We hear about the importance of branding all the time, and we try to do our best to keep up and do what we believe branding is all about: design a nice logo, develop our image, and ask our friends and relatives their opinion about our choices. This is not a bad thing, but there´s…
The question of why people buy things is a beguiling one, and companies pay big bucks to try and figure out these motivations. Sure, we all have those brands we love, and which personally express something about us, but most consumers will admit that some purchases just happen. Shirts are a great example.
There’s an aspect of marketing that almost every company should develop and that is social media branding. As an Orange County marketing company, at Twelve12, we see a lot of customers looking for easy ways to do social media branding only to end up with poor results.
We’ve all been there—it’s late, you’re driving in an unfamiliar neighborhood, and you’re hungry for a burrito. As you drive down a main thoroughfare, you’re confronted with the choice between the knowns: Del Taco, Rubio’s, or whatever other chain dominates the area, and the unknowns: the various Mexican places that dot the strip malls, with…
One of the most powerful tools to spread a message is through a video. In so many ways, you can use it to show your company to your customers, to train new employees, to attract investors, or as advertising material.
The secret behind the success of a brand is a combination of factors, and even though there are some similarities among different companies, there’s always something that makes them stand out from the crowd and makes them unique. At Twelve12, we have been helping many different businesses to develop their branding in Orange County and…
As a company, getting to know the demographic details of your customers is step one in connecting with them. Find out as much as possible about the people you depend makes it possible to better speak their language, customize your products and services to their needs over time, and, well, just find them when you’re…
If you’ve read a marketing blog in the past 5 years or so, you, too, may have been gripped with fear that you aren’t targeting millennials enough. Using influencers to gain exposure for your product has become a very effective strategy, and yet it has, in a way, come to be defined narrowly as a…
We all know that marketing is rooted in psychology. We want to encourage people, whether through intellect, emotions, or both, that they should buy what we’re selling. The cutsie term for this is giving them a ‘nudge’. It’s founded on the awkward truth that just having a great product often isn’t enough to competitively sell.…
It doesn’t matter how carefully you design your marketing campaign; at the end of the day, what matters is that you get the expected results. It is true that when you have a professional online strategy, the rate of success of the outcome increases noticeably. The main reason for this is that it is very…
