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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 ...

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... the designers, but a collaborative effort benefits everyone involved. Corporate identification is art and science. Developing a corporate look is both art and science. Research, planning, and design are all significant components of the completed package - for good reason. Ownership of a visually powerful corporate identification has tremendous value to a firm. There are more than 690,000 trademarks now registered, many for unusual names or symbols that are clearly worth protecting. Some companies go a step further: Owens-Corning registered the color of its pink insulation, as did Coca-Cola with the shape of its Coca-Cola Classic bottle, and NBC applied for registration of the sound of its chimes. Design has value. In addition to objectivity, an outside marketing services firm brings its understanding and knowledge of the subtleties of design. Graphic artists, illustrators, designers, and art directors can conceptually interpret a company's goals while attending to the small details, which can be quite powerful. They scrutinize the design for balance, unity, cohesiveness, composition, and reproduction value. They understand the implications of specific colors and select colors accordingly, also giving careful consideration to the warm and dark tones they use. Give the planning stages their necessary attention, maintain communication with all involved parties, define your company's goals, and select the best leaders to direct your corporate identification implementation program. With everything in place, you'll avoid identity crisis and present your company in the best light. Richard Barry is vice president of Graham Communications, a marketing services and sales consulting firm founded in 1976. He can be reached at 40 Oval Road, ...

... shop from unlimited sources in a global economy. The result: a market based on price-driven costing, in which there's a price consumers will pay for every product or service and the manufacturer/distributor must offer if it wants to stay in business. In this environment, the consumer doesn't care if the price is below the manufacturers'/distributors' cost. Yesterday's market was a process (adding up costs) that led to a result (price) . Tomorrow's world will be a result (the price the market will pay) that will require innovations of process. To meet the market's price (which will usually be below traditional costs) manufacturers and distributors will have to change the way they do business. Competition is good for consumers because it drives marketplace excellence. If a high wire artist performs over a net, you'll see a good performance. Remove the net and you'll see a great performance. By removing the net, ' competition weeds out the inferior and average performers. If you want to compete, don't whine — deliver excellence! The Postal Service has two options: innovate to deliver excellence or hire an auditing firm to eliminate inefficiency. There's no way they can stay in business while charging $3.50 for a service that's available from the same source for 34¢ — and misses its own deadlines one out of three times. Michael G. Manes can be reached at Square One Consulting,  625 Weeks Street, New Iberia, LA 70560,  cell 337-577-3885, e-mail [email protected] , or visit www.squareoneconsulting.com . Login or ...

... unlimited options for where and how we buy. We've seen dictators who controlled wealth, power, and the machines of war turned out by peaceful street protestors in the Arab world. Might no longer makes right. Who is right? For a possible answer, read this quote from best-selling author Daniel Pink in A Whole New Mind: The past few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind – computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. However, the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future belongs to a far different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers –will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys. If you accept this paradigm shift in our world, you'll agree that we need leadership and that new leaders must comfort those afflicted with all this change – but more importantly, must afflict those comfortably, contently and even happily wrong. Here's my best guess on tomorrow: You won't be able to get there from here. It's impossible to bring the folks who form your organization (where they are and as they are), the products you offer, the prices you charge, and the processes you use in this delivery to where they need to be. Tomorrow's leaders must venture into the future. They must determine what they'll need ...

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