All promotions starts with Perfect Logo

A logo design is like your company's face to the world. Its purpose is to uniquely identify your company and brand by making an indelible first impression on clients and customers. So if your logo is going to look very inconsistent on your various promotional marketing materials then that's going to be a problem. Reduce this hassle by starting out with an easy to reproduce logo.

Ask your marketing consultant about your logo before you approve it from your designer, because he will think of promotional merchandise and marketing activities for your business before he approves it or more simple is ask your self the following to make sure you have a perfect logo

Here are 5 basic things to consider:

1. What type of image are you going for? Do you want a descriptive logo with images or just a play on words?

2. What basic color would you like to use to represent your business? Will it fit in with your color scheme that is already in place on your web site or in your business correspondence?

3. What is the most important feature of your business that you would quickly like to convey? Is it a product or a service?

4. Do you want a complex or simple logo design? Large corporations like Nike or Target do well with simple, but a new small business might need more to make it memorable since it won't have the huge exposure that the big guys can afford.

5. Do you want your business name to be part of your logo? Small businesses may find this feature more important because of their need for exposure without the capital for large scale advertising services

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National Candy Cane Day

Today, December 26th is National Candy Cane Day. It's a celebration of the popular holiday candy traditionally eaten during the Christmas season. Much more than a candy, these peppermint red and white canes are symbolic and are used as decorations. But just because the holiday season is over, it doesn't mean that candy canes can't be used during promotions. Christmas in July promotions, or comedic Santa in the Spring events can be enhanced using promotional candy canes. Imprinted with custom messages, they can be included in mailings, or combined with other gifts to drive the theme.

The Benefit of Corporate Holiday Cards in Creating New Connections

Our life is all about connections. In personal lives as well as in the business world, connections with other people are what it is all about. For companies, connections are where the success in business is found. Relationships with customers, with colleagues along with with workers are all essential parts of a successful enterprise. Giving corporate promotional gifts for Xmas and birthday acknowledgements is a great way to create fresh relationships as well as bolster relationships already available. Such greetings can be a simple good will wish for the season or birthday or they may be expressions of gratitude for the person's involvement in the company's good results.

Corporate holiday cards, mailed for Christmas or birthdays to customers, associates as well as staff members are a well known means of keeping in touch with those who work in the business world circles the firm moves in. By giving these items which offer thanks or appreciation as well as wishes of good cheer, organizations get noticed and hopefully potential business relationships also.

Clientele who're presently dealing with the firm will appreciate the sentiments of thanks along with the good wishes for the holiday season or birthday in question.

Other patrons, such as prior clients who receive corporate holiday cards, may be inclined to revisit the company and rekindle business by buying anew the products or services offered by the enterprise that sent those greetings. Being reminded of the quality product or a nicely preformed service through corporate holiday cards is a great way for a past customer to be nudged into coming back.

If potential customers look at the top quality corporate holiday cards with an positive message of good cheer as well as appreciativeness, they'll likely remember that business when they are faced with a need this company can fulfill down the road.

Connections with personnel, clients and associates in the business world are the groundwork of a good, solid enterprise that is profitable. Corporate holiday cards play a small yet vital role in the building and maintaining of relationships between the firm which sends them and also the people that receive the cards. Whenever customers feel appreciated and noticed, they're likely to remember that emotion and support the firm later on. That support might be repeat business interactions or positive word of mouth testimonials to loved ones, buddies and co employees that could result in a lot more sales for the future. Corporate holiday cards are certainly a great investment.

Intel Core 2 Duo and Extreme Processors

For a company like Intel to stumble and that too, badly, for the two years prior to the launch of the now runaway hit, the Core 2 Duo has been quite an experience (not to be confused with the P4, Core Duo - whereas the P4 Core Duo could complete three instructions per cycle, the Core 2 Duo can complete 4 – and that is without talking about processing power and efficiency). Especially when the underdogs, AMD had almost overtaken it.

But then, all that has changed with the introduction of the Core 2 Duo and the rest. It was when Intel decided to scrap the Netburst micro-architecture that never reached the potential that Intel believed was possible, and focused on the Pentium M architecture designed by their Israeli team that things started brightening up.





The architecture of the chip is simply known as Core, of which the products include Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme. Both run on an 1066 MHz FSB bus and are built using 65nm transistors. Again, both are dual core chips, with the Core 2 Extreme coming with a higher cache and a higher clock speed. (There is also a workstation version of the Core architecture – Woodcrest Xeon.)

These processors are built on a 143 sq mm die and are made up of 291 million transistors, regardless of their L2 cache size. While rivals AMD use 90nm tranistors on their chips, Intel uses the 65nm ones.

Code named ‘Conroe’, Intel’s Core 2 Duo will have a mobile counterpart, named ‘Merom’.
Following are the various versions of the Core 2 Duo that are available.




Testing by PC World and others show that the Core 2 Duo processors are the fastest amongst the range considered for the desktop PCs. (Of course, we haven’t talked about the Quad Core ‘Kentsfield’ series from Intel – consisting of two Conroe chips.)

Apart from that, the Core 2 Duo series boasts of lower power consumption, resulting in lesser heat and higher performance.

Of course, the disadvantage is that you cannot use the processors on your existing motherboards as these processors - though they sit on the same Socket 775 interface as with the earlier Pentium 4 sockets – require different chipsets. Major manufacturers are ready with their motherboards which can use these Intel powerhouses, e.g. Gigabyte, ATI, nVIdia.

While it is difficult to say that whether investing in a Core 2 Duo motherboard makes sense in terms of longevity and it is known that the processor is incompatible with a lot of Pentium-compatible chipsets, it depends on the customer to make the call.

Processor Slots

These are used to attach the Microprocessor or Main Processor to the Motherboard. Mainly, there are three types of slots are available. (a) Pin Type Slot (b) Slot One (c) Socket Type.


(a) Pin Type Slot : This slot is used from the 80286 Stage to Pentium 4 Stage. This slot is in White Color with Holes for Processor. The holes of the slot are according to the processor type. In this slot we can attach Microprocessor and Heatsink with Fan.


(b) Slot One : This Slot is introduced in Pentium II Stage, and used till Pentium III 600 Mhz., Stage. The Slot is in Brown Color, looks like a Big PCI Slot. In this slot, we can attach Processor along with the Heat Sink and Fan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Socket Type : This is the Latest Slot which are used to attach Pentium D, Dual Core, Core 2 Duo and Quad Core Processors. It is introduced from Intel 915 Chipset Motherboards and still is in use with Intel 945, Intel 965 and later Motherboards. Oppositely to the Pin Type Slot, this slot is having Pins to attach the Processor.