Friday, May 28, 2010

Do you know how important part your suppliers play in your business’s success?

Do you know what part suppliers play, or can play in your business success? Well, suppliers are the ones who help you to build your company’s credibility. How do they do it, there are so many reasons for that. Let’s talk about the top 3;

1. On time delivery: Delivery issues can make your customers vanish like they were never there. This unfortunate scenario can occur when your customers aren’t getting their ordered products on time. Here, the one who is responsible for this is your supplier, so you have to make sure that the supplier you deal with is dependable and give you on-time delivery.

2. Quality of goods: It is apparent that you will be able to make people trust you only if your products are good. Building good relation with the suppliers helps small business owners to get good quality material from the suppliers because the supplier won’t trick you if you have a good relation with him and when he is happy doing business with you.

3. Competitiveness: it’s the suppliers who can tell you exactly what your competitors doing with their products as they are in the market and hold links with other suppliers so they can tell you what’s going on in the market. Also, they can give you tips on how you can make your product different and better from the rest of your competitors with new business ideas.

Many people take the suppliers for granted and think that because they write the order, they're in the dominant position and can exploit it with unfair demands, rather you should work nicely towards building a good business relation with him so you can work productively on long term basis.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Corporate Logos- Wastage of Money or Sure Shot Return on Investment!

If all humans look alike how would you be able to recognize each other? Just imagine the mess it would create. With all having the same face, there will be no uniqueness and individuality of their own. Same is the case with the business world; a company without a corporate logo is like a human with no face at all. It doesn’t matter what field of business you are in, you cannot stand out from your competitor without a logo.

Most of the businessmen still believe that business logo designing is wastage of money. May be corporate logos can create a big effect on your business expenses but you cannot ignore the fact that it also leaves uncountable long-term benefits. To put it simply, Logo design surely pays off!

Corporate Logos Construct Your Business Future! HOW?

Experts are always exerting small business owners to construct a brand for their startup business; they usually don’t give significant reasons for this. This is what I want to deliver through this post. Over efficient business owners think that they can easily carry their business efficiently without a visual identity, ignoring the fact that it is nearly impossible in such a fiercely competitive business world. It can possibly save you a little amount of money at the beginning leading you to short- term business success. While your potential customers and investor need to be assured that you are not an easy fish and have solid aims to remain in this business with future mind set. And trust me you cannot do serious business without a business logo.

Corporate logos will make your service and products striking and memorable in the market, as everybody knows that people tend to remember what they look instead of what they read. Nevertheless, people who believe they can construct their corporate image through personal PR are totally wrong. Creating a logo that is more persistent in all over business promotion materials such as; stationary design, websites and business cards helps a lot in building a sturdy visual identity for your business.

Thereby, it’s not the time to take risks….

It is graveling that a businessmen invest his lots of money in stock exchanges with no return on investment guarantee while over-leaping the importance of logo design, which is a type of investment guaranteeing inestimable sure shot return in your business.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

TOP 5 ACTION VIDEO GAME LOGOS

Video gaming is a very healthy indoor activity that’s a part of our daily lives and is really helpful in eliminating our daily stress; especially the online multi player option which has enabled us to play with different players all over the world.

Video game logos hold a very strong value when it comes to making an impact on the gaming audiences. Gaming logos help video games to get recognized in a more beneficial manner which is why game developing companies work hard on their logos.

Here are the top 5 action video game logos of all times:

Resident Evil:

Resident Evil is a video game series & media franchise consisting of films, comic books, novelizations, and a variety of collectables, including strategy guides, action figures and publications. Developed by Capcom Inc. The logos of resident evil are as great as the game itself, depicting the elements of living dead and supernatural terror. Most of the resident evil logos have red color with distorted backgrounds and freaky type fonts that give the glimpse of resident evil game series.

FEAR:

F.E.A.R (First Encounter Assault Recon) is a horror-themed first-person shooter game developed by Monolith Productions and brought out by Vivendi. F.E.A.R was released in October 17, 2005, and it has been an impressive game. The logo of FEAR has the true element of terror. Those letters of F.E.A.R which are a little bit atremble always sent a fiery vibe to my spine when I used to play this game.

GTA (Grand Theft Auto):

GTA (Grand Theft Auto) is a video game series launched by Rockstar Games and is a very popular game among gamers of all ages. GTA logos have a nice and elegant look which represents the high level of the game while having the picture of its gameplay in the font’s backgrounds in many GTA series logos.


Mortal Combat:


Mortal Kombat (commonly abbreviated MK) is a fighting games series created by Ed Boon and John Tobias is without any doubt one of the most successful games in the history of arcade gaming. The Logos of this series have one element in common; “THE DRAGON”. Sometimes it’s in the shades of red and orange and sometimes it has a metallic effect.

