Curiosity Didn’t Kill The Cat: How Negativity Can Improve Your Brand

No matter how hard you try to create a great company with great products and services, there is going to be that one person that doesn’t like what you have to offer, and they’ll turn to their friends, family, and Internet strangers and let them know how much they didn’t like their experience with your company. When businesses receive negative feedback or know there’s someone out there talking bad about them, they tend to panic. After all, doesn’t negative information about your business mean it’s going to fail?…

Braille on Business Cards – Not Just for The Blind

Networking is important for all business people, including those who are blind. One way to make your business card get noticed and make a profound statement supporting diversity is to simply add braille. What Is Braille, and Why Should It Be on a Business Card? Braille is a form of written language for the blind that consists of raised dots that are “read” by being felt by the fingertips. Louis Braille, a Frenchman who became blind at the age of three, created the system when he was a teenager. …

Black Sheep Branding: How to stand out from the flock

Most businesses give key information right in their names. Starbucks Coffee. Nationwide Insurance. Dunkin Donuts. Your brand isn’t about the service you provide, it’s about what makes your company the absolute best option. A fill-in-the-blanks website and mass produced logo will let potential customers know what your business does – but that’s about it. In an age where there are hundreds of choices available, your brand must be about what makes you different. Be metaphorical Many of the most successful brands have symbolic logos.…

Top 5 Air New Zealand’s Safety Videos: Smart Brand Marketing Campaign in Action

Kia Ora! Want some inspirations in how to do proper brand marketing for your small business via videos? Learn from Air New Zealand, NZ’s national airline and flag carrier. Their reputation is world-known – it’s probably due to their infamous, far-from-boring flight safety videos, worth talking on socialsphere. If you are not sure about what I am talking about, I recommend you to view these videos and decide yourself whether they deserve Air New Zealand’s YouTube Channel‘s 13,000+ subscribers and 23,000,000+ video views or not… 1.…

New Domain Name Extensions: Big Branding Opportunities for Small Business?

Domain name business is huge – just ask Name.com, GoDaddy.com, Namecheap.com and any other accredited domain name registrars. ICANN, the governing body responsible for coordination of domain name system and some other Internet systems, has initiated the new gTLDs program, which purpose is to introduce literally hundreds of new domain name extensions for the general public to register. As we who deal with everything Internet know it, a domain name is the foundation of your small business online presence. Unfortunately, some business owners are just being ignorant, choosing whatever domain names come up, thinking that those dot-coms or dot-whatever are just ‘cosmetics.’…