Posts Tagged ‘marketing material’

Effective Communication Through Your Marketing Material

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Hi, my name is Tim from TM Media and in this video what I want to talk about is the actual communication that goes into your marketing material. Now on a previous video, I talked about what I called “Visual Integrity.” And basically what that is, is basically an overall presentation of your company to a client through your marketing material.

So basically, what’s your marketing material look like? Is it professional, is it up-to-date… if you’re a high-end software company, do you look like a high-end software company through your marketing material or do you look like a local landscaper cutting grass?

So that’s what we talked about in that video. And you can view that labled, “Is Your Marketing Collateral Up To Par?”

On this video, what I want to talk about is the actual communication. So we have a marketing material, we’ve made it professional looking, we have a nice color scheme, it looks visually appealing, now what do you say in it? This is where a lot of companies just let it go. They just don’t even think about it. It’s kinda like a last minute thing they add into a project. It happens all the time. I’ll get word documentations that says to put something in the ad. A lot of companies just don’t even consider how they’re communicating with the client and how to slowly get them interested. (more…)

Is Your Marketing Collateral Up To Par?

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Hi, my name is Tim with TM Media and what I want to do today is talk about what I call “Visual Integrity.” What in my mind, what visual integrity is the basically how you’re presenting your company and how you’re coming across your potential client through your marketing material.

Ever since we were younger, our parents would make sure we’re going out the door looking appropriately for whatever occasion we’re going to. If we’re going to school, we are dressing appropriately. If we’re going to church, we would probably dress a lot better for that occasion; so, basically, that’s what we do. We make sure how you’re representing your company before walking out the door. And we see a lot of different companies that look up to par and others companies that don’t look up to par.

Here’s basically 2 examples. We have Joe-the-landscaper that cuts grass for a living and is a fairly small company. And then you have Larry-the-lawyer, which is the much higher end market, dressed in the suit, carries a brief case, has a nice established office with nice furniture in it and stuff like that. And his marketing material needs to look up to par.

Now if you’re Larry-the-lawyer and your marketing material looks similar to Joe-the-landscaper, then you may have some integrity issues. So, that’s basically what we’re trying to do is have you think about how you’re projecting (no matter how wonderful your company is), how is that coming across in your marketing material?

We have seen companies that make multiple millions of dollars and they never attempted to upgrade or establish any kind of professional marketing material, identity, logo, anything. They might have put something together when they briefly started up or some in-house intern logo so they just went with that. (more…)