Assassin’s Creed:

Assassin's Creed is a historical fantasy video game that was released worldwide by Ubisoft in November 2007. The game revolves around a machine named the "Animus", which allows the viewing of the protagonist's genetic memories of his ancestors. Assassin’s creed series logos have a historical element that separates it from other games logos. On assassin’s creed logos, the word ASSASIN is in Black and CREED is in red which is a good combination, along with the background which has blue color shades; all these colors match each other in a good accordance.

These were the top 5 action game logos of all times, if you liked this article drop your comments below to encourage my effort, have a nice day.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Top 10 global logos

Article title: Top 10 global logos

Publishing date:
April 19th, 2010

One of the main reasons why businesses grow as international giants is their business logos. The way a logo can explain about the business to the masses, nothing else can. If a logo design is made in the right manner, its impact is long lasting. You can take the examples of some globally recognized logos such as Yahoo, KFC, Vodafone etc. These logos were custom logos which were made by their designers in such a way that they stood out from rest of the logos and made their mark in the international market. The following article “Top 10 global logos” illuminates about the top 10 globally recognized logos and their features, describing their designs, type fonts and especially the ideas behind them which makes this article informative for those business owners who want to acquire business logos for their companies as well as those who want to know more about global logos just to gain some knowledge. You may read this article by clicking here.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Review: Top 10 Biggest Logo Design Mistakes

Article title: top 10 biggest logo design mistakes

Publishing date:
April 3rd, 2010

Making mistake is not a crime, but facing its consequences is something that makes you regret on your mistake. Same goes to the logo designing. Many blunders are done even by the biggest companies of the world. Sometimes it’s from the logo designers, and sometimes it’s because of the ideology team that works off the scene. Everyone is aware of the damage that can be done to a company because of a faulty logo design. This is the reason why companies spend thousands of dollars on their logos, just like; London 2012 Summer Olympics Logo, Cover the Earth Logo, Check Point Software Technologies Logo, MobileMe Logo, Buffalo Sabres Logo, Bing Logo and so on. The following article “Top 10 Biggest Logo Design Mistakes” enlightens the biggest mistakes of logo designing world in detail which is what makes this article a must read. Click here to read this article.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

WWE WRESTLEMANIA LOGOS: the complete Anthology (Part 1)

I have been one of the craziest fans of WWE since I was 7 or 8. Wrestling was the first sport that I really liked watching. The entire idea of wrestling was great for me. Like other wrestling fans, I used to be on the edge of my seat when wrestlers like Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels and The undertaker were to apply their finishing maneuvers to their opponents. It is kind of funny thing to confess that I wanted to become a pro wrestler instead of a doctor, engineer or a pilot (like usually kids want to become).

Being a logo designer, hundreds of logos come to my sight on daily basis but only few catch the attention. WWE WrestleMania logo series is one of them. It has been 26 years since WrestleMania 1 came out and the show is still running wild and is one of the most successful sports entertainment events of all times. This year (2010) the most recent WrestleMania that held was WrestleMania 26. It was an instant classic like always, and the logo of WrestleMania was as great as the WrestleMania itself. So I decided to write a complete anthology of WM (WrestleMania) logos to take all of you wrestling fans back to your most memorable wrestling moments. This series will be divided into many parts so we can talk about each WrestleMania logo meticulously. So, here we go.

THE BACKDROP:

WrestleMania is a pro wrestling pay-per-view event, produced once a year in late March or early April by World wrestling entertainment (WWE). It is considered the greatest event of WWE, as it is the most thriving and longest-running professional wrestling event in the world. WrestleMania is also known as;

"The Granddaddy of Them All"
"The Grandest Stage of Them All" and,
"The Showcase of the Immortals”

First WrestleMania came out in 1985 which was held in Madison Square Garden in New York City (the 10th and the 20th editions were also held there), and, as of 2010, 26 editions have been held uninterruptedly since then, with WrestleMania 27 to be held in 2011.

Now, the WrestleMania logos:

WrestleMania I: March 31, 1985 – Held in New York City at Madison Square Garden: In this very first WrestleMania logo, the designer came up with the color shades of blue, Golden and orange to show the beginning of a new event called the WrestleMania. The extended lines which come out from “W” and “M” cover the WrestleMania letters while “R” extends and connects to “S” in a very good manner. As a finisher, the addition of WWF trademark on top of the WM logo.

