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Small Business Brand Guidelines Made Simple
Your logo, colors, and voice should look and sound the same everywhere. Here is how to build simple small business brand guidelines your whole team will actually use.
Read MoreHow to Create a Marketing Plan Without a Marketing Team
If you are running a small or mid-sized business, you already wear more hats than a Broadway costume rack. Sales. Hiring. The mystery invoice that showed up twice. Somewhere in that pile sits marketing, quietly waiting for “when things calm down.” Spoiler: they rarely do. The good news is you do not need a full…
Read MoreExciting + Innovative New Business and Product Launch
Client: Bullistic Barriers, LLC., View Website On December 19th we got the call…. The call that would send us into a frenzy. A new business is going to launch its product line to the world and we were the team to make it happen. Launch dates and location were firm: March 4th Salt Lake City,…
Read MoreVerve Marketing & Design: Positioning the Truly Exceptional for Generations to Come
Verve Marketing & Design is a boutique firm celebrating 30 years of helping businesses realize their vision and achieve growth. Recently, Diane E. Lemonides, President & Brand Strategist, completed an exercise she’s taken clients through many times: re-branding and re-focusing. Having worked with many clients across various industries over the years, Lemonides realized her consulting…
Read MoreWestern Lullaby
At the age of 70, Lynn Estes Friess started writing children’s books and started her own publishing company. She was recently featured on The Balancing Act segment on the Today Show! Watch the segment below: What we did with this client: – Found an illustrator that was perfect for her story – Helped her set…
Read MoreThe Time of the Season
In nature, this is the time of the season to prepare the soil and get ready to plant. The same is true for Business. Before we plant our garden, we must clear the area. For plans to succeed we need to pull out what’s old and withered or broken. This is a good time to…
Read MoreThe Slow Movement
As I was packing my kid’s lunches in wax paper bags, I was feeling good that the contents of all the “bags” in the lunch boxes were healthy, home-cooked food. Okay, except for the granola bar. (I do make my own power bars but they fly out of the kitchen so fast it’s hard to…
Read MoreThe Convergence of Social Networking, E-Retailing and Integrated Media: Opportunities for Luxury Marketers
Facebook friend-ing. Twitter following. LinkedIn connecting. Blog postings. YouTube perusing. E-commerce purchasing. These social networking and integrated media tools have become a part of everyday life for people all over the world, both in their personal and professional lives. Although popular, one has to ponder whether we are really being social with this form of…
Read MoreNiche Marketing – The Spending Power of Women
Women serve many roles in our society – businesswoman, wife, mother, daughter, entrepreneur, sister, friend, teacher, aunt, expert (the list goes on and on) – and women make 80% of all consumer purchases on top of their other achievements. To exemplify the power of women in relation to economic stimuli, women spend on average $100…
Read MoreNiche Marketing — The Home Space
Our homes are as unique and varied as our personalities. Bringing life to an inanimate dwelling requires style, attitude and interior design to make the home space inviting and a form of personal expression. Whether you refer to your home as an abode, diggings or habitat, they all have something in common: the need for…
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