Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Successful Marketing, Its All About Image, Message & Exposure, A Houston Graphic Design Firm Can Help

By Brian Waraksa

When you are looking to build your brand you need to be prepared to make some radical changes at times to get the results that you are looking for, a Houston graphic design firm can help. The main key to successful marketing of you or your company is, brand building, the connection of your name, product, or service with the leadership of the industry that you are in and the customer base that you are looking to woo. The primary concerns that one should have when they are looking to build their brands is image, message, and exposure, These businesses should be utilizing the services of a powerful Houston graphic design firm.

In the old days such concerns could easily have been handled by placing a contract with a public relations firm and letting them do all the "dirty work" of putting you in the best light, but in today's Internet driven world traditional PR firms are starting to see that they are at a disadvantage, but a Houston graphic design firm can help you with all that and more. Today businesses that are interested in marketing themselves in the most effective ways possible are looking to organization such as Internet marketing companies, website design companies and graphic design firms, such as Houston graphic design firm, RAXA design. These organizations in turn have started making it a point to have in house public relations and brand building specialists on staff. "Where ten years ago, you would have separate firms handling your image and marketing concerns, now you can get everything you need in one place," says Brian Waraksa, founder and Marketing Consultant for Raxa Design, a Houston graphic design firm, "regular public relations firms have been too slow to "get it", the industry has changed, firms like mine are now the best equipped to handle a clients branding. We can handle everything from the design of their logo, to the look of their signs, vehicle graphics, websites, brochures, and sales materials in our Houston graphic design firm. They can get everything that they need in one place, the product is better for them and the process is more efficient since you have one team handling it all."

Having a top quality brand is something that can make or break a businesses. A good example of this is the recent controversies surrounding of one of Americas most beloved athletes, Michael Phelps. Phelps had such a great branding image going into, and through the Olympics that when he ran into controversy after wards he was able to recover very well. The Houston graphics design firm, RAXA, believes, The public is forgiving to a person or brand that has a good image, just ask Ben Roethlisberger, his controversy lasted just over a week in the minds of many Americans, due primarily to the strength of his carefully constructed and very tightly maintained brand image. However A good brand image is not just handy for recovery. When you have a good brand image the public is more willing to accept what you say as truth and the products and services you offer as being worth their consideration and money. Those businesses that have a good brand image can, for the most part right their own check with the public, a company such as Houston graphic design firm, RAXA Design can help.

Let's for a few moment consider the case of a man on a subway platform. This man for whatever reason is going to give away one million dollars, it doesn't matter why he is doing it but the money will be handed to the first person that listens to the simple instructions of how to retrieve it. This is a very important message that the public would be interested in, the only problem is that the guys image is lacking to the public view, see right now he is wearing only his underwear, is carrying a small cage with a squirrel in it and is talking about the money being a gift to the people of the city form the residents of the planet Omicron Persei 8, as a thanks for their help with the recent penguin crises on Pluto. Odds are at the end of the day the guy is still gonna have the million dollars since the public is going to look at him with a less than reputable image, this is an image even a Houston graphic design firm cant help to improve.

Internet marketing companies such as Waraksa's Houston graphic design firm, Raxa Design, will tell companies that behind image the most important thing is exposure and message. The truth is that these two items are intrinsically linked, If you have great exposure and a weak message, you aren't going to go anywhere, and when it comes to optimizing exposure and message a company such as RAXA Design, a Houston graphic design firm. Think about our guy on the subway, he is standing their amongst everyone else, able to be seen by hundreds of people, now he is dressed nicely and he is telling them that a million dollars is located under the bench of the station right by the front of the train, but he is saying the information very softly and in another language so even though he is exposed to the public he is not getting the message across in a way that they will care.

Now lets look at the opposite situation, The same guy is yelling the information about the million dollars under the bench at the top of his lungs in English, the only problem is now he is doing it in the subway men's-room at three in the morning. There is no one around to hear the message, he has chosen a bad method of exposure to get his strong message across and therefore has once again failed to reach his goal of giving away the money. This is a good example of how a business must have good exposure for their message or it is a mute point and how a organization such as Houston graphic design firm RAXA Design can help. The Internet is a great way to get maximum exposure with little effort and only minor investment. As any Internet marketing company will tell you, the hyper-connected nature of American society make the Internet possibly the most effective marketing tool to ever be invented. The power of the web to be able to present all forms of media at the same time means that your image, and message and easily be combined with great exposure opportunities. The ability for Internet marketing companies, such as a Houston graphic design firm to take advantage of this and give your business the best brand that it can have is what makes the investment of working with one such a great idea.

To get a good idea of how image can be vital to the other two components of this equation, and how a company such as the aforementioned RAXA Design, a Houston graphic design firm lets one more time look at our subway patron, the good Samaritan who is desperately trying to give away his million dollars, now he is wearing a three piece suit carrying a briefcase, standing calmly on the platform, speaking English, at a slightly above normal tone, using good grammar and the time is about 3:30pm. Odds are someone is going home with a million dollars. If your image is good, your message is strong and of interest to the public and your exposure is maximized, you just might be walking away form your marketing campaign with a million dollars of your own, using a company such as Houston graphic design firm, RAXA Design can help ensure your success. Its worth the time and effort to see what an Internet marketing company can do for you and your business a good way to get started would be to contact Brian at Houston graphic design firm RAXA Design and have a chat.

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