One of the best things about website marketing is the fact that you can update specials or promotions fairly quickly.

Check out our latest live web promotional banners. They reside on the site of WestgateAuto.com.

I remember my first boss telling me this as we played darts in his office, cranked up the music and discussed business. At Coles Marketing, we try to live this philosophy as much as possible. It breeds creativity, teamwork and provides much needed stress relief.

Sure we get down to business everyday, producing the best possible results and creative outputs for our clients. Sure we laugh as we develop work, as smaller teams, for each of our clients. But each month, as a whole team, we assemble to create some fun at work.

So today, we all sat down in our conference room at lunch for a little fun on Friday — or Fun Friday as we call it — to play a game called The Worst-Cast Scenario Survival Game. Yes, it is ironic to think we could have fun playing a game about worst case scenarios.  We did, however, have some good laughs and learned some things about survival along the way. So if you are hiking in the middle of the mountains with a Coles staff member, and a mountain lion attacks, be confident that our staff knows exactly what to do.

Here I go again with Google. I was serious when I said in my previous post — “Google will take over the world.” Google’s new initiative “GoMo” (launched in late 2011) in causing quite the buzz in the marketing world. A couple of years ago, the thought of businesses creating mobile sites was considered extreme — that is if you had it in the budget, you might go ahead and develop a site. Fast forward to now… With Apple attracting more and more customers and businesses developing apps almost daily, is Google trying to combat lost ad dollars? It will be interesting to see what transpires in the next couple of months/years. But for now, the importance of mobile sites is no doubt important to businesses. Take a look at the charts below from Google. We’d love to hear your thoughts on mobile sites. Or you if you need help developing a mobile site, one of our trusty creative folks are willing and able to assist.

 

 

 

 

We recently developed a series of banners for our clients, Eastgate and Westgate Chrysler. Check out the work below (click on each still to view the animated gifs). We’d love to hear your feedback.

I have often stated that Google will soon take over the world — if it hasn’t already. With over 400 million searches per day and the status of  a verb in modern day English.. “just Goggle it.“  The world’s number one search engine isn’t just search, though. The introduction of Google +, Google Maps, Googele Chrome, Google Apps added to their product base. Oh wait, there’s more. We came across the article  entitled 10 Google tools you (probably) never knew existed. I have used 2.  How many have you used? We’d love to know.

 

 

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Jacqui MacKenzie, a writer for Straight North. authored this article which appeared in PR Daily and 12Most.com. Be sure to read the comments for 40 more unforgivable writing mistakes!

Hats off to the creative team at Coles Marketing Communications for the launch of  www.Sourwine.com  Check out this unique interactive website which tours the Sourwine offices with flash animation in a 3-dimensional environment. Be sure to explore the website with your mouse to discover the many surprises it holds! The Coles creative team responsible for concepting and designing the website includes Brian Coles, Tim Coulon, Kevin Moore and Vance Vaden. Check back often for more enhancements and surprises on Sourwine.com.

From the steadyGROWpro enewsletter, a production of Coles Marketing Communications and steadyGROWpro

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What is circumlocution and how can you avoid it? According to PR Daily’s Laura Hale Brockway, circumlocution is so prevalent in today’s corporate writing that we may not even notice it.

In case you’re unfamiliar, circumlocution is the use of many words when one will do. For example, writing “at this point in time” when “now” will work.

Click here for 20 phrases you can replace with one word, courtesy of PR Daily publisher Mark Ragan.