, and the writer crafts the content. But it’s the developer who pulls it all together by writing the.

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There’s No Such Thing as a “Perfect” Website

When was the last time you looked at your business website through a visitor’s eyes? If your website’s look hasn’t changed recently, consider the impression it makes on first-time visitors (and prospective customers) who see the same content and graphic elements time and again. A bored visitor isn’t a repeat visitor. You may have loved.

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The Future of Print Design

For decades, printed marketing materials have served as both the backbone and the workhorse for marketing communications efforts. From brochures and one-sheets to white papers, client advisories and more, printed materials have led the way in conveying a company’s image and marketing messages to prospects and customers. Then along came the Internet and social media,.