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Marketing Messages Must Resonate

Marketing Messages Must Resonate

Media buying and strategic placement of your online advertising videos, banner ads and web messages are important for continuing the growth of your company. Your branding message should be consistent and tie in to all mediums, including keyword management. When consumers see your ads or search for information, your message should be clear, informative and found in the right place at the right time.

INTERACTIVE MEDIA

Starwood’s 20th Year announcement, website animated video & introduction to the “we do it outdoors” branding campaign.
Ncutt designed and developed Starwood’s 20th year promotional campaign to include
branding, collateral and promotional tie-ins. Well-known artists were featured in the animation.

Creative Value: advertising consistency in media buys and SEO to written messages

What Approach Works Best?

What Approach Works Best?

Everyone loves a chance to win something free! In online advertising, prizes, giveaways and competitions are great ways to drive people to take note of your products. It is crucial to be honest and deal with your customers fairly to avoid a serious offense. You must keep your promise and abide by the terms of your offer.

ONLINE ADVERTISING

Ncutt designed Delta Dental’s most popular and effective internet ad campaign during their 45th year anniversary. Delta Dental offered 45 grants to individuals with the best plan to promote health initiatives for children. The banner ads linked interested patrons to the site which led them through the submission process. 45 contestants were granted the funds for their plans. The amount of entries and re-tweets were much greater than the client expected from their online advertising campaign.

creative value: Extending good will to others good efforts promotes a good name for your brand

You Own Your Website

You Own Your Website
Website Design & SEO

There are benefits in having your internal staff manage your site; however, an outside expert can bring marketing guidance and oversee that your branding standards are being met. As your Creative Partner, Ncutt will ensure your website design quality and message consistency. We can team with your staff to assist or manage the site from design to programming, search engine optimization and tracking analysis — from the foundation up, every block set in place plays key roles in the success of your investment.

A website portrays a company’s level of professionalism.

creative value: When technical experts team well with an artist, the results show.

WEBSITE DESIGN

SiteWorks, Bridgestone and InPlant’s websites reveal the quality and the full range of their services in one glance.

Further into SiteWorks’ site, you’ll find a portfolio of their work. The bio page introduces the leaders of the company along with their contact information – this page is designed to print onto one sheet for convenience.

Ncutt designed the Bridgestone Truck Tire site in coordination with their internal IT department.

InPlant’s site is highly optimized to gain a higher traffic share in an “organic” way. Ncutt continues tracking traffic to guide future creative direction. The site is also integrated with Google AdWords for optimum return on InPlant’s Google investment. Under Ncutt’s management and direction, the InPlant site has increased impressions over 650% and and site traffic over 550%.

Website Design

Wayfinding Through Art

Wayfinding Through Art

Traffic can be led with more than signage alone. Artwork is used as a way-finding tool and should assist in the movement of people through interior and exterior spaces.
Art images provide an immediate recognition to those under stress who may not have time to read a sign. Images can provide help to those who may not be able to read due to vision impairments or literacy barriers.

ADA Accessibility Guidelines call for the removal of barriers to those with special needs.

SELLING PRESENTATION

Lin Swensson, an art consultant, needed a presentation materials to convey her artistic experience and knowledge of the arts to potential clients. Ncutt created both a creative and professional presentation to speak to her corporate clientele. Ncutt assists Lin’s with her business proposals and collateral used on projects – all elements created have one voice and convey a consistent message.

creative value: Wayfinding communicates direction.

Maintaining Brand Standards

Maintaining Brand Standards

Most corporations require all marketing materials comply with their identity standards. Establish standards and clarify usage boundaries through formatted guidelines so your company can maintain a consistency and therefore strong brand identity.

WEBSITE DESIGN

Bridgestone, a global 500 company based in Japan has very strict design branding standards. Ncutt designed Bridgestone truck tire’s intricate website and collaborated with their in-house marketing and IT departments to oversee the quality of production.

creative value: Consistency in brand image matters — it's your personality. Don't split it.

Creating Ties That Bind

Creating Ties That Bind

Products are most often sold on price alone. If a company offers support service to backup their product, the company has a better chance to develop a long-term relationship with the customer. Clearly stating your services and creating online connections to your products can make it convenient for customers to receive help at any time of the day.

INTERACTIVE MEDIA

Bridgestone Tire Solutions is a tire management program. Bridgestone Commercial Division needed a way for their 175 reps and 2,500 dealers to become an integral part of their fleet customers’ business. Ncutt designed a program to position Bridgestone reps and dealers from being more than simple tire peddlers, and to become a fleet’s service partner. Ncutt designed, engineered & directed Bridgestone’s online application and the collateral it generates. Each fleet customer meets with their tire dealer and Bridgestone sales rep to define the relationship roles and establish agreements on best practices which, in turn, creates and sustains long-term customer loyalty. After the trio of leaders discuss and agree on the fleet’s procedures, a custom tire policy is created for the management team and shop cards for the maintenance staff.

creative value: Teaming with creatives cultivates breakthroughs ideas!

Custom Design Elements

Custom Design Elements

Custom looking typography is readily available for quick purchase – photography as well, but how “original” is that? Even if you do purchase a typeface to do-it-yourself, it’s not so easy to compile digital letterforms with a flawless appearance. The usage of multiple fonts can be an even larger clustered-collision without a designer’s expert touch.

COLLATERAL

Karen Moderow’s “Back Roads Home” book cover & website design. Ncutt was hired to assure her public impression aligned with the professionalism of her writing.

creative value: Dare to be different — if others talk, they're fans!

A Site Establishes Relationship

A Site Establishes Relationship

Is your site simple, easy to follow, and does it show the benefits of your product and service to meet your customers’ needs? Your site is more than a sales tool. 64% of consumers made a purchase due to a positive online experience. Your customer should be one click away from finding the products or services to fit their needs. Your site establishes a relationship. Executives cite more than 2:1 (70%) preference
for viewing work-related information online (Forbes).

WEBSITE

Firestone Commercial Truck Tires website design & creative management. Ncutt designed the site with the target in mind: independent owner-operators and fleets. Fleet management tools and product information were arranged to be easily found. Ncutt worked closely with the IT programmers while creating the new format and visuals. The product data was arranged to allow Firestone employees to maintain spec updates on a back end database, to promote information in real-time, which translated into formatted web designs to appear pleasant for the publics’ eye.

creative value: Design websites with practical data management tools