A Powerful Online Resource
BWP has developed an online brand for client, Faithology, that contributes to the knowledge of, and engagement in, religions of the world. Purely unbiased and well-respected, Faithology.com continues to build an incredible resource for those who desire knowledge and dialogue about global faiths. We are honored to be the Agency of Record for Faithology. BWP continues to refine the Faithology brand and is currently working on an updated UI.
BWP Communications is pleased to announce the website launch and rebranding of Critical Intelligence (www.critical-intelligence.com).
Critical Intelligence is cyber security company specializing in identifying and analyzing ICS and SCADA systems. Since its inception, Critical Intelligence has grown in leaps and bounds and has quickly become a reputable company that needed a new look and feel that would allow them to compete in the global market.
BWP is the current agency of record for CI. We provide brand strategy, advertising, marketing and website development.
Logo Design ::
The original logo for Critical Intelligence was in need of a more contemporary look that incorporated the concept of global security while tying in the “CI” to represent the company.
Web Site Redesign ::
Critical-Intelligence.com needed to revamp their website to fit the new brand and to make it more user friendly while delivering a strong message about who they are and what they do. The result is a state-of-the-art web site that is interactive, progressive, and emulates their new brand and philosophy.
Consider a fun explainer video for your product, brand or service. We create compelling stories that drive engagement. Click Here to see a video we developed for our client, The Utah Association of Counties. Do you know what an Assessor does? How about a county Auditor? Watch this video and learn more about your local county government officials and how they do what they do.
Animated Explainer videos can be delivered through a variety of channels including Facebook, YouTube, the company website and affiliate websites. For the Utah Association of Counties BWP sent this video to all of Utah’s elementary and middle schools 4th and 7th grades. The purpose of the video was to help teachers with a fun tool for civic’s class. A comprehensive curriculum was provided to accompany the video making it easy for teachers to give a lesson on how local county government works.
I recently read an article on the evolution of branding. The entire paradigm of “Branding” is evolving into being much more of a customer-centric rather than business-centric process. As an Advertising and Marketing Communications Agency that believes qualitative research to be critical for brand development, the idea that brands are now being co-developed by customer and business is fascinating and spot-on. Customers are becoming integrally involved in the brand development experience as co-innovators, ensuring a more successful product and authentic brand experience down the road. As a result, companies moving forward will be competing primarily on the customer experiences they deliver. It will be interesting to see how well companies adapt to rethinking they way they do business in order to improve their approach to one of Customer Experience (CX). More to come!
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Not everyone loves the new Bloomberg Business web design. On Twitter, pundits have pilloried it, saying it looks like “Instagram filters on acid,” and, more simply, “I don’t like it.” Marc Andreessen knocked it, and Venturebeat says it “pulls you in as much as it spits in your eye.”
Josh Topolsky, editor of Bloomberg Digital and the man who spearheaded this new look and strategy, is undeterred. He has a bigger vision for what the future of news design can be. “If you look at most news sites you see a basic formatting, that’s really based on traditional newspaper design,” he says. Or, readers get their news from feeds like Twitter and Facebook, where it’s “presented in rapid fire in headline after headline.”
Since leaving The Verge this past July to join Bloomberg, Topolsky and design agency Code and Theory have been working on a kaleidoscopic, modular web design for the news organization that corrals all of Bloomberg’s media properties—Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, and Bloomberg Graphics—under one roof, and relies neither on a gridded layout nor a feed. “What drives me insane in modern web design is grids,” Topolsky says. “What’s important is a page that moves.”
A news site should move, for example, when a breaking story about an international crisis comes through and that story needs a prominent treatment. It should also move and update itself when a reader is coming back to check in on the news in the afternoon, after already reading through headlines in the morning. Different stories deserve different weight and attention, so it helps if the storytelling template at hand doesn’t hold them captive to one format. Now, as news flows in, editors can “very quickly reshuffle what we’re doing on the page, because every module is moveable,” Topolsky says. Instead of rigid grids, the site is “built from these building blocks so we can snap them together like Lego.” The news becomes intent driven, rather than layout driven.
In this way, the new Bloomberg site actually feels more like its print magazine counterpart than a typical web site. In fact, much of the criticism is a reaction to Topolsky drawing on the magazine’s sometimes kooky design DNA, which already draws mixed reviews. The text overlay happening with the coverlines is a cue taken from magazine covers and page layouts, but also, each subpage also has all kinds of visual freedom where it didn’t before. What this more literally means is that the homepage could show one big photo with one big headline, indicating that story’s importance at that time. If instead, that story is equal in newsworthiness to two other stories, the homepage will then tout three, smaller, leading stories. Or at any given time, one of the section pages (World, Technology, Design, whatever) could have one splashy landing visual, or it could have a web of photos and videos against a color gradient backdrop. To be sure, this exists on other news sites, but not with the kind of flexibility or variety the new Bloomberg gives its editors.
