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Doylestown, PA (PRWEB) November 5, 2005

MARKETRI LLC, a full-service B2B marketing company, is sponsoring a contest for one eligible company to receive a complementary corporate identity makeover. MARKETRI will work with the winner to update or completely redesign its company logo and color palette.

“A company’s visual identity needs to change or be enhanced over time to reflect how it has grown in size and scope of operations,” said Debra Andrews, MARKETRI’s Managing Director. “Many companies keep their original design which was most likely created on a shoestring budget. This can be damaging to a company’s brand and hurt them during the business development process,” said Andrews.

To be eligible for the contest, the company must be an established B2B company headquartered in Bucks County, PA and cannot be a current client of MARKETRI. Companies interested in entering the contest should go to MARKETRI’s Web site at www.marketri.com and fill out the entry form on the home page. A winner will be chosen based on their responses to the questions on the submission form. All entries must be received by November 30, 2005. The winning company will be selected by December 15, 2005 and its new corporate identity will be unveiled on January 2, 2006.

MARKETRI is a full service provider of results-driven marketing. The company provides Marketing Strategy & Positioning; Marketing Planning; Marketing Coaching; Brand Identity Development; Print & Web-based Creative Design; Web site & Weblog Design; Search Engine Optimization; Database Management; and Public Relations services to B2B companies in the greater Philadelphia area.

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Athens, Greece (PRWEB) June 12, 2005

Xtend B2B Ltd. announced today the launch of its newly designed and engineered corporate website. The redesigned site, found at www.xtendb2b.com, integrates a strong new corporate brand with the most up-to-date information about the company, its international service range and its worldwide activities.

Xtend B2B’s new corporate website design reflects the combination of Xtend B2B’s high quality, result-oriented services range for large and SMB Clients who plan to boost international sales activities and the strength of local presence in the most crucial international markets.

The whole corporate website project was planned, designed and executed in-house by the Web Services Department team of Xtend B2B.

About Xtend B2B Ltd.:

Xtend is a European based business development company providing a variety of valuable services to foreign businesses for developing and supporting their expansion in International markets.

Thanks to our extensive network of Global Coverage in 19 different local markets and our flexibility in selecting the best alternatives for our Client, Xtend B2B is in position to handle your products and services successfully in almost any geographical part of the world. Xtend saves the Client from heavy direct financial investment for international expansion, minimize Client’s business risk and maximize the actual results.

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What the public sees from the outside is the kind of corporate image that the company has. It is their image and the initial reaction of the people who look at them. People form their own concept about what a group of people are judging from what they see and what they hear. If a person hears a lot about the good things that Company X does then that person, who is observing the company, will automatically think that this Company X must be good. If Company X launches a product then that person will subconsciously remember the good things he heard in the past and will patronize Company X. Not only that, he will even tell his family and friends about Company X’s good deeds.

The good thing about having a good image is that even if sometimes your product failed to keep up with the standard for a time, it would be easier for the public to “forgive” you and will try to brush the failure off owing to the fact that you have been “good” in the past anyway. These are mental pictures that your public has about you and it is important that you try to create positive images that you can bank on when you need it the most.

Coming up with an image that could help your company have a good image may not be as easy as it sounds. Although it is generally easy but the implementation can be a challenge in itself. Think about it as cleaning house. You need to go through the nooks and crannies of your house and take out all the trash that has been creating a foul smell inside. After gathering all those trash you need to lug it all outside and throw them out. These garbage are heavy and cleaning is never an easy task. This is the same and true even to “cleaning up the company from the inside.”

Creating an image that is pleasant is like cleaning trash. You may need to go through the nooks and crannies of your company policy and identify which of your policies are making your employees unhappy and a complaining bunch. These policies may have been useful in the past but as things have changed and time has brought about new challenges, these policies may not be useful anymore. Like trash that has outlived its usefulness, it is time for you to change some things in your policy. If you want a happy company then it must have happy employees that are satisfied and well-fed.

Of course it will be hard to “take out trash” but this needs to be done if you want a positive change to happen. There will be people whom you may need to let go as you change some of your company’s policies. These people may have been the very ones causing the stench inside but you need to do something about it. Albeit painful, this is a good way to go in creating a positing corporate image that will serve you in the long run.

