Someone told us recently that at many companies, products don't get launched, they escape. If that statement strikes you as more true than funny, let us introduce you to the five D's of effective product launches: Discover, Define, Design, Develop and Deliver.
If you want to see your email communication get results, you have to invest some time and energy into ensuring that what you are communicating is valuable to those receiving it.
Investigation and analysis of your competition and potential customer base are major components of a comprehensive market analysis. This checklist of resources for gathering market data provides perspective regarding common market research tools and methods.
Brand management and strategic design can communicate your company's ideals and increase business. Use these eight rules to make sure your branding efforts pay off.
If your company has a great product but little money to spend on branding, read on for eight tips designed to build your brand.
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While the benefits of good publicity are obvious, for many busy small business owners, generating press coverage can be a challenge. What many entrepreneurs do not realize is that there are valuable news stories hidden in a company’s day-to-day operations, and that packaging and distributing these to the media can be achieved using simple tips and tools.
Ever wonder why your competitors keep cropping up in coverage - whether it be national dailies, on big-time TV broadcasts or even in local business magazines - while your company's relegated to the back of the trades?
Unfortunately, if you allow the people producing your communicationmaterials to interpret your brand on their own, your brand message can end up with a distorted meaning by the time it reaches your audience.You must have a system for policing your brand and its meaning in place. First, you need a clear set of laws so everyone with a role in communicating your brand knows exactly what the rules are. Second, you need to assign people (or cops, so to speak) to watch over your brand and make sure the laws aren?t being broken.
Sometimes the right word (or the wrong word) can totally make (or break) your sale. Here are some words and phrases to use and some words and phrases to avoid during your next sales transaction.