Category Archives: Business Tips
How does a graphic design project works – part 1
We have been asked a lot lately on “How does it work?” when it comes to working with a graphic design studio. So we decided this is the right time for us to do blog posts about KAI Design’s approach when it comes to a design project. Similar to a “consultation” process, there are [...]
QR Code
Are you a business owner or marketing consultant that is exploring the idea of using QR Code as part of your promotional campaign? Aside from having the regular QR Code embedded in your promo materials, it is also fun and eye-catching way to incorporate your branding image onto the QR codes to deliver an unique [...]
5 Cost Effective Marketing Tips for Small Business
Here are 5 quick and useful marketing tips for small business owners! 1. Try Unusual Marketing Methods 2. Joint Promotions with Other Small Businesses 3. Diversify the Ads 4. Offer a Premium Version of your products/services 5. Don’t Advertise Like a Big Business *Full article [here] On top of those five tips, here are KAI [...]
Social Media Revolution 2011
Last month we came across this video during Ray’s presentation on the topic of Social Media at MEEX2 event. We strongly encourage you to watch this whole video. Very impressive! Based on the speed of how Social Media is evolving, there might be another video coming soon….”Social Media Revolution 2011 Fall/Winter edition?” Video by Erik [...]
4 Powerful tools to use when using Facebook
Facebook is one of the strongest Social Media Platforms. Today it has reached more than 500 000 000 users, who spend from 10 minutes to 3 hours on it. This illustrates a huge potential for businesses to gain direct contact and access with its target customers. 1- Facebook Ads This is a powerful way to [...]
6 Social Media Benefits
Social Media is a great way to put a human face on a company, reach complete communities, promote services and products and enhance a brand. Worldwide big corporations are using Social Media tools to do it (Particularly Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn) but somehow in Montreal and Quebec regions have not fully boarded the Social [...]
6 Efficiency tips for Entrepreneurs & Marketing Consultants.
If you are a Business owner or a Marketing specialist you may have experience some operational challenges in the past, and you may wonder what you can do to avoid those issues. Here are some tips to help you increase your efficiency: Listen to your customers and respond more rapidly than your competitors. Be [...]
Crowdsourcing
Came across a heart-felt article about “Crowdsourcing” from Logobird. This is so true on so many levels. A must-read for businesses people who are looking to get some design work done. Crowdsourcing Won’t Help You In the last few years crowdsourcing has become the single greatest enemy to design, more so when it comes to [...]
Tomorrow Awards
The Tomorrow Awards Conference is the first international award show dedicated to discovering, showcasing and awarding advertising creativity that pushes new technological boundaries. We were proud to be part of this educational and inspiring event on Thursday, March 31st at Usine C Montreal. Here are some highlight quotations and lessons from the conference speakers that [...]
Social Media Breakfast Montreal # 7
On march 30th we had the opportunity to learn more about the art of blogging with Brendan Sera-Shriar, also known as @digibomb in the twitter world at the 7th Social Medial Breakfast event. Brendan talked about the importance of building a community within your blog. And one of the key ingredients is to encourage interaction [...]
Social Media Breakfast — More than just networking!
This is Social Media Breakfast Montreal’s first event of 2011 and KAI Design’s team is more then happy to attend it. The SMBMTL events concentrate on two key activities: bring people together, as well as exploring recent tools and trend happening within the social media world. This month’s event (January 19th @ 9am) will feature [...]
WebCom 2010 — Being human after all.
KAI Design’s team attended the Webcom 2010 conference on Wednesday November 17. Many of the presentations talk about web trends, technologies, strategies and how we can use those tools to the full potential for businesses. One of the speakers we found interesting is Marsha Collier – author of twenty-five “for Dummies” books and Radio Host [...]
Ad Agencies 2.0
“The Future of Advertising” by Danielle Sacks has been creating waves through the business world. This article offers the perfect insight in to the state of today’s advertising industry, and just how they are preparing for the next step. As our media landscape continues to progress, and society demands more out of a product and/or [...]
Wake-up Call To All Canadian Designers
“Designers, Tear Down These Walls “ by Mark Busse is an opinion piece that really got us thinking — like most designers. Mr. Busse addressed the lack of leadership, involvement and communication amongst Canadian design communities and organizations. With the conversation now open, it is time where designers must band together from students to industry [...]
HTML5 and CSS3
The World Wide Web is an evolving tool, it is again starting to take a great tweak, which improves the way graphics; text and multimedia are presented. It’s everywhere, it’s coming, and you want to know everything you can before it’s old news. We are talking about HTML5 and CSS3! HTML5 and CSS3 (Cascading [...]
iPad Optimization
Ever since the release of the iPad by Apple, web and graphic designers are faced with a new set of challenges: Creating websites that are mobile device compatible. We found a nice article about what to expect when designing an iPad compatible websites: http://www.inspiredm.com/2010/02/09/ipad-design/ Keys points any web designer should be aware of regarding iPad: [...]
Greener Solutions
KAI Design attended an interesting day of workshops and conferences presented by Canopèe’s called Practical tools to become green and contribute for an eco-friendly paper market; that took place at the UQAM on February 12th. At this conference we learned about many ways to present our clients with ecological solutions for their printing needs. We [...]
Andy Warhol
Recently came across a quote by Andy Warhol. Love it~