WrestleMania II: April 7, 1986 - Held in Los Angeles at Los Angeles Sports Arena: this one comes out to be the replica of WM 1 logo just with the addition of number “2” in the background in the red glow effect to depict that it’s the logo of WM 2. However the colors of the type fonts are dull than the first one.

WrestleMania III: March 29, 1987 - Held in Pontiac, Michigan at the Pontiac Silverdome: Another replica of the first and second logos of WM. However, this time there was a major change in the logo which wasn’t noticed by many people. It was the number (3). The appended number with the WM logo which represents the series number of WM was changed this time from usual numerals to Roman numerals. This Roman number format is being used till now.

Unfortunately, WM 4, 5 and 6 logos came out as just the replica of the previous ones without any modifications which really bothered me as every WM event is an instant classic and therefore every WM logo should be unique too. The actual change came up with the 9th logo of WM (I will discuss the 9th logo and the rest of the WM logos in the coming parts of this article.)

WrestleMania IV: March 27, 1988 - Held in Atlantic City at Trump Plaza


WrestleMania V: April 2, 1989 - Held again in Atlantic City at Trump Plaza


WrestleMania VI: April 1, 1990 - Held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the SkyDome

WrestleMania VII: March 24, 1991 - Held in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Sports Arena: This logo was a bit changed as the designer tilted the same WM logo which was being used by WWE. Nevertheless, a change is a change.



WrestleMania VIII: April 5, 1992 - Held in Indianapolis at the Hoosier Dome: A replica of WM 7 logo.

Till the 8th logo, most of the logos were lookalikes, but as the 9th logo of WM came, the entire WM logo trend got changed. You will discover those changes in the coming article. So, stay tuned and keep me prompted with your precious comments.
To be continued…

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Top 10 Children Logo

Article title: Top 10 Children Logo

Publishing date:
March 26th, 2010

In this part of the time, there are so many products available for children by different companies, which is why product selection for children is not too difficult for the kids or their parents. Children love colors, animations, cartoons and animals. Successful marketers use these things to make their products likable by children. Organizations which deal in such children’s products make certain that their business logo design matches the standards of kids psyche to communicate with them in an effectively way.

One of the most famous kids logos of today’s time are; Tom and Jerry Logo, Hot Wheels Logo, UNICEF Logo, Dig Magazine Logo, etc. In the article; “Top 10 children logo” you will get to know about the top 10 kids logos of all times in details, and the idea on how you can design your business logo in an effective way that your logo can portray your business message to the masses in the best way while attracting the kids. Here is the link for this informative article.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

“High Quality” Custom Logo Design: A Necessity You Can’t Over Look

“High Quality” Custom Logo Design: A necessity you can’t over look

A custom logo design is something that is created specifically, uniquely and creatively for a business. The competition between logo design services is furious. There is a deluge of logo design service providers listed all over from local phonebooks to online search engines. However, the competition does one good thing; it cuts the costs of the logo design services down. Although, there is a side effect to this advantage that is; Lower prices can result into inferior services.

Those logo design services that provide low-priced logo designs often use templates, that’s why they are frequently blamed of using sets of templates for diverse logos. When a client orders a business logo, these “low-cost” logo designers create a logo design based on a template with a little, or sometimes no modifications at all. This sort of practice destroys the main purpose of a business logo.

A companies logo is the most important part of a brand identity. With efficient marketing and advertisement, a companies logo becomes a business’s visual representation in the minds of the existing or potential clients.

The marketing strategy for a business should be like this that you can make your product noticeable, the planning should have something that leaves the clear picture of your brand to the clients rather then a déjà vu impression. A business logo design anchored on a template will give the impression of the same “déjà vu impression” I am talking about. It will prompt the viewers of similar products or services they have seen before. This scenario may lead the business to un-favorable publicity.

So, how the small business owners make sure that the get a logo as good as they deserve? There are two ways for that; whether he goes for the cheap logo design services, or to the affordable logo design services. The cheaper one might save a few bucks but there is a big risk of adverse effects. At the other hand, an affordable logo design service would cost a few bucks extra, but would offer a really good custom logo design that will benefit your company in the most beneficial way.

Therefore, a custom logo design is what you need to acquire for your precious business.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Review: USE IT OR LOSE IT

Whenever you think about any particular product or service, the first thing that comes to your mind is its logo, right! But do you know why this happens? Because in business marketing, there is no need for anyone to see your business name or details and that’s where your logo plays its part. A logo is the image of your entire business that’s why a well designed logo holds the power to send your branding message to the clients.

Where a paid logo can give your business a sky-high success, the free logo designs can ruin your business image for lifetime. The article “USE IT OR LOSE IT” tells you the very differences of free and paid logos that make huge deviations when it comes to a professional logo design.

