Armen Akopyan
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Trimark Exhibits at LA’s Largest Mixer in Downtown Los Angeles
Jul 28th
This past Thursday, July 22nd, Trimark’s office hit the road to put up a booth at L.A.’s Largest Mixer, held at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Dubbed as one of LA’s biggest networking events for business to business relationships, more than 225 exhibitors and over 2,500 people attended the mixer.
We at Trimark made a bunch of new contacts and friends, and even took a business card collection to randomly raffle off a free portfolio website to one lucky local company!
Hosted by the LA chamber of Commerce and sponsored by local media such as ESPN Radio 710, LA Opinion and others, the “trade show” attracted tons of Los Angeles businesses representing just about every angle of commerce you could imagine.
WE got a lot of compliments on our booth and promo materials and took tons of great pics, so we thought we’d post them online for you to check out!
This won’t be the only tradeshow Trimark will be exhibiting at this year, so we’ll be sure to keep you posted in our blog as other events come closer.
We’ll also be unveiling the all-new Trimark Marketing Group website in the coming weeks, so check back with us for updates soon!
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4.8 million hours were wasted on Pac-Man while it was on Google home page
May 26th
It might not sound like a lot on first glance, but the 36 extra seconds that the average Google.com visitor spent there last Friday playing Pac-Man adds up to a massive 4.8 million of wasted hours.
According to a study by RescueTime, Pac-Man on Google–the playable version of the iconic game that the search giant replaced its home page logo with on Friday–cost the economy a total of 4,819,352 man-hours and a whopping $120,483,800 in lost productivity. As RescueTime put it, you could hire every single Google employee, including co-founders Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and CEO Eric Schmidt, and get them for six weeks for that much money.
Still, it’s hard to get too worked up over 36 extra seconds of time someone might have spent on Google. After all, how much time does the average person spend not doing work when other time-sucks come along, like presidential elections, sports championships, “Lost” finales, the death of celebrities like Michael Jackson, and so on. Clearly, that number is an average, and so it masks that fact that some people probably lost most of their day Friday to Google’s remake of the 30-year-old game.
What’s more interesting to me is how much time people lost More >
$3 Million Super Bowl Ads Becoming Overrated
Feb 10th
This year’s Super Bowl ads seemed to disappoint viewers (although that seems to happen every year). After ads being banned and soaring costs (about $3 million for a 30-second spot), we still saw the same tired commercials (wow, look, Go Daddy girl is ripping her shirt off again while Danica Patrick gawks at her for the umpteenth time) and the familiar brands Coke, Budweiser, et al. With the increasing popularity of social media and viral marketing, I am hoping major brands will start moving away from the exorbitant costs and scrutiny that comes with Super Bowl advertising and take their branding and marketing campaigns online. Not to mention they will get better results for $3 million investment.
Pepsi has already made the shift. A few months ago they announced that, for the first time in 20 somthing years, they were not going to advertise during the Super Bowl, electing instead to focus on social media marketing. I think it’s a smart move since $3 million is going to go much farther online than in a one-time 30 second ad, especially when most of us have DVRs and streaming video. With social media marketing, Pepsi can tweak its messaging to cater to different More >
5 vital logo design tips
Jan 6th
Following are 5 tips of creating professional logo.
1. Learn what a logo is and what it representsBefore you design one, you must understand what a logo is, what it represents and what it is supposed to do. A logo is not just a mark – it reflects a business’s commercial brand through the use of shape, fonts, color, and / or images.
A logo is for inspiring trust, recognition and admiration for a company or product and it is our job as designers to create an identity that will do its job.
One must first know what a logo is before continuing. Here is an article for you to read about what is a logo.
2. Know the rules and principles of logo design
Now that you know what a logo is supposed to do, and what it should represent, you now must learn what makes a great logo aka; the basic rules and principles.
- A logo must be describable
- A logo must be memorable
- A logo must be effective without color
- A logo must be scalable i.e. effective when just an inch in size
Successful Logos
Now you know what the rules are, you can distinguish the difference between a More >