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Six Ways to Know if Your Visual Brand Standards Are Working

Six Ways to Know if Your Visual Brand Standards Are Working

Graphic standards are designed to create visual cohesiveness for your brand. But their usefulness can vary widely depending on how old they are, how robust they are and how they’ve responded to changes in your world.

Here are six questions to ask to see if your graphic standards are still serving you well—or if they need an update.

The Recruiting Opportunity So Many Companies Miss

The Recruiting Opportunity So Many Companies Miss

Here's a too often overlooked recruiting strategy: showcasing the “why” behind your work. Finding and persuading the best talent is competitive, and requires more than advertising the position, providing a job description, or detailing benefits and compensation. Most people are looking for a sense of purpose and connection in their work—so that should be a central part of any recruitment communication.

Why Social Media Posts Fail: 10 Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Why Social Media Posts Fail: 10 Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Have you developed some great visual content for your social channels, but failed to get the results you hoped for?

This can happen when a business focuses on the visual content but fails to attend to some other equally important aspects of their social media strategy.

How To Get More Than You Paid For From Your Web Vendor

How To Get More Than You Paid For From Your Web Vendor

As a client, you may not realize how much you can do to get the most for your investment. The place to start is with an understanding of how web vendors estimate their costs and manage the project. Your web vendor typically allocates a set number of hours to create your new website. Usually, they will include some time in their estimate to allow for good ideas to emerge in the creative process that can't be anticipated. That's good. 

An Inside Look at a Website Redesign

An Inside Look at a Website Redesign

Have you ever been completely taken in by a website, but couldn’t really say why?

That’s because many of the visual cues are recognized subconsciously, rather than consciously. These include data-driven cues, color, call to action placement, type choice and format, and images.

A good website creator will pay scrupulous attention to these and other tried-and-true techniques when they develop a new website.

How to Make the Most of Your Big Announcement

How to Make the Most of Your Big Announcement

Shady Grove Medical Center has recently introduced the construction of a new tower building, with a focus on providing patient-centric care and innovation. The advertising campaign by CMBell showcases the hospital's cutting-edge technologies and medical advancements through captivating visuals and compelling narratives, representing the hospital's transformative journey. 

10+ Social Media Post Ideas That Can Increase Engagement [Infographic]

10+ Social Media Post Ideas That Can Increase Engagement [Infographic]

DEVELOPING ENGAGING CONTENT is one of the biggest challenges of digital communication. With so much content vying for our attention, there are tried and true ways to capture and hold a viewer's interest.

Visuals are an essential element for any post, and because the brain is attuned to motion, using video almost always increases engagement.

A Look Inside an Award-Winning Community Awareness Campaign

A Look Inside an Award-Winning Community Awareness Campaign

What goes in to making a campaign that gets noticed—and creates awareness?

Lots of decisions! Here are some of the reasons behind the campaign we created with the Walla Walla County Department of Community Health, as part of their work to prevent suicide, provide access to mental health resources, de-stigmatize mental health issues, create awareness about the dangers of fentanyl, and prevent opioid use.