Let us suppose, McDonalds’ decides to radically change its corporate logos. Now imagine travelling on the highway, you are searching for the big “M” to spot a McDonalds’ outlet but you don’t see any. Since the logo design, which you have been so used to, has been changed, you won’t be able to recognize the franchise from far away… would you?

The above assumption is meant to explain the possible impact of changing your company logos. Like every human being, an organization has an identity of its own. A corporate identity includes a name and a representative logo. The name of the company is complemented by its logo as the face of a company. Making alterations or even the slightest of modifications to the company logo can have dual effects on the corporate identity and its brand equity.

Let us have a look at the possible impacts of modifying company logos, both positive and negative.

Positive Impacts of changing your company logo:

• A change in company logo revitalizes you business appearance and gives a fresh look.
• When an organization gets stuck in a controversy, a change in company logo can help pacify matters.
• A modification in your company logo can help accommodate your growing business portfolio.
• Alterations in company logo can assist in repositioning of the brand identity in the mind of customers.

Negative Impacts of changing your company logo:

• Customers may not recognize the newly changed identity or simply may not like the new company logo.
• Too many modifications can spoil your company logo.
• Due to stationary items (business cards, letterheads, corporate brochures etc) carrying the previous logo, a redesign incurs great replacement costs.
• The customers who are bonded with the existing company logo may not readily adopt the changes.

Any modification in your company identity should be based on an extensive research of the potential repercussions of the redesign. In a nut shell, changes in your business logos should be reasonable and in alignment with your previous corporate identity.

Corporate identity, once prepared, requires promotion to reap fruitful benefits from it. Corporate logos not only depend on the creation process but also rely on the extent of advertising. One of the best tools of advertising your corporate identity is corporate brochure. Corporate brochures, most commonly known as pamphlets or leaflets, serve as informative script of your company’s products and services.
Never ignore the importance of brochures for making your business successful. These corporate leaflets are like salesmen who present your business products and services to the clients. They provide supplementary information to customers regarding your business functions.

Corporate brochure designs are usually printed on a thick gloss paper using four-color process to enhance its quality. Below are 20 spectacular examples of corporate brochures that beautifully present the products and services:

Gingerboy Brochure

Class’net Brochure by Alexandre Avram

NTU Degree Shows 09

Buck Town Brochure by  Zack Anderson

KUAT Brochure by Romeu & Julieta – Estúdio

Alpha_Txt Brochure by Viv Greywoode

Volkswagen Brochure by Josiane Marquis

Rebrand Brochure by Rebrand Advertising and Design

Elegant Winery Brochure by Jenna Ebanks

Vertex_-Climbing-store Brochure by Alex Matveev

Unicer Brochure and Product Catalogue by Hugo Vicente

plAAy Brochure By Source Creative

Brodware Kristall Brochure by  Luke Hopkins

ozlab.com Brochure

3rock Brochure by Toast Creative

Adopt-a-rainforest Brochure by Wade Keller

Leporello Spree Art Brochure by b3ns

St Patrick’s Festival Brochure by sortdesign

Pocket Product Catalogues Brochure by matieregrise

EAW Line Array Brochure

1 ) About the Blackwater Logo Designs – Old and New:

The company’s infamous bear-paw and crosshairs logo design became an icon within the private-security industry, to the extent that some Blackwater guards had it tattooed on themselves. After the September 2007 shooting, the company attempted to soften the look of their company logo and changed its name from Blackwater to Xe Services LLC. The new logo design is a stylish black "X" on a white background, with a small "e" superimposed on it. Many believe that this new logo design is a bizarre cross between the old Xerox corporate logo and the brand mark for Xena: Warrior Princess.

2 ) Why the sudden redesign?

Interestingly, the executive board of Blackwater has indirectly confessed that it had to change Blackwater’s name and corporate logo due to massive criticism it faced. Blackwater’s President Gary Jackson has said that,

The former name and company logo “Blackwater” has also been removed from its various business units.

3 ) Experts’ opinion on the new corporate logo:

We all are always insisted to have a unique company logo or simply a symbol that can help in identifying our business and its services. Have you ever wondered why it is so important to have company logos? After so many years of running a successful small business, I would like to share how I have perceived the importance of a company logo.

The effectiveness of a company logo depends on its identification and frequent reference by the customers. Customers get a brief review of the company, which helps them remember the services offered.

Company Logos and their Benefits

Every business and company enjoys specific benefits as a result of deploying company logos in their business services. These unique company logos have a number of benefits, some of which are:

Different Kinds of Company Logos

Here are few brilliant examples of professional corporate logos, which are amazingly creative and well describe the nature of a business too.

Certainly, the topic today is not new, but surely very controversial one. Being in this corporate world I would like to discuss the importance of logo design contests in a corporate world. The logo design awareness is on a rise and business owners are now very convinced about having a strong corporate identity. But this also brings in number of choices to get a logo design, leaving us confused in the end.

Crossing the basic debate about advantages and disadvantages of Spec work, I would like to highlight a new aspect. Recession has given birth to abundant small businesses, making them approach different logo design contest sites to get a new corporate identity within a limited budget.

