You Can Do It: Build a Brand

I wish I had known about Open Brand sooner. It could have saved me so much time trying to understand what my clients wanted to convey with their brand, with fewer emails!

Instead of extracting bits of information a little at a time, I can have my clients fill out an Open Brand profile and just dump everything they have into one place. Then we can discuss all the existing brand assets once I know what I’m working with.

Small businesses that take their branding seriously and manage their own brand can do so much with Open Brand. It keeps all of your branding assets such as your fonts, images, logos, stationary, etc. organized and in one place so when passing along materials to a designer or a marketer, he or she can understand all of the elements in relation to each other.

It also helps small businesses develop their brand mission, values and attributes by having sections attributed to each. If you didn’t think these things through when you were writing a business plan, now would be a great time to decide in what direction you want to take your business.

Small businesses can build a profile for free so if you’re getting ready to overhaul your brand or finally step up your branding, I highly recommend it. Open Brand will guide you step by step.

Link Love: How to Build Better Links

SEO Linkbuilding

Which link is better? A.) For the best halloween costume ever, click here B.) Check out the best halloween costume ever Both links take you to the same page (which really might be the best costume ever) but the option B link is better, because the anchor text (clickable text) describes what the page is [...]

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Web Design: Magento eCommerce Store

Undercover Tape Website

When Michele and Michelle approached me to create an online store for their first product Undercover Tape, I was thrilled. I love helping my clients build new companies. They wanted a site with advance eCommerce options that would grow with them as they added more products so I suggested Magento Go. Besides WordPress, Magento is [...]

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Online Marketing Guides

Hot Air Balloons

There are three essential elements to online marketing that I recommend to all of my clients. Get your own site, optimize it for local search and collect your customers emails so you can keep in touch with them. All small businesses can do this and see a continual flow of new customers and returning customers. [...]

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