In 2015, the beauty industry generated $56.2 billion in revenue in the United States alone, and the industry’s sales are expected to reach about $42.5 billion by the year 2019. If you’re in the business of personal grooming, beauty products,…
Whether you’re an established entrepreneur or just starting out, as a small business owner, you probably “wear many hats.” You have to provide your service or product and promote and market your business. That’s easier said than done. You just…
Going through a rebrand is simply a way to freshen your business’s brand. It could include updating your logo, altering your color scheme, redoing the font on your business cards, or reworking your website. Whether the changes are subtle or…
Whether they announce a new product, showcase an event name, or raise brand awareness, vinyl banners have a prominent and established place in the marketing world—even in the digital age. Vinyl banners appear at product rollouts, conferences, and tradeshows. They…
When it comes to branding and marketing, there are two overarching categories: the controllable and the uncontrollable. The issue that many businesses face in the early days is focusing too much on the latter while unintentionally ignoring the former. As…
No doubt you’ve heard the amusing story about Chevrolet’s launch of a new model in Latin America. The car was popular in the US, so the launch team simply used the same model and name: Nova. In the states, a…
One of the basic tools of a business is the letterhead. And if you need something with fancy design or colorful headers and footers, you might be want to contact a good designer for their help (this will likely cost…
A few weeks ago we wrote a bit about when you need to start thinking about design as you work on your startup. That post covers stuff like when you need to get a logo and hire a designer (if you…
You may have read the best-selling Hunger Games trilogy—the story of children forced to fight (and kill) each other in a dystopian society and the rebellion that follows. Or you may have seen one of the popular movies based on the…
Last year, Google announced that they would start supporting schema.org markup language for organization logos. For those of you who aren’t web programmers, that means that you can add a bit of code to your website that tells Google which…