Thursday 18 April 2013

When getting new signage, do you consider the whole building and its environment?

How often when renewing or getting new signage for your business do you consider the whole building and its environment?   At BlueCrystal Creative we often have people coming to us, seeking new or upgraded signage for their business without even considering the building or street it's going to be seen in!

Before you start your signage review, take a photo of the outside of your building, stand and truly look what the oncoming traffic can really see.   Do plants, or other signs predominantly fill the environment, can you make out the shape of the building from the street?  Take a moment to try and view the building actually as a first time client does, OK now consider what colours in your logo pallet could be used to contrast you business against the background, in some cases by choosing one of your logo's stronger colours and repainting the entire building in just that colour, a much smaller sign can be used to even greater effect, because the whole building now acts as a logo.  You  often see this used to great effect by major chain operations, you can drive along a busy street and see the whole building painted in their corporate colour and recognise it instantly

A second advantage of using the corporate colour, is that it's  the equivalent of adding white space around the logo which in a visually confusing street can add a great deal of clarity

If you would like to find out about how to use you're building for best effect call us at BlueCrystal Creative today and ask us about the science of Business signs

BlueCrystal Creative ~
Quality signs for your small business



BlueCrystal Creative media & design  
Brisbane Australia,  Ph 0418 752 103
 
www.bluecrystalcreative.com
Affordable and creative advertising and marketing solutions.


 

Sunday 14 April 2013

The Friends of my customers are my customers

The Friends of my customers are my customers


When Ford (USA) launched its
Explorer SUV video via Facebook last year,
it was more effective than a Super Bowl ad,
guess the cost of 30sec Super Bowl time.

QUICK STATS Fords Explorer facebook page got 232,556 likes & 2,786 on share's (people talking about it)  In plain english that means is nearly a quarter of a million people acknowledged liking the product
shared with there friends and 2,786 went even further by activity promoting the product.

Lets compare that
  • Mainstream media, in a city of 2~2.5 million, where just under 10% of the population is interested in the product (232,556 people) and watched the TV advertisement, and being traditional broadcast if you are trying to reach other city's you double, triple your cost (or more) Also once your purchased block of air time is gone, it's gone
  • Social Media = All of the above with out the cost, Oh did I mention that's this is world wide and 24/7 and will be available for years   
- If you produced a funny, informative or captivating video then
- placed it on your companies facebook page
- then of your 20 "friends" "Liked" it and put it on their Facebook page
- that alone has increased your website link back right there
- then those 20 peoples video posts were seen by 220 their friends
- now that one video explains your product has the possibility of being seen by
- 8000 people looking at it that way maybe videos not that expensive after all

 QUICK STATS - The average number of friends a person has on Facebook 229

Video on your website can increase page retention time by 300%




BlueCrystal Creative media & design  
Brisbane Australia,  Ph 0418 752 103
www.b
luecrystalcreative.com
Affordable and creative advertising and marketing solutions.


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