So, there’s two ways to look at this. One would be to gawk at the fact that ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports broadcasting, is.

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E-Readers which are also called digital or electronic readers, lets users wirelessly download books and read them on hand-held devices resembling a glorified etch-a-sketch. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but these handy little digital readers have become extremely popular; according to a recent Time article, Amazon has already sold 1.7 million of the Kindle E-Reader since it was introduced in 2007.

And according to the same article, the Association of American Publishers states total revenue from digital-book downloads has risen 149% this year, while they estimate e-book readers sales to top 3 million by Dec. 31. Plus, according to Forrester Research around 1 million of these gadgets could be sold this holiday season, and sales in 2010 are projected to double, to 6 million.

“The year 2009 is a breakout year for e-readers,” says Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst with Forrester Research. “But we’re still in the early stages.”

Those make for very impressive numbers and it could point to E-Readers as “the” hot Christmas gift this Holiday Season; at least where tech gadgets are concerned. Given its well received features and programs, an E-Reader could make for an excellent corporate business gift, especially if you could brand them with your company logos and stream them with your company’s newsletters and RSS feeds.

Then we also have the recent launch of the NOOK from Barnes & Noble which will give the Amazon Kindle some competition. The Nook has a 6-inch paper-like display which uses a 16-level grayscale that can support up to five fonts. You can use it to read PDFs, in addition to over 1 million books, newspapers and magazines available in Barnes & Noble’s eBook store. The Nook is currently priced at around $260.

How is it different from the Kindle: besides the flashy color icons, designer cases and color customizable back panel; the Nook does have some nice features such as a virtual bookmark called Reading Now that lets you pick up where you left off reading on the Nook, and it has Wi-Fi radio which customers can use at 700 Barnes & Noble’s locations and at 600 college stores in 50 states. There’s enough memory for holding 1,500 books (2 GB) and there’s a microSD slot which could give you another 16 GB more.

But this holiday season, gift buyers (corporate or otherwise) will have many more E-Readers to choose from other than the Kindle and the Nook. Where there’s a profit to be made, other companies will follow. Just like when Asustek invented the category of Netbook with its ASUS Eee-PC in 2007, other laptop makers and sellers quickly jumped on the bandwagon and the marketplace was flooded with netbooks or mini-laptops.

This recent trend towards E-Readers will prove no different; take for example Sony, who introduced the first electronic reader way back in 2004, will be introducing three new devices according to the Time’s article. The Sony Reader will have a Pocket Edition ($199), sporting a 5-inch-diagonal screen, Touch Edition ($299) which will be touchscreen-equipped and the Daily Edition ($399), which will feature wireless capability.

Asus is also entering the E-Reader market with a product called the Eee-reader which should be on the market for Christmas. Then there is the Fujitsu FLEPia which is the only commercially available E-Reader which has a color display. It’s only available in Japan and costs around $1,100. Ouch!

For the more modest consumer, the Irex Digital Reader will be hitting U.S. stores this month, October 2009. The DR800 will have an 8.1-in. touchscreen with wireless connectivity and will sell for $90 less than the similarly sized Kindle DX, which will set you back around $489. This is the price at the time of writing, expect those prices to drop as competition heats up.

On the horizon, there are many different versions of the e-reader that will hit the market. There is even a fold up model which will open like a book and another one called the Polymer Vision Readius which is also a phone but it has a flexible screen that folds up around the phone to make it extra portable.

Then we have the looming debut of Apple’s fabled iTablet which could be a game changer in the whole E-Reader arena. It could also be a Kindle or Nook Killer given Apple’s enormous popularity with tech savvy consumers who only want the latest gadget on the market.

One really has to question why all this popularity for the E-Reader, especially since we already have the small portable netbook on the market, which can be easily used for reading books. More specifically, we already have Tablet PCs which could easily fulfill this reading function. Granted they may be slightly larger, but they also offer all the features of a laptop, so why not just convert/use this device as an E-Reader?

Regardless, the E-Reader seems to be gearing up to be a top tech gift this holiday season. The perfect gift for family members, friends and employees alike… especially for the book-reading fanatics in your family or company. E-Readers are also the ideal gifts for those who simply must have the latest and newest tech gadget on the market.

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