“The site is pretty weird in a lot of ways,” Topolsky admits. But, importantly, it’s also an effort at doing something new at a time when social media tends to route readers right to stories, causing homepage visits to drops. “The homepage may be dead, or maybe suffering now, but there hasn’t been experimentation.”
This past Sunday we witnessed the annual mecca of Super Bowl advertising that has become a phenomenon since Apple’s infamous 1984 ad. A trend throughout were ads meant to tug at our heartstrings. From a marketing standpoint, the most disappointing ad was from Nissan; after a father is absent from his son’s childhood he reunites with him to rebuild their relationship. Nissan’s attempt to connect product and emotion with an absentee auto-racing father is one of the poorest campaigns we can remember in recent years. Visit our website to see a few of our campaigns.
Time put together a list of the Super Bowl ads. Take a look and let us know your thoughts.
http://time.com/3692081/super-bowl-commercials-2015-review-death/
Business to business marketing and advertising is evolving. I’m sure you all have noticed how advertising and marketing campaigns both on the B2B and B2C front are shifting focus from data to emotion. While data can inform us about our target audience, the way we market to that audience is relying less on things such as cost and attributes and more on gut. We’ve always known that consumers engage primarily on instinct or emotion. Corporate brands are finding it increasingly critical to market to their business customers through sentiment rather than facts and figures. As we are continually bombarded with images and marketing messages we become numb. That is why campaigns that leverage emotion are becoming so vital — they make decisions makers feel something!
No question, videos were huge in the advertising arena in 2014, but in 2015 we will see them integrated across the board into mobile devices. Marketing and ad firms must pay close attention to creating online advertisements from mobile/pad inside out. These video ads must be so quick and blended that our user experience appears seamless. Challenging and critical to brands and agencies who connect with their consumers consistently online. Look for the changes at a local mobile phone near you!
Those creative agencies that continue to have the mind set of “sell, sell, sell” as their dominant digital marketing strategy are becoming more and more dismissed and overlooked by consumers and prospects. Ad agencies and digital marketers have to actually care and dedicate their time to things are more difficult to track…such as customer service, a consistent brand experience and meaningful content that benefits the end user. And this must happen across all points of engagement with a focus on customer experience.
BWP and the RDA revealed Salt Lake City’s newest transit oriented community, Station Center. Mayor Ralph Becker joined with community members developers, and press at the historic Rio Grande Depot to celebrate the first steps in revitalizing the area.
BWP worked closely with the RDA to provide brand development, marketing and advertising to launch a new image for the area, attract developers, and support the community. Full services for this project included:
There are a few factors that tend to hold major importance for your digital marketing efforts, and one that speaks to web and page design is user experience, abbreviated UX. The way users navigate and otherwise experience your site and its various pages often plays a huge role in how they feel about your brand and whether they become a customer, and there are several important concepts to be thinking about here.
At BWP Communications, web design is one of several top digital marketing services we offer to clients around Salt Lake City – and user experience is a huge part of this field. Here\’s a primer on why UX is so vital in web design and internet marketing in general, plus some of the concepts to be thinking about while applying it.
There are several reasons why UX is a top factor in digital marketing and web design. First, when users experience an enjoyable and intuitive navigation process, they’re more likely to stay on your site longer – meaning there’s a much better chance of them becoming customers or interacting with your brand in some other way.
Second, good UX contributes to the overall perception of your brand by showing users that you care about their experience and are offering high-quality solutions. Third, good UX can help with search engine optimization (SEO) since it makes it easier for Google’s web crawlers to find your site and rank it accordingly in the SERPs.
When striving for quality UX, there are several areas to be considering – which we’ll look at in our subsequent sections.
For the vast majority of website visitors, the simpler and clearer your web design, the better. If it’s too complex for them to understand or if they don’t know where to go, it’s likely that they won\’t remain on your site for long.
That\’s why many UX designers focus on keeping things streamlined and easy-to-follow when crafting their designs – and that’s something to strive for in your own web design efforts as well. This includes things such as keeping menus short, avoiding long forms, and making sure visitors can find what they need in as few clicks or taps as possible.
User experience is not the same across all industries, or even all websites within the same industry. It\’s important to know your audience and what they’re expecting from their visit to your site.
For instance, a website for local businesses needs to have different UX than one for an e-commerce store, as local business owners will be looking for more direct contact information while customers of an e-commerce store will be looking for an easy checkout process. Knowing your target audience and what they\’re expecting can help you come up with the best UX design.
