So far through August of 2008 Austin real estate has seen home sales volume drop 23% while Austin home sold prices are up 2% for single-family homes within the city limits. A high withdrawal rate combined with these statistics indicate that many people are able to “stay put” rather than taking a loss on the sale of their home. This also indicates that people have…
Non-profits operate just like any other business – well aside from the fact that they don’t make a profit. All of the non-profits proceeds go to paying bills, paying employees, and then going to help the people they were founded to help. Non-profits’ budgets are traditionally tight and have become even tighter in these trying economic times. Non-profits do, however,…
The Presidential race isn’t just about the politics, the views, and the party affiliations. The presidential race is actually all about branding. Presidential Race Isn’t Complete Without Slogans The branding of a presidential candidate starts with the slogan, which typically portray that candidate’s platform. Slogans are very grassroots in that they get repeated; they appear on posters, flyers, billboards and…
Social media, it seems, is one of the hottest topics these days. Everyone is talking about Twittering, FaceBooking, Digging, Flickring, and Stumbling Upon. With all this talk about all of these sites, you many begin to wonder to yourself, “what does the term ‘social media’ mean anyway?” Social media, according to Wikipedia, is defined as the use of electronic and…
Austin, Texas – Aug 28, 2008 – Full Moon Design Group announces that they have recently added a blog to their website, www.fullmoondesigngroup.com. Co-founder Katie Osborne says, “The web has become a powerful research tool for the consumer and in return a powerful marketing tool for businesses. People are going to the web to research and find solutions to their…
The 2008 Summer Olympic Games came to a close in Beijing this weekend with as much fanfare as it opened. The closing ceremonies are a time to reflect on all the excitement that occurred over the past 17 days, and one can’t help but to think about the excitement that was caused by two Olympians in particular – Usain Bolt…
The Olympics are a time when the whole world pays attention to some healthy competition and to one country … the host country. The 2008 Summer Olympics are being held in Beijing, China this year and so far they are doing a bang-up job in the hosting realm. Everything that we have seen on the television, or in person if…
Branding is probably one of the most important aspects of marketing out there. Branding is what makes your first impression, your last impression, pretty much all of your impressions. Branding was a large topic of discussion at the 2008 HOW Design Conference that was held in Boston a few weeks back. (Just a side F.Y.I., next year’s conference is going…
Marketing on a Budget Marketing on a budget. This is a phrase that is probably on the minds of most of our current and potential clients these days. Although they know that they shouldn’t cutback their marketing efforts, especially during a slow economy … they are and who can blame them. But once the budget is cut, how do you…
Full Moon Design Group has decided that all work and no play makes us pretty dull. So we have decided that every now and again we are going to do an interview of one of our employees and then reveal the results to you in our blog. Our first victim, I mean interviewee, is one of the founding partners Vicky…