Without a doubt, this article provides you free logo design help which you have been looking for a long time; therefore it’s must for you to read this article by clicking here.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Why A Business Logos Design? I Think I Am Quite O.K Without One

“A business logo design! For what?” this is how my childhood buddy responded when I asked him how is he going to get his business logo designed as he was starting a new business. I couldn’t help myself staring at him for a couple of seconds, but didn’t say anything because it could become a massive debate right there and I was getting late for some house hold shopping. Being a friend, I can never see my buddy moving towards a wild ocean without a life jacket; therefore I decided to talk to him later on.

Online business world is not less than a wild ocean, in which many dive but very few rise back and a logo plays the part of a life jacket to float and survive against the massive waves of competitors. Being a logo and business consultant I have seen businesses and individuals go up and down by the different affects of their logo designs, which is why I emphasize each and every business individual to attain a logo to make his business image healthier.

As a business logo design is considered one of the foremost assets of a brand there should be a couple of things that a business should plan before starting the logo creation process;

Color combinations

Symbols/Objects selection

And, Font’s selection

All of these three are the primary elements of a business logo design and without working wisely on these features one cannot attain a good logo design. It is necessary to make selection for these elements according to your business theme so you can convey the accurate message of your company through the business logo design to your clients. It is important to understand the business logo worth and the fact that skipping the logo acquiring part can cause you big troubles in the future.

Now, I got to wait for my pal to read this piece of writing and get back to me after realizing the worth of a business logo so I can gladly help him.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Stationery Design – Need for a Small Business

Stationery design is a key for small business to promote their products and services whether they’re business cards, slips or ordinary papers. Small business should consider the role of the stationery to promote their business and hire professionals to let their stationery design stand out successful in the market.

Small businesses today don’t give attention to invest money in order to have an exclusive stationery design made by the professionals rather they just used templates which come up with MS word and MS publisher today or either goes to online printers which provide them readymade solutions. Harsh isn’t it?


Small businesses won’t be able to maximize their business efforts unless they ask professionals stationery designers to help them make stationery design one of its own kinds to promote their business. Even though; if you’re an honest businessman with a good reputation, a cheap stationery design wouldn’t bring a good impact about your business towards a prospect.

It’s useless to spend money to make you look decent while going to a business meeting if your stationery design isn’t able to portray the image of your business. Therefore, it’s wiser to spend your money on business promoting tools like your stationery design to make your business stand out for some meaning among your prospects.


If you have just started your stationery business; then you should take help from stationery designing experts to insert some visual effects in your stationery design to make your prospect interact with it and remember your name for long. Your stationery design should converse well with the prospect/customer to let them pick what you want to deliver them.

Conclusion: In a nut shell it’s desirable for small businesses to take assistance from stationery designing experts to make their businesses look big in the dynamic environment.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Why is Custom Logo Design important to a business?


Everyone needs to be recognized and no one likes to perish or look small. In order to occupy a distinct place, a creative effort is required. These efforts are first aid to small/medium sized businesses. A logo design serves as helping hand to these businesses. More unique is the business logo-design, more the users attract towards products and services of these small businesses.

The importance of creating the corporate image can never be ignored as each and every business is recognized through its logo. For example: When people hear the name Nike, they recognize it easily as it has created its impressive image among its target audience today.

Question that usually arises in people’s mind is that: Why should one move towards a creative custom logo design? The answer to this question lies in the following:

Distinguishes Brand’s Identity

Custom Logo-Design is a resource to small business enterprises in acquiring a unique place in today’s dynamic environment. It builds an impressive image among the target audience of these enterprises. These businesses occupy an isolated place through their unique business logo-design with assistance from custom-logo-design experts and people can easily recognized their products or services.

Act as a Parameter to Internet Branding

Custom Logo-Design is the creative image which reflects and cling the target audience minds of small businesses/home-based businesses for a long-term. The creation of the right logo-design will surely keep small scale businesses to prosper effortlessly. With the success of a business logo, the customer would gradually become the client of custom-logo design business consultant and admire consultant’s internet branding strategy.

Solution to Low Budget Enterprises

To those people who cannot afford high prices on advertisement; the custom logo-design serves as a problem solver for them. Various packages are offered by the custom-logo-design consultants at a cheaper price to home-based/small businesses in order to overcome their budgeting problem.

Messenger of Small/Medium Size Businesses

Message of the small/medium scale businesses is carried forward to their target group by custom-logo design. Theses logos represent the ideas to help people understand for whom these enterprises work. The custom logo-design expresses the nature of small scale businesses products/services to create efficient awareness among their customers and convey their message in style.

