Promoting Your Small Business Blog
When Leadership Gilroy wanted to announce their transformation to The Gilroy Leadership & Education Foundation, we stepped up and created a new website for them. This new site not only featured their great new logo, but also allows for viewers to easily navigate through the many programs they have to offer. As part of this more »
ABD Promotions proudly welcomes our newest member of the screen partner family. We have just finished installing two advertising locations at the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce. What a great opportunity to advertise to all of the local businesses that deal with the Chamber every day. One of the screens is located in the reception area more »
As a small business owner, it is important to grow your social media network but most especially through Linkedin. The power of this social media group is different for a number of reasons: 1) You can build your connections to clients, partners, professionals and peers. 2) It is a professional platform rather than a purely more »
This article began with a little bet we made our children. We bet them they could not get 10,000 YouTube views on an original video they created. We even tried sweetening the deal with a prize if they succeed. They made a couple of attempts but were easily discouraged because creating a compelling viral video more »
A small business owner can sometimes feel like s/he is in a boat in the big ocean all by him/herself. They say when you have time to reflect, two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything. Interesting how perspective can sometimes change how we see the more »
Sometimes it amazes me how you can be inspired by a simple song. In this instance, a song by Linkin Park called “Remember the Name” inspired me to write about why branding for your business can be so difficult, yet important. The lyrics go “This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent concentrated more »
Amazing how we work with people everyday and when we meet them, they share what their specialty is, what their passion is…. We love our work because we get to learn so much about what others do for a living. What’s missing, however, is the ability to translate their skills and expertise into writing. Posting more »
When Nor Cal Landscape in Gilroy saw our video advertisement at First Street Coffee, they called us for a quote. After our first meeting we began the building process for their new website. This new site is optimized for search engine placement and also looks great. We incorporated over 100 pictures from their previous construction more »
Why do people do business with some people and not with others? Is it competency, clear expectations, timeliness, friendship or perhaps plain and simple – because they trust you? Perhaps all of the above? Well, the challenge for many small business owners is showing folks the reason for why they need to work with you. more »
This brochure was created in house for our own Website Design department. We incorporated a screen grab from our own website, superimposed it onto a laptop and phone screen to show of our website and mobile design capabilities. The web icon background pattern and the vertical curve shadowing also help add dimension to the advertisement.
The Morgan Hill Sports Complex was looking for a way for multiple restaurants to share one banner. We designed this high quality 6 Foot x 8 Foot banner to show off the sponsors logos and locations. Each logo was carefully reworked to allow for such a large print size. Background gradients were also added to more »
A local tour company needed a way to show off their great new Mercedes Minibus, but could not get a good image of it without shelling out big bucks for a photographer and photo shoot. Our Photoshop experts came in and took a stock photo of the minibus, isolated the bus from its background and more »
When an established company in Oregon decided to create a new branch of their business, they cam to us for branding advice. We created this logo for them utilizing symbols that represent their keywords.
Once again our friends at Hello Gorgeous wanted us to put together a design to help promote them. This two sided full color party invitation was created to let the world know where the party’s at!
When our favorite Luxury Spa in Colorado wanted to re-brand their business, we created a simple relaxing design. They liked the design so much, shortly after, we were asked to build an entire eCommerce site around it.