Pager Rank update
Filed under: Marketing by Sasha on October 27, 2007
Yes, it happened. Google has started a Page Rank update. The last one was “who knows when” and I was really looking forward to this update until I saw what Google has done. Great blogs like www.connectedinternet.co.uk and www.onemansblog.com got Page Rank of 3 and 4. If you look at your Google toolbar you will notice that my blog also has a Page Rank of 4 after this update but I am sure that the number and quality of links pointing to my site is much lower that to John’s blog…
What have we learned from this update? Nothing really. All I can say that Google is doing some weird stuff and that they have really surprised me with this one….
Weird Google…..
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In Favor of Promotional Items
Filed under: Reviews by Sasha on October 15, 2007
Of all types of promotional items my favorite is promotional magnets. What so particular about magnets you ask? Magnets are perfect advertising vehicles due to the specific properties that they have. Here is a list of facts about promotional magnets that proves they are the best promo gifts ever:
- Endless design options. There are almost no boundaries in designing your magnets: any print colors, shapes, sizes - any design concept is perfectly implementable with magnets.
- Decorative use. Promotional magnets surly add some homely comfort to any interior just like any bookshelf souvenirs, wall posters, etc. A bright color logo magnet would look so nice on a refrigerator door, dress box or car.
- Magnetic properties. Magnets have lots of practical uses due to their magnetic properties - one of the most popular ones is holding memo notes, messages, etc on metal furniture. What is the most vivid spot in a kitchen? The refrigerator! When you want to leave a memo note for your loved one and want it to be noticed you use a magnet to attach it to the fridge door. (That’s why promotional magnets are also called refrigerator magnets)
- Informative. There are so many design ideas that you can implement in a promotional magnet! One of the best ones is a business card magnet with your logo, list of services, business address, phones, working hours imprinted on it. Ideal concept for advertising to local public such services as car repair, plumbing, household appliances repair, barber shop, etc. Once such business magnet finds its way to someone’s refrigerator door - it is most likely to stay there for very long! Be sure - soon you’ll get a phone call from the host inquiring about your services.
How to make a brand from a trademark
Filed under: Marketing by Sasha on October 1, 2007
In our rapidly developing world there is not enough to establish a trademark that will guarantee your firm or corporation a great success and your employees a lot of benefits. You are to do your utmost to turn your trademark into a brand, a mirror of your services and the products you offer. To realize how important your trademark can finally become – sometimes it takes ages especially if you are not able to define the ultimate goal and you can not predict the market development as well as your potential clients’ needs.
To find out what is the best strategy of creating a brand that will be working for you for years you are to define how you are going to make it visible, to make it necessary for our everyday life and to convince everyone that without this or that product, without this or that service their well-being can not be possible, their success will be limited, their life will be dull and boring. Anyway, there is no working guide how to build a brand – all you can use is just an adoption of the previous successful marketing strategies of creating a brand: business plans, business logics and so on. This is the right way of doing business and promoting your services, though sometimes it is better to delegate this bunch of work to companies that are ready to promote your type of business, whatever you are involved in. This is also clear and practically everyone is aware of the special marketing agencies that can offer you direct marketing, search engine marketing, net marketing and etc. At the same time there are companies that can help you to promote your brand in quite another way.
Every one of us has got promotional items once or many times in our life. What are the promotional items? Frankly speaking these are just ordinary things like pens, packs, bookmarks or a bottle opener with some logo on them. These are the logos of different companies that have ordered such kind of tiny presents for everyone in order to make their trademark popular. This is another kind of promotion and it is not just an effective way to make your brand visible but to remain on your feet as well. It’s not a secret that sooner or later world-known brands are becoming more and more unpopular due to an increasing number of competitors that offer the same services, that sell the same goods cheaper, provide their services faster and more qualitatively.
There is also one more important thing: a good chief executive officer understands that in order to raise or to keep the corporative spirit of his employees they are to be presented with some kind of corporate gifts, again, with different custom mugs, promotional apparel, whatever! The main thing is to make them happy, to make them realize that they are THE TEAM that can perform absolutely anything if they collaborate. And they WILL collaborate successfully. Such small things cost minimum but with an imprinted logo of your company they can convert it to a world-known corporation and make your trademark a BRAND!
