Branding Trends
Tingalls Graphic Design is super-excited to be the first agency in Madison to offer to latest in branding trends – The Rock.
Posted in Advertising, Branding, Tips, Tradeshow Marketing
Important Google Search Update: Rumor Control
Typically, Google releases their updates as a sort of sneak attack – it’s very rare that they give any warning to webmasters and site owners. This is because historically Google updates are designed to improve Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).
Posted in Google, Search Engine Optimization, Website Design
Brand Re-Boot
Last week we talked about what a brand is and how your corporate culture and mission statement protect and promote that brand. In short, your brand is your promise to the world, your pitch to strangers and your company’s values. Sometimes that’s not enough to save a brand. How do you know if your brand is failing? Here are a few tips:
Posted in Advertising, Branding
What is a brand?
What is a brand? Marketing experts have struggled to wring every nuance from the word, for nearly a hundred years. Should your brand be re-booted?
Posted in Advertising, Branding, Logo Design, Marketing, Start-ups
February Spoons League – The results are in!
The mighty upset! Epic highs and perilous lows at the Tingalls Graphic Design office last Friday as the February Spoons Championship battle was decided.
Posted in About Tingalls
Content that Counts: The Golden Nugget
Content that counts comes in many forms. This isn’t your first day on the Internet – odds are you have a Facebook account, Twitter feed or even more. Have you noticed any patterns? Everything happens at light speed, in short tiny bursts of concentrated information. This is counter intuitive – the assumption is that audiences want detailed and elaborate explanations of services and products, events and everything else.
Posted in Copywriting & Blogging, Marketing, Tips, Website Design
A Tingling Sensation: Project Success
It’s not your Spidey-Sense tingling, you’re feeling Project Success. It’s what we at Tingalls Graphic Design call “The Awesome Index.” At Tingalls we deal with awesome all day, so we’re not willy-nilly with the term Project Success. It’s a direct result of our creative process.
Posted in About Tingalls, Branding, Logo Design, Print & Package Design, Website Design
Social Media Marketing Part 1 – Who Tube?
Everyone knows about Google – but did you know that YouTube is the second most used search engine? Read some more and learn how to take advantage of this fun and exciting tool.
Posted in Advertising, Social Media Marketing, Tips
The Creative Hurricane – Our Logo Design Process
When you think brainstorming, you probably think of a stuffy room, some paper, a handful of people and maybe some Mountain Dew. That’s cool. Maybe it’s not your specialty. But here at Tingalls, creative is our bread and butter.
Posted in About Tingalls, Branding, Logo Design, Tips
The January Spoons Showdown!
The competition is really heating up at Tingalls Graphic Design, the national headquarters of the Tingalls Spoons League. At this point in the season, the championship is really still up in the air. There is a clear rivalry between Project Manager JoAnna, and Tingalls founder, Tara. Both are expert players with little mercy for the less experienced.
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6 Things You Can Do to Turbocharge Your Website in 2015
Thinking it would be great to get more customers from your website in 2015, or that you haven’t been making the most of Internet marketing opportunities? You certainly aren’t alone – this is the time […]
Posted in Search Engine Optimization, Website Design
Creative Corner: How to Draw Custom Letters in Illustrator
Our talented designers here at Tingalls Graphic Design are always making something creative. Whether it’s on their Mac, a sketchpad or the back of a napkin, their ability to create beautiful art is astounding. One […]
Posted in Branding, Graphic Design, Logo Design
How Graphic Designers Can Up their Credibility Factor – Part 2
In the first installment of this series, we discussed six ways a graphic designer can improve their credibility factor. In part two, we’re serving up five more tips on the subject. And although we’re talking […]
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How Graphic Designers Can Up their Credibility Factor — Part 1
Have you ever met someone who was obviously an expert at something? Probably. But have you ever met an expert that you would absolutely never work with because you had no respect for them, or […]
Posted in Graphic Design, Tips
Website Design Best Practices: The Homepage Experience
Anyone with a driver’s license can get from point A to point B in a car. But to excel as a professional in NASCAR or Formula One racing, you’ve go to have some serious skills […]
Posted in Website Design
Triumphing with Twitter
To many, Twitter is quite the strange bird. Trying to figure out how to successfully use it can feel like attempting to get all the sides of your Rubik’s Cube (remember those?) to be the […]
Posted in Social Media Marketing, Tips