Showing posts with label Starbucks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starbucks. Show all posts

Friday, April 8, 2011

Your Marketing Should Be the Perfect Blend

We see a lot of marketing disasters at M Communications, which we will happily fix. One thing I have been seeing quite a bit lately is the lack of cohesive brand. Basically, all of your marketing needs to have the same look and feel. Your marketing all needs to match and be the perfect blend. You can have items that are great on it's own ... but if your blog, website and business card look completely different you may end up like you are running three different companies. This is kind of like drinking really good coffee. Starbucks Cinnamon and Starbucks Vanilla are great on their own but when you mix them together (which I did) the result is blech. My point? Do not blend things that are clearly not meant to go together.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Why You Should Tell People What You Need

Dealing with tech issues is never fun (see lack of blogging) and although I have made a lot of new friends at the local Starbucks, who have my Zen green tea order memorized, I am missing the days of rolling out of my bed in my pajamas (when I do not have meetings for M Communications of course) and starting work. Anyway, after several days of zero Internet being down the field tech is the only one who seems to know what he is doing, figured out my phone service is connected to someone else’s. This other person happened to order a service that cancelled mine. Now still in the middle of IT problem land, this very nice technician gave me his log on info so I could do some very much needed catch up Sunday night? My point? Never be afraid to ask for what you want business-wise or explain if you are having a problem. People surprisingly able to stand up and help out when you least expect it.