Here I would like to ask a question to all the great names of logo design community and expect an honest answer… Is it wrong to get a logo from a contest site, in these low economy times?

Unquestionably, the success and failure of a business immensely relies on its corporate logos and a professional company logos should be our top priority. However, looking at the present economy crisis, when so many people are being laid off, not left with much choice except to start a small business to earn their bread and butter.

Big names of design community evidently oppose design crowd sourcing and ridiculously curse the spec work. Brand stack, Crowd Spring, Inc Spring, 99Designs, MycroBurst and many other such resources are crudely being blamed for supporting this trend of design contest sites. They believe that designers are paid too low on such sites and mostly their hard work is wasted.  I think before tagging the logo design contest sites as immoral and useless, they should consider the present economy breakdown. Every business owner cannot pay big prices of top designers and in such circumstances they are not left with much choice then these contest sites.

After sharing my verdict, I would like to know from you all if the present financial break down is a justifying reason to approach logo design contests and are they really beneficial?

Although, blogging has become prominent part of marketing strategies nowadays but at the same time several corporate companies are unaware of its myths and facts. Today, this post of mine will surely help you know all about corporate blogs…let’s get started.

1) Advantages of Corporate Blogging:

Firstly, let’s analyze how corporate blogging can help a company reach its organizational goals. So, here are the reasons for which corporate blogging has become a success tip:

• It helps a company have a strong bond with its customers
• A company can communicate with its own employees
• Blogging can be used as a promotional tool to reach new target markets
• Blog is a platform to have open dialogue between executives, staff, and customers
• Blogs builds a strong company image by branding your product in the market
• It helps a customer know more about company’s products and services.
• It helps you to have an update of your competitors proceedings
• Being a direct communication channel, blogs helps you improve your customer service on global basis.
• Allows the company employees to display their expertise on a particular topic.
• You stay updated about the worldwide conferences/meetings related to your industry.
• Lastly, as compare to other communication strategies, blogging is relatively much cheaper.

2) Disadvantages of Corporate Blogging:

Although I don’t think blogging can harm any company in any way but still it is important that we see consider negative and positive aspect of every topic. However, my list of disadvantages is really short, if you have any to add, please do add.

• Your competitors can easily exploit any aspect of your company, which can lead to bad publicity.
• Many workers have been fired by their bosses for putting such content on the blog which took the company in negative direction.
• Many companies have invested big money in customizing their blogs but unfortunately they did not receive expected results.
• Blogs revealing multiple tones and opinions of a company can also leave a confusing image of the organization.
• A badly worded blog or factually incorrect blogs can spell disaster for the company. 

3) Facts about Corporate Blogging:

Undoubtedly, blogs are considered to be traffic magnets and a powerful communication tool but it does not mean that it works for everyone. Yes my friends, surveys have proved that many corporate blogs have failed and only few succeeded. There are few facts you should know be aware of Corporate Blogging:

• Many companies overly rate the blogs and expect tons of traffic driving in overnight.
• It can take you months to build in long-term and authentic readership.
• Blogging is not only about talking about yourself and your organization. Give enough space to your readers and customers to share their views.
• When writing a blog post always try to come up with useful content and detailed facts for the readers otherwise you won’t be able to win trustworthy visitors.
• Blogs allow users and your competitors to publicly criticize you on your own blog. Be patient and cleverly respond to the negative comments of your readers.
• People do not always want to know about your organization and its goals. They will enjoy if you introduce them to the team members of the venture.

According to latest researches/polls 55% of corporations are blogging but I would say that don’t follow this trend only because they are fast, cheap and easy to use. I would suggest, just don’t jump for the blog world as everyone is doing it. Study your target audience, niche market and company goals, irrespective of your company size. The longer you take to recognize its importance, the longer you delay your success.

    The charm and magic of business cards is always mesmerizing. We are always up on our toes to make ourselves stand out in this tough competition. My blog is always stuffing you all with the importance of having professional company logos but I think business cards play a vital role in building strong corporate identity.On searching the internet you will get to see awesome collection of business cards but the set below will surely tempt you to be more experimental and creative with your corporate business cards.

Exchanging business cards is an old tradition of the business world but most of them are tucked into a wallet or desk drawers. Here is a collection of 30 business cards which will truly impress your clients and make them hire you every time they need the related services.

1 ) Chuck Tingley

2 ) Lettau Designs

3 ) Nathan Jones

4 ) Kenspecklegifts

5 ) Jason McGrew

6 ) Lego

7 ) Primal Screen

8 ) Sparkle Labs

9 ) Toxic Puppy

10 ) Kass

11 ) NC Publishing

13 ) Distrilo

14 ) Olokial

15 ) Isablah

16 ) Leschinski Design

17 ) Jack rabbit

18 ) S&N

19 ) Butter Label

20 ) Made by Elephant

21 ) Gehring Sales & service

22 ) Rezife

23 ) Geniealisa

24 ) Daniel Ballou

25 ) Lioninoil

26 ) Corporation Pop

27 ) Space 150

28 ) Than an Agency

29 ) SupaFly Design

30 ) SheetSeat

31 ) David Burke

32 ) KEO

33 ) Relix

34 ) Sarah Power Media

35 ) Dale Edwin Murray