You’ve figured out your web host, layout design, and your domain name, but you still have a few ‘getting started’ questions. What do you do before you dive into your blog? You might be wondering: Do I build up a library of posts so that my...read more
Know Thy Enemy: The Benefits of Competitive Analysis
Know Thy Enemy: The Benefits of Competitive Analysis
There are few industries, if any, where competition does not exist. Even in fields as specialized and demanding as aircraft manufacturing, you can count on at least a handful of companies furiously competing for business. If anything, competition is what...read more
Online Lead Generation: 4 Ways You’re Doing It Wrong
Online Lead Generation: 4 Ways You’re Doing It Wrong
Inbound marketing is here to stay, and with it comes a change in the way marketers need to approach online lead generation. Consumers no longer want to be sold; they want to be engaged and educated. Long gone are the days of paid email lists, begging...read more
Your Business-Level Strategy Needs to Include Your Marketing Team—Here’s Why
Your Business-Level Strategy Needs to Include Your Marketing Team—Here’s Why
We have entered a new period of business dominated by ‘attention scarcity’. Buyers have limited attention spans as a result of an abundance of information at their fingertips. Whereas companies used to be able to use a single medium--say, magazines...read more
SEO for Small Businesses Is Still A Basic Requirement
SEO for Small Businesses Is Still A Basic Requirement
Today, the Internet is one of the main communication and marketing channels. Now that large international brands are taking advantage of this new media, how can your small business expect to compete? It may seem daunting to try to rank on search...read more
Going Green in Food Packaging
Everyone has been talking about going green lately, whether it's for your home, your car, cleaning products, or anything else... and it looks like it's not just a passing fad. The trend actually began at the beginning of the industrial revolution but...read more
Website Design: 10 More Awesome Content Tips
The journey to perfect website design will never end. We recently posted 10 content marketing tips that we learned during a trip to New York for an SEO conference. Below are 10 more tips offered by Idea Launch to enhance your content marketing and get...read more
QR Codes: What They Are and How They Benefit Marketing Efforts
If you were in Austin, TX during the 2011 SXSW conference, you were more than likely bombarded with the hundreds of QR codes all over town, from magazine ads to bumper stickers, to guitar cases, to cocktail napkins. It caused lots of people to start talking...read more
Website Design: 10 Awesome Content Marketing Tips
As part of our journey to defining perfect website design, Envision recently attended a conference on search engine optimization and learned a lot of nifty stuff. One of the presenters, Idea launch, offered some in depth tips for enhancing your content...read more
The Keys to Website Redesign: CMS, SEO, SEM
What do all these acronyms mean to website redesign? Face it, we're living in a fully digital world, and with that world a new language has emerged. Truthfully, all of these terms have been floating around for more than a decade but they have only recently...read more
5 Key Elements to Great Package Design
"An effective packaging looks attractive, impresses with its creativity and is just nice to have on the shelf." - Smashing magazine So what elements make product packaging design great? The Experience Like a child opening a gift on Christmas morning,...read more
The Most Essential Website Redesign Tool: Content Strategy
If you're like us and our clients, you've been hearing a lot about content strategy lately. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find much information about it so we thought we'd shine a little light on the subject. What is a Content Strategy? According...read more
How to Blog for Business Success
Blogging for business has been steadily climbing the ranks in content marketing. It provides an effective way to support organizational goals by nurturing and converting leads. How effective is business blogging you might ask? B2B marketers that publish...read more
Updating a Corporate Logo. When does it make sense?
We've heard it a thousand times: "We can't update our logo because we've been in business for (name your period of time) and everyone recognizes it already. We might alienate our current clients..." We always respond with a series of questions...read more
The Gap logo – How Not to Approach Rebranding
Recently, the popular clothing manufacturer, The Gap decided to rebrand itself by changing the company logo that has been recognizable for 20+ years. The new logo which was recently unveiled to the world can be seen below alongside the original logo which...read more