
Branding
Visual Marketing Is Here – 5 Ways You Can Use It To Sell Your Ideas
Famous logo designs and how much did they cost?
4 Brands That Know How to Tell a Story
Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. She was recently elected to serve on the board of directors of WOMMA. What makes a brand stand out from its competition? For some, it’s their cutting-edge design, for others it’s their customer service.Can you tell what these items are without their brandings? | Digital Trends
It’s no secret that branding is powerful: Fonts, shapes, colors are all part of what we associate with certain brands. Without the words, we can tell the swoosh is part of the Nike franchise, and a yellow M is a straight sign to your local McDonald’s. In fact, if these clues were part of the mobile gaming app Draw Something , that’s probably what you’d scribble down first. But can you recognize these brands and objects if you take the colors and logos away? That’s the idea behind the project Brand Spirit by Andrew Miller.Facebook Timeline: 9 Best Practices for Brands
4 Tools to Enhance Brand Engagement on Facebook
10 Ways to Humanize Your Brand on Social Media
Joe Chernov is the VP of Content Marketing for Eloqua. He is responsible for creating, distributing and measuring content that increases awareness and drives demand. Marketers are suckers for a catch phrase, from “join the conversation” to “think like a publisher.” Now, thanks largely to Facebook Timeline for brand pages, the new marketing slogan has quickly become, “humanize the brand.” Humanizing a brand simply means trying to interact with each customer on a personal level. But for a company to implement that style, there needs to be a shift in how it responds to customers, particularly via social media.Srinivas Penumaka There’s no shortage of folks developing tools to help companies make sense out of social networking chatter. Last year, Salesforce.com gobbled up Radian6 for up to $326 million, while other Seattle upstarts such as Prosodic, Simply Measured and Visible Technologies also are attacking the opportunity.
Startup Spotlight: ReadyPulse turns Twitter, Facebook followers into ‘brand advocates’
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