Learn what 900 attendees and organizers said. Are you struggling to organize and create great experiences for virtual and hybrid events? A recent survey collected from over 900 event organizers and attendees by Whova, an all-in-one event management software company that focuses on in-person, hybrid, and virtual events, revealed their thoughts on and expectations for hybrid events. The… More »
Guy Kawasaki’s Top 10 Tips on How to Be an Entrepreneur
As an entrepreneur, you face new challenges every day and all you can think about is the taste of your first success. Everyone has a different recipe for success and Guy Kawasaki shared his insights at the latest event of the Women In Consulting (WIC), proudly sponsored by ThinkResults Marketing. Guy discussed his latest book… More »
Your Brain on Logos: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Logo Design
Our brains are very interesting places. Neuroscience is finding more and more fascinating information on how we process and store information based on MRI research. Design is no stranger to the world of influencing human behaviour and in a recent article on how your brain “sees” logos, I found some very interesting findings. First, here is… More »
Microsoft Ventures Demo Day: A Sneak Peek into the Future of Home Automation
Microsoft Ventures‘ first Seattle Demo Day on Dec. 10 was a huge success. Nearly 400 people crowded into the small venue featuring the ten startups that have been in residence since August 2014. All ten companies have home automation technology as that was the theme for this first round of companies for Microsoft Ventures Seattle, in… More »
What is the True Purpose of Marketing?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the function of marketing lately and its role in the business. What IS our true purpose in marketing? Perhaps it was seeing lava flowing on the Big Island over Thanksgiving and the calm reaction of the residents as it slowly shifted directions, burning up everything in its slow progression…. More »
The Dangerous World of Rebranding: The New Airbnb Launch
While there has been a ton of controversy about the new Airbnb logo design (it’s too sexual, it looks too much like another logo launched at nearly the same time), dubbed Bélo, I want to speak out in its defense, and in defense of their overall launch strategy. On the day of the launch of the… More »
Using Vine and Instagram to Your Video Marketing Advantage
Vine and Instagram are the happy marriage of video marketing and social media. It can be a challenge to create video content for these social media platforms because they have extremely short time limits. Almost all the typical formats of video marketing mentioned in our last video marketing post are possible on Vine and Instagram, but it does… More »
7 Fresh Ideas for New Video Content
As a follow up to the earlier 4 Tips for Video Marketing Success post, here are seven different video types to inspire some fresh approaches to your video marketing strategy. 1. “How to” and Tutorials How to’s, tutorials, tips and tricks, and product demonstrations are all very popular video formats because they help customers see… More »
Six Simple Rules for Your Next Website Design
These six basic but oh-so-often violated simple rules should guide the design for any website. Despite the simplicity of these, we’ve seen every single one of these rules being broken over the years — from different sets of navigation on each page of a website to a home page containing a book’s worth of content…. More »
4 Tips for Video Marketing Success
Video is such an important element of any marketing strategy because it gives marketers the power to show, instead of tell. If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a video worth? Here are 4 Tips to Successful Video Marketing: 1. Create Great Content The first step in successful video marketing… More »
Want the Golden Ring? Tips for Success from a Top VC
I recently interviewed Trae Vasallo, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) because I wanted to get her perspective on coaching women and launching great technology companies. I had heard about her on many occasions and was encouraged to seek her out. Calling up one of the most powerful VCs in the world… More »
Whose Logo Is It Anyway?
A client recently asked us about our logo design philosophy, which I thought was a very interesting and perceptive question (reflects the questioner well). To us, logo design is much like the rest of what we do. It’s centered around our belief that we are designing work for our clients’ use. That seems obvious but… More »
Move over PPT … New Kids on the Block!
Just received this from a colleague who works at SlideRocket: This is a such a fun and hopeful story I just had to share. And, I had the opportunity to see it unfold first-hand as I am doing some work at this company (SlideRocket – think PPT on steroids!). We all know people who have… More »
Choosing Your Baby (Company)’s Name – Part IV
Over the last three weeks, I’ve shared some common rules I’ve used in naming new companies/products/services over the years. Hopefully these guidelines will be helpful to you. Another big decision in the naming process is deciding whether you really want a real word name (or a close approximation) like Apple or Google, or are willing… More »
Choosing Your Baby (Company)’s Name – Part III
Over the last two weeks, I shared some important rules about naming a company/product/service including making short, memorable, easy to say, with a good URL and being sure it won’t translate into something awful in another language. The final two rules include that the new name should be: 6. Available in your category – you will… More »
Choosing Your Baby (Company)’s Name – Part II
Last week, I talked about the importance of keeping the new company/product/service name short and memorable. Those two rules are a great start, and here are a few others to consider. The new name should be: 3. Easy to Pronounce – if people can’t figure out how to pronounce it, that will make it harder to… More »
Choosing Your Baby (Company)’s Name
So you’ve decided to have a … company. One of the first (of many) decisions is what to name it, right? This is an important, and often emotional, decision that is no less crucial than naming a baby. Except there can be more than one Brittany or Jennifer (trust me on that one … there… More »
Best Days to Send Email Messages
“What’s the best day for us to send our email message/newsletter?” I get this question A LOT from clients so I’ll share it here. I’ve always gone by a rule of thumb that messages should be sent on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays, only because Mondays are generally hectic and Fridays are check-out days. For this… More »