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... changing constantly-I think you get the idea. The two must be compatible. Evaluate each component of your overall marketing in the same way. Don't start with your latest advertising campaign. Save that for last. Begin at the beginning, as if you were a start-up. For example, my company's name, Sound Marketing, was chosen to represent the audio productions used in marketing, training, and education. As a noun, Sound' reflected the audio aspect; as an adjective, it means healthy, reliable, and good. Since education and training can be construed as both internal and external marketing, we decided on Sound Marketing' to reflect both our image and our mission. We wanted a logo to reflect our commitment to the corporate structure, but also to express a sense of artistic freedom. To achieve this, we selected an award-winning designer of music albums, rather than a traditional graphic artist, to create our logo. This artist designed an S' swash that hinted at perpetual motion and creativity, coupled with conventional block-style print for the word marketing', but dropping the crossbar in the letter A. The result: a logo that matches our image. We've made only one change over the years, switching from a bit-too-conservative gray to a more vibrant blue. From the logo, move on to evaluate your brochures, newsletters, flyers, direct mail pieces, Yellow Page ads, and finally your print and media advertising. At each point, ask if your corporate image fits the image of the piece. You may be surprised at how frequently image diverges from ...

... , but your marketing emphasis and direction changes constantly you get the idea. The two must be compatible. Its time to evaluate your overall marketing components. Dont start with your latest advertising campaign. Save that for last. Begin at the beginning, as if you were a start-up business. Take my company, Sound Marketing, as an example. We chose our name to represent audio productions used in marketing, training, and education. Sound as a noun reflected the audio aspect; as an adjective it meant healthy, reliable, good. Since education and training can be construed as both internal and external marketing, we decided on Sound Marketing as a name that reflected both our image and our mission. We wanted a logo that reflected our commitment to corporate structure, with a sense of artistic freedom. We selected an award-winning designer of music album covers, rather than a traditional graphic artist. This artist designed an S' logo that intimated perpetual motion and creativity, coupled with a conventional block-style print. The result: a logo that reinforces our image visually. Weve made only one change over the years: from a bit-too-conservative gray to a more vibrant blue. This story reinforces the need to start your evaluation process with the basics: your logo, your print style, your signage, your office decor. Do they reflect the real corporate you? From there, evaluate your brochures, newsletters, flyers, direct mail pieces, yellow page ads, and finally your print and media advertising. At each point, visualize your corporate image and ask if it fits with that image ...

... All Back Trust: It's The Bottom Line 4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Chris Burand This content has not been rated yet. Do your customers trust you - and, if so, what for? Wal-Mart is known for low prices. A very young boy was heard to say that when he grew up, he was going to build a company bigger than Wal-Mart by offering even lower prices — everything would be free! It would appear that much older sages haven't developed any better strategies. Despite Wal-Mart's phenomenal achievements, there's a darker side to their success. A plethora of articles cite the small businesses put out of business by Wal-Mart's arrival to their towns, discuss how Wal-Mart's gain is their suppliers' losses, and point out how Wal-Mart discourages artistic freedom by not selling certain recording artists, books, and magazines (since they're such a key retailer of these products, not carrying them makes a huge difference) . Other articles complain about Wal-Mart's architecture, low wages, and various types of discrimination. Meanwhile, insurance agencies and many other businesses work hard at building and advertising great products and great service. Yet, even when they succeed, they don't attain Wal-Mart's success. Wal-Mart simply says, "Trust us to always have the lowest price" and it works! The key is that Wal-Mart does not just sell price. They have built trust that they will always have the lowest price. They learned a painful and expensive lesson during Christmas 2004 for temporarily violating this trust, when customers found other stores offering better prices and abandoned ...

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... , making, recording, etc. The only problem is the "interruptions" and unreasonable demands by those "darn customers." In the hospital, I repeatedly observed well educated, highly skilled professionals performing procedures on body parts, rather than people. Patients, or customers, are not workbenches where you go to "practice" a skill — they're living, breathing human beings with needs and expectations. The conditions (cancer, fractures, congestive heart failure, etc.) and the body parts (hips, kidneys, brains, etc.) are not the patient. Recognize, treat, and cure the whole patient/customer. Hopefully, in the future, the patient/customer will no longer be the bench where professionals go to work, but rather the canvas where skilled artists go to lovingly apply the strokes from their "specialty" brush to complete a finished picture of health and wellness/customer satisfaction. Coordinate and monitor these artistic endeavors to assure that the finished portrait meets the needs and expectations of the patient/customer. The Louisiana Health Care Group slogan bears repeating: "It's all about the people!" Episode # 7 — Never Argue with a Customer about Their Feelings. As a customer, I know when I'm upset. You don't. How can you ever win a debate with me about my feelings? If I'm upset, let me vent. My perceptions might be wrong, but I'm right about my feelings. Once I've vented, you might be able to show me a different way to see the facts (change my perception) and ...