There’s a lot riding on your business logo design. From making a good first impression to being strewn across all of your marketing materials and branding, having a good logo is crucial. A well-designed business logo will be simple, easily identifiable, and will effectively represent your business. But if you’ve ever attempted to make a…
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How to Rebrand Your Business in 5 Steps
Rebranding involves changing visual and text-based elements, such as your logo and tagline, that represent your brand to the public. If you institute a new mission or need to change public perception of your company, consider rebranding. To do so, examine how successful competitors are branded, then use this to inform your new brand identity….
How to Write a Marketing Plan in 7 Steps [+ Template]
Marketing plans include strategies for promoting and advertising a business as well as details on how to implement those strategies. This ensures a business reaches sales and growth goals. To create your own marketing plan, write out an executive summary, conduct market research, determine the right strategies, and create a plan for executing those strategies….
Top 18 Best Business Slogans & Taglines 2019
A slogan promotes a product by telling customers how it’s different from those of competitors. A tagline, on the other hand, represents a company’s entire identity and branding. The best slogans and taglines are memorable, benefit-focused, catchy, emotion-inducing, and tell a story. Below, we’ve highlighted the best slogans and taglines of the last 50 years….
Radio Advertising Costs & How to Negotiate Lower Rates 2019
Radio advertising costs range from $200 to $5,000 per week depending on location and the size of the listening audience. The cost of producing the commercial is $1,000 to $2,500 depending on what is included like music, voice actors, and editing. Some stations have their own advertising production teams to save costs. How Much Does…
Newspaper Ad Costs, Benefits & How To Create One 2019
Newspaper advertising is best for businesses that want to reach customers aged 35-45 on a local, regional, or national scale. The average newspaper ad cost depends on the circulation of the paper, the size, day, and ink. A full-page ad can start at $2,700 and increase to $163,000 depending on these factors. Print Newspaper Ad…
How to Market Your Business With Vehicle Wrap Designs
Business car wraps are vinyl decals that are designed, printed, and applied to vehicles to create mobile billboards. Wraps typically cost $2,500 to $5,000 or more, plus design. To use car wraps for marketing, choose vehicles to wrap, create a vehicle wrap design, and hire a company to fabricate and apply the decal. If you…
6 Best Online Business Card Providers 2019
Providers of the best business cards online make it easy for you to create and print your own business cards, either using your own design or with predesigned templates. We looked at a variety of online providers and narrowed it down to these six best options in terms of price, available designs, and turnaround time….
Local & National TV Advertising Costs & How to Advertise 2019
A TV ad is a 15 to 60-second video that’s aired during television show breaks to market a business’ products or services or to build brand awareness. Businesses pay $5 to $34 per 1,000 viewers for a local TV ad and an average of $115,000 for national 30-second ad airings. TV Advertising Costs For local…
How Much Does a Billboard Cost? Pricing & Advertising Tips
The cost of billboard advertising depends on format, circulation, demographics, and impressions. Physical billboard costs average $250 per month in rural areas, $1,500-$4,000 in small to midsize cities, and $14,000 and up in larger markets. Digital billboards can cost over $15,000, depending on the location. For businesses looking to advertise on digital billboards and not…
15 Insightful Branding Statistics
A brand consists of many expressions of the relationship between a company and its customers or clients. And yes, you can quantify its value (ask big name brands like Nike and Coca-Cola about that). We’ll do that and more with these intriguing branding statistics that will convince you to invest in your brand! 1. The…
Top 25 Hair Stylist Business Card Examples from Around the Web
FirstResearch.com’s latest profile on hair care services puts the number of hair salons in the United States at about 76,000 and growing. With this competitive landscape, it’s important for hair salon owners to make sure they create a lasting impression on their potential clients, beginning with a stunning business card design. Here are 25 examples…