Interchangeability in Logos-Design

A very important aspect in custom-logo design is interchangeability as the competition is tough and change is inevitable, therefore various small scale businesses keep on changing their logos with the passage of time for e.g. Mobilink has now change their layer color from red to violet as it is more appealing today.

Competitive Environment Fighter

Today, the environment is very competitive so an artistic custom-logo design provides a definite value to the small/medium size businesses in the face of competitors. The custom-logo design protects the distinct place of these enterprises in the market.

Quality Enhancement is Vital for Creativity

Quality of the custom logo-design should never be ignored as it makes small businesses to be recognized by their target audience. It should neither be overlooked nor be unprofessional because creativity in custom-design logos shows small/medium scale business to look efficient and creative.

A Silent Representative

People identify small businesses through their logo. Custom Logo-design represents these small scale organizations with the help of an attractive image which the people can easily remember instead of plain text words. Logos are representative of small businesses in a unique style with silence.

Visual Impact Creator

Think classic, 3-D or animated custom logo-design express an everlasting impact on the minds of small-scale business like websites as Google, Reliance or Tata Motors. Custom-logo design influences the users to switch towards them. If more easily the users can interpret the purpose of these enterprises with their self-defined custom logo design, more the users are attached towards these enterprises.

Conclusion: In a nutshell, it would not be wrong to say that any business whether it is small, medium or broad each of these requires a unique identity which they can achieve with the help of a custom logo-design, so its importance cannot be ignored.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

A Matter of Longevity in Logo Design

It is by far the most important quality of a corporate logo design that it should be able to portray the real message over an extended period of time. It should have ability to never fadeout with time and cultural changes. It may feel good to have a logo which is trendy, but how would you feel if you have to change it after a few years.

No business owner would like to have a logo which would be perceived as either outdated or old. Logos which are designed with a focus on current trends get outdated and old fashioned in a short period of time. Hence, one should take care of the longevity in a logo design while designing a one for his business.

The Logo of ABC: Since 1962


Have a look at a logo of the news channel ABC. The brand logo was developed by Paul Rand and used by the company since 1962 till 2006. In these 44 years, the company didn’t feel like to change because of its longevity. It was designed with the promise of durability, functionality, usefulness, rightness and beauty.

Now ABC has been using the variation of the same logo since 2007.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Do You Know Why Companies Use Logo?


A logo design can work as a life blood for a business and its brand. It creates a long lasting impression on a customer and expresses your business aims and goals. In addition, it provides a point of recognition for all your visitors and customers.

Your logo is meant to create a lasting impression on your prospects, customers, suppliers. They all need to remember your logo in order to remember you and your business.

A perfectly designed logo brands your business and strengthens relationship with your customers.

A good custom logo design is a way to express your business aims and motives to prospects and clients. It tells them that you provide good quality, good value, and reliability. In fact, whatever you want it to say about your business.

A unique logo design is an instrument to give you visibility and recognition. It will make you to stand out from the crowd. Obviously, you will want from your client to recognize the information you send them, they know that it will be informative.

You can use your logo design on business cards, stationery, sales and promotional material, website, emails, blogs, packaging and so on to portray a consists image to the audience.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Powerful Characteristics of a Winning Website Design


In today’s scenario, nearly all of the businesses around the world have their own websites. No matter a business is online or brick and mortar, having a website is as important as having a business itself. But among lots and lots of websites, the issue of visibility online has also becomes a problem. Many companies try to coupe up with this issue, but due to some technical and logical mistakes, they fail to visible themselves through their websites. Therefore, it’s very necessary to understand that what features a business websites should have to gain visibility and popularity over the internet.

A website should be appealing and memorable to the visitor. Matter of visibility is directly associated with the factor of memorability. A website design should be designed in a manner that it should not only be appealing to the visitor’s eyes but enough memorable to the visitor’s mind.

Should differentiate you from competitor. Differentiation of a product or service from competitors is one very important factor in order to survive and thrive. Same case is with the website design. In order to gain uniqueness along with maximum visibility, a website should be designed distinctively.

Should be user-friendly in design and usability. The most important factor is the user friendliness of a website in term of usability and design features. User will not stay and purchase anything if he can’t find the website easy to understand and use.

Should be able to sell your product/service to potential customer. A website should encourage visitor to purchase through its content. A well written and emotion injecting content plays a vital role in making the mind of customer to buy from you only.

Should be SEO friendly. You can’t forget to equip your website with SEO friendly features. Title, Meta keywords and description, URL and so on should be placed properly to make your website SEO friendly. Proper SEO of a website will lead to higher rankings in search engine eventually.