Friday Five (graphic design, Facebook’s IPO, floppy disks and more)
Every Friday, we present our staff’s top picks for the best links or articles of the week AND we’ll tell you why we think they’re so great. A word of warning – this isn’t always about marketing. It’s just great stuff we’ve curated from across the web that we think is worth sharing. Enjoy! 100 Ideas That Changes Graphic Design (Jessie-Lee): http://bit.ly/LexvHj This article, from The Atlantic, promotes the book 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design. It takes a really great look at some of the concepts that have shaped graphic design into what it is today. What makes this...
Read MoreNew Promotional Product: Home Team Handz
Recently, team Quintain Marketing attended the ASI Show New York to preview some of the new products that have recently been released in the advertising specialty industry. One of our favorites was Home Team Handz, specialized gloves designed to take the sting out of clapping while also getting your claps heard. Put your logo on these and hand them out at the next company meeting or give them away to your fans at the next sporting event. Give us call at 866-788-3226 for pricing and lead times, and watch the video below to see Home Team Handz in...
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Because Quintain Marketing specializes in helping small businesses create and deploy impactful marketing strategies, we are always looking for ways to optimize our clients’ websites. Your website is the one place on the internet where you, as a company, have complete control over how your brand is portrayed. As a result, it should be the focal point of your online strategy. Most of our clients are small and lack the resources and expertise required to maintain traditional, HTML-driven websites. For this reason, we often recommend they migrate their websites to a Content Management...
Read MoreFriday Five (Creative Market, Pit Bulls, Willy Jeeps, and more!)
Every Friday, we present our staff’s top picks for the best links or articles of the week AND we’ll tell you why we think they’re so great. A word of warning – this isn’t always about marketing. It’s just great stuff we’ve curated from across the web that we think is worth sharing. Enjoy! Creative Market (Jessie-Lee): http://bit.ly/MdRLuV This was the best find I made all week! If you are a designer you are probably familiar with COLOURlovers, its a go to source for the freshest color combos. Creative Market is a side project to bring fresh design content to the masses! By...
Read MoreFriday Five (weather, organ donation, translation and more)
Every Friday, we present our staff’s top picks for the best links or articles of the week AND we’ll tell you why we think they’re so great. A word of warning – this isn’t always about marketing. It’s just great stuff we’ve curated from across the web that we think is worth sharing. Enjoy! How Weather.com Is Building a Social Media Weather Alert System (Jessie-Lee): http://on.mash.to/JZx0wr Long overdue, but nonetheless brilliant (in my opinion)! Having started with a full site redesign, Weather.com is going to begin implementing weather alerts on Facebook and Twitter. This will...
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