Merry Christmas ~ It’s 5 Days of Awesome Time!

Monday December 17 – Friday December 21 ~ Get your marketing questions answered by our team on our FaceBook Page. Our Gift to you. No strings attached.

We Love Our Clients

 

Give the Gift of Marketing!

Looking for a new idea for giving? A gift idea for a business person? Ways to help charities?

Gift Cards from Engine Communications start at $25 and can be purchased for business or any not-for-profit organization. Help your favourite local charity or business person get ahead with Professional Marketing Material & Consulting Gift Certificates. Learn more>

New Interactive Online Marketing Website Launched!

Launcharoo!!

Congrats to Beauty Works Day Spa Belleville!

On your new interactive online marketing website.

It’s been our pleasure to work with you on your latest initiative!

Features include:

  • Banner Marketing
  • Creative Advertising Concepts
  • Branding & Taglines
  • Interactive Online Marketing
  • Calls to Action
  • Online Forms
  • CMS (content management system)

        AND…….. AWESOME SAUCE TOO!

Check it out here>

FREE LOGO WINNER for Adopt-a-Child Belleville, Prince Edward County & Hastings Fundraiser

Congratulations from Engine Communications!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The FREE LOGO WINNER for the Adopt-a-Child – Belleville, Hastings and Prince Edward County draw is Mary @ Crust and Crumb Bakery!

Thanks for helping to keep kids warm this winter! We’re looking forward to creating a VERY TASTY logo for you!

See Branding here. The possibilities are endless!

 

Engine Communications Knows Schools

It’s a numbers game these days. Let us help you get your numbers up with fresh, new and exciting marketing tools to help your school get noticed!

See our newsletter for schools.

Win Free LOGO ~ Keeping Kids Warm!

Winter Gear BLITZ for Adopt-a-Child!

This week only:   Blitz Donations of $100 or more to Adopt-a-Child will be entered into a draw WIN a custom-designed business logo from Engine Communications.

How? Once you’ve donated min $100, go to our FaceBook Page and post ” I donated. Enter me into the free logo draw”

You Can Help: Please Join, Like and Share this Last Minute Blitz This Week for Winter Gear for Kids event with your friends

Call 969-5555 or Visit:

Donations of $10 or more are eligible for tax receipts. Cash and cheques payable to Adopt-A-Child are accepted at:
– Belleville Police station, Dundas Street East at George Street,
– Quinte Broadcasting, 10 South Front Street,
– Stirling-Rawdon Police

– Central Hastings and Prince Edward County OPP.

Donate by Credit Card? Call 969-5555
Receipts for charitable gifts in kind are available if donors include their original receipts and mailing addresses.

About:   The Adopt-A-Child program assists low income working families and those on assistance with new winter outer wear. This program run by our Belleville City Police, Prince Edward and Madoc OPP, Stirling Rawdon Police and Quinte Broadcasting NEEDS your Help.

Imagine! Over 1,100 KIDS in our own backyard DO NOT have Winter Coats and Boots! The Adopt-A-Child Program assists low income working families and those on assistance with new winter outerwear. Your help is much appreciated!

PLEASE SHARE. Thanks!

Join Adopt-a-Child Belleville, Hastings & Prince Edward County on FaceBook

Look who just got a website makeover! See before and after transformations.

Tomasso’s Casual Dining Before…….


Tomasso’s Italian Grille After…..

 …man it was hard working on our fav restaurant site looking at these yummy food pics. Congrats to the Kotsovos family! It’s been our pleasure.
Visit the site. Check out their Facebook Page.
 

 MKR Dental Cabinets Before……


MKR Dental Cabinets After…..

 …what a great bunch over at MKR. Thanks for the smiles Richard. Congrats on
your new website. Visit the site.

Is your website really working for you? Learn more>

 Yes, you too can have your site kicked up major notches. Let’s chat!

Summer Olympics 2012

London 2012 Olympics LogoSummer is just around the corner, and that means that the Summer Olympics are too (July 27 – August 12). I just received an enewsletter from BrandsoftheWorld.com and I was reading about all the hype surrounding the logo created for the games held in London, England this year. According to www.spiked-online.com, criticism about the logo include: “the design sucks. It’s just too difficult to read the numbers ‘2012’. They are barely distinguishable as jagged, cut-out shapes, and the colours are garish. Meanwhile, the Olympic rings… have been shrunk to a tiny detail and treated in a single colour.” You are welcome to read the entire article here to get all the juicy details.

A couple of years ago we wrote a blog post about historical olympic logos and we asked what your favorite logo was. I’m curious what your thoughts are on this latest Olympic logo! I had a look at the ticket design for the games as well, and I can honestly say that I quite like them! I love the bright colours and I think that they have echoed the “jagged, cut-out shapes” and “garish” colours quite nicely in the design! Your thoughts?2012 Olympics Tickets

View them here

Funny Little Boxes

QR Codes by Engine Communications

QR Codes by Engine Communications

You may have seen these funny boxes and wondered what they are or perhaps you’ve used them on your Smart Phone. They’re called QR codes and they’re everywhere!

QR is short for Quick Response. What do you need to know now?

They send Smart Phone users directly to anywhere that is online. Engine creates customized versions of these QR codes. We’ve been using them for quite awhile now on signage, auto graphics, magazine ads, posters and more.  We get to play with colours, sizes from tiny to huge and have have fun hiding cool images inside of the boxes. While these funny little boxes can be great, let’s remember to give how we use them, a great deal of thought. Used correctly, your Online Marketing World can expand substantially.

Yes, we’ve seen them used incorrectly:

An example of using QR codes incorrectly? We’ve seen QR codes placed on websites. Huh? Ummm, no, that’s not the idea. Think print. You see, the idea is to send people to your website or other online content anywhere on the web. Driving traffic to your online content, continuing your marketing message and increasing business.

QR Codes? That’s Smart!

Your Project?

Only Engine Has the 7 Point Rule

We have a rule here at Engine Communications when we tackle projects. We really take our time to consider every aspect of your business or organization from a sales and marketing point of view. To make sure the magic really happens, we’ve created and follow 7 rules for every single client and every single task.

Size doesn’t matter!

Small business, large organization and everything in-between, we follow the 7 point rule. A tagline, ad copy, poster, website, multi-media or an entire campaign, the size of the project doesn’t matter. We follow our 7 point rule.

Rules. ONLY at ENGINE:

  1. Listen and understand the client’s needs.
  2. Learn about the products and/or services.
  3. Find out past and current marketing initiatives.
  4. Research competition and trends. Locally and Internationally.
  5. Be unique. Find the USP (unique selling point)
  6. Cross-connect online and offline projects.
  7. Always power the brand, empowering the client’s goals.

WHY?

Because to us, it’s about relationships and we care about your success. Your job is challenging enough. We’re here to make your life easier.

7 Rules ~ Only at Engine Communications.