As you’re designing your website, you should also be using visuals to help guide users through it. Images, videos, and other visual aids can draw a user’s attention to the parts of the page that are the most important – including calls-to-action like buttons or links.
This is especially useful for mobile devices since people will often not want to read too much text on their phones, and visuals can help users get to the information they need quickly.
No matter which page a visitor lands on, they should be able to find the information they need quickly and easily. That’s why it’s important for your entire site to have good accessibility – meaning that users can access each page from any other page with as few clicks or taps as possible.
This also helps keep people engaged and makes it easier for them to find what they’re looking for, and it can also help with SEO since web crawlers will be able to easily index the pages.
Once your website is up and running, you should regularly analyze user data to see how people are interacting with it. This includes tracking things such as page views, click-through rates, time spent on each page, and more.
By looking at this data, you can see what’s working – and what isn\’t – so that you can make adjustments as needed to improve the overall user experience.
Overall, UX plays a major role in digital marketing and web design efforts. By keeping these important concepts in mind, you can create a website that engages users and provides them with the best experience possible. Good UX will help increase conversions as well as establish your brand in the minds of potential customers.
At BWP Communications, we understand the importance of user experience and can help you design a website that meets the needs of your target audience. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you optimize your web design for maximum UX, or about any of our online or print marketing services for clients around SLC.
Those in the travel and tourism industries are always looking for ways to draw in increased business, and the digital marketing realm has only grown and grown as a vital approach here within recent years. We’re to the point where any major tourism or travel agency not utilizing digital marketing is falling behind their competition, and this is because online advertising approaches hold several major uses in today’s marketplace.
At BWP Communications, we’re happy to offer a wide range of digital marketing services to a hugely diverse array of clients and industries across Salt Lake City. If you’re in the travel or tourism agency and have not yet taken advantage of all the major benefits digital marketing has to offer, here are some of its key value-adds you’re missing out on.
In an industry like tourism, targeting of clients is a vital step in the advertisement process. Digital marketing allows for the use of highly specific targeting, allowing you to reach individuals who have shown an interest in your product and location before. This means you are able to reach out to potential customers at a much more effective rate than with traditional advertising approaches, leading to higher conversion rates and better ROI overall.
For instance, BWP Communications can use location data to target customers in specific countries and regions, as well as using demographics to hone in on your desired age range.
Another great benefit of digital marketing is its focus on analytics, making it easy to measure the results of your campaigns. This allows you to track ROI and make adjustments to your advertising approach as needed. Not only that, but this data can be used to inform future campaigns and help you project more accurately in the future.
With BWP Communications’ comprehensive analytics solutions, you’re able to better understand customer behavior and preferences, allowing for highly-targeted campaigns with more accurate messaging.
Through various digital marketing techniques, you can ensure that your travel or tourism agency is more visible to prospective customers. This includes optimizing website content for organic search traffic and making sure it is easy to find on social media platforms.
Let’s say, for example, that you’re trying to target a younger audience looking for an adventure abroad. With BWP Communications, we can help you create targeted campaigns to reach this demographic more effectively.
Another major part of success in the travel and tourism industry is customer engagement. Digital marketing can help you engage with customers more easily and effectively, allowing them to find out more information about your services and offerings without having to contact you directly.
Digital marketing campaigns are also a great way to promote special offers, discounts, and other promotions that may entice potential customers. With BWP Communications, we can help you create engaging campaigns that will capture the attention of potential customers and encourage them to book a trip with your company.
Because the travel and tourism fields are so heavily reliant on visuals, digital marketing campaigns are the perfect way to showcase stunning imagery of your destination or service. Through powerful visuals and well-crafted stories, you can help customers form a better connection with your brand and services, increasing the chances that they will book with you in future.
At BWP Communications, we have an experienced team of graphic designers who can help you create beautiful visuals and campaigns to showcase your travel or tourism agency.
Another key area of digital marketing is reputation management. Through various forms of online monitoring, you can ensure that your business remains in good standing and that any negative reviews are addressed quickly and properly.
Reputation management is crucial in the travel and tourism industry, as customers want to be sure they will get the best service possible when booking with you. BWP Communications can help you track and monitor your online reputation, while also providing strategies to address any issues that come up.
Ultimately, digital marketing is an essential part of success in the travel and tourism industry. With the right strategy and tools like BWP Communications’ services, you can take your business to greater heights. By utilizing targeted campaigns, tracking analytics, improving visibility and engagement, showcasing stunning visuals, and managing reputation, you can be sure to bring in increased business.
With these powerful digital marketing tools at your disposal, you can ensure that your travel or tourism agency is ready to take on the competition and draw in more customers. Don’t hesitate – get started with BWP Communications today for help with this or any other SLC marketing need!
