Business Letterheads from the greats
4th September 2010 : 3:55PM Posted by Connor mc Auley
Sometimes, you just can't decide on a business letterhead. What colours to use, what text to include, what text to exclude? It all gets very serious if we're totally honest.
If you want a little help designing your letterheads give us a call. But for now, here are some of the worlds classic letterheads from people we aspire to be or to work for including:
Pixar
Shirley Temple
Potato Corp - Classic American style
And after all this, if you decide to check out our Letterhead prices please click here
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Social Media Marketing: Denon 100
4th September 2010 : 1:05PM Posted by Connor mc Auley
This week, we were accused of not letting our customers know all the social media services we provide. My reply, was along the lines of "we have been too busy to promote the new online work we're doing"
This was my first mistake of the morning. On closer reflection, yes we have been very very busy and no we havent considered any external marketing, but our social media services are not presented in a scattered approach, but tailored to the customers we know it will work for and have the confidence in us to provide such a service.
Our referrals online are the testament to social media work we undertake and furthermore a great opportunity to showcase that social media does work for small local businesses and international ones alike.
This week, we launched our first truly international campaign. A momentous occasion for us, but really just another day in the office. Denon the worldwide high end audiovisual brand are celebrating their 100th Year anniversary. They have tasked us with launching a social media campaign & generating online awareness throughout the course of the year. This is no doubt a great opportunity to showcase our talents and we cant wait.
As part of the campaign we have launched the Denon 100 Facebook Fan Page & also the Denon 100 microsite and will be promoting these extensively over the next year.
Have a look, become a fan and enter for your chance to win a DM38 Microsystem and some fabulous noise canceling headphones.
If you are interested in finding out how social media can help your business, please give us a call on 028 9002 2474
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Design Freelancers - Update your knowledge & profits
2nd August 2010 : 1:28PM Posted by Connor mc Auley
Borrowed from DZine Blog
14. Update your knowledge
Freelancers must apply the Japanese’s Kaizen method of continuous incremental improvements. It is simply a gradual and continuous improvement. At the end, any small or big improvements make a big difference. Industry standard softwares (Adobe, WordPress etc) are loaded with new features. Freelancers should include in their weekly schedule to try tutorials for existing and new softwares.
On another note, Kaizen Print are looking for Design Freelancers to become associates of the company. In return for selling our print services, we will provide trade pricing for all work & furthermore, assist you with the marketing of these services.
Most importantly! At no cost to you.
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Web Design: A Quay Move for your Business?
17th June 2010 : 12:04PM Posted by Connor mc Auley
The studio has just uploaded and signed off our newest creation. Hooray! Web Design & development for Quay Gate House.
The custom built site utilises 3 galleries, contact form and an array of behind the scenes cms magic beans.
Have a look and let us know what you think
Quay Gate House
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Case Study: TW Sports Leaflet Printing
17th June 2010 : 8:25AM Posted by Connor mc Auley
Leaflet printing is one of the most effective ways of promoting your business. Many companies throughout the province use a variety of activities, with leaflet design, print and mailing at the centre of marketing focus. Throughout the last few months, we have worked on a number of high profile leaflet campaigns for a wide variety of markets; however, none are as prominent in our mind as the projects completed for TW Sports. If you are not aware of these guys and you have children, you definitely want to check out their summer schools for some of the best coaching available on our “wee” island.
We started our first leaflet project for TW Sports Easter Schools and provided an initial consultation, to ascertain the key messages to be portrayed in this project. This was followed by design of the A5 leaflets & posters used to promote the events.
Not only were we on hand to provide sound advice, as well as affordable design and print, but also through our distribution partners, we were able to save TW Sports considerable time and money on the posting of over 5000 leaflets.
Our help and support throughout this first project has led just this month, to the completion of our second major project for Tim and his team.
The TW Sports World Cup Summer Camps, for children between the ages of 2 & 13, start on the 5th July and are being held in 14 locations around throughout province. Please visit TW Sports or visit them on Facebook for more information.
Tim Kindly provided the following testimonial of our work:
Kaizen Print & Marketing provide high quality, sensibly priced marketing materials and business stationery. Working to the tightest deadline & budgets, Kaizen Print are only just a call away.
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Vintage does actually Rock!
8th June 2010 : 9:14AM Posted by Connor mc Auley
We work with a diverse array of businesses from Pharmaceutical Distributors right through to Beauty Salons & of course most of the Hospitality industry in Belfast! However, none are as bright and effortlessly cool as Vintage Rocks Hair and Beauty Parlour.
We have worked with Clare and her team for nearly 5 months now and the effort they put in their marketing campaigns is second to none. I am sure you have seen some of their AWESOME photoshoots online or in NI's fashion bibles. If you haven't I assure you, you will be in for a treat.
The photo above was taken with our lovely A6 flyers at the Glitter and Sparkle Ball a month ago
Visit the Vintage Rocks Website
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Flyer Printing for Clan Wars 4
3rd June 2010 : 7:42PM Posted by Connor mc Auley
Thought MMA was hard work? Well after finishing a little flyer printing for the guys in the IFS MMA camp, I was invited to join their class for a training session. Thankfully there was no photographic or video evidence to show I was there, but I can assure you, that these boys mean business!
It's now Thursday evening and I'm still feeling the effects of 2 hours solid training. Thats a good thing right? While we cant take the credit for the fantastic designs (credits to follow), we can confidently shout from the "cage" that these flyers were awesome when printed.
Spec: 350gsm Silk, Colour 2 Sides. Check out our prices here
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Viva La Glam - Thursday 2nd September
11th May 2010 : 3:45PM Posted by Connor mc Auley
At Kaizen Print we try and do our little bit to help our customers and their good causes. With this in mind, we have been working with the team at Candy Plum, a fantastic boutique in Hillsborough on a project called Viva La Glam.
Remember this is being written by a 27 year old bloke
Viva La Glam is a ladies night to support the S.A.M Charity. It is being held on the 2nd September, which is just before the annual Hillsborough Oyster Festival. We have supported the organising committee with, design, poster printing, flyer printing and tickets for the event.
A bit more about the event rom the organisers
Viva La Glam is this years fashion event at The Hillsborough Oyster Festival!
Viva La Glam is a ladies' ultimate girly night out!
With a fabulous fashion show lined up with amazing retailers such as Candy Plum, Una Rodden, Wish Bridal, Grainne Maher Millinery and Angelo Designer Handbags.
The very talented Shane Bennett is creating an unmissable 'Showgirl' hair finale which will ned to be seen to be believed!!
If gorgeous fashion and stylish hair isn't enough then fear not............ we will also have the crowning of 'Miss Oyster Pearl 2010', judged by the lovely Tracey Hall and Lisa Harrison.
Ladies will also have the chance to discover and shop the latest beauty secrets from Temple Spa and Senna Make-Up as well as the chance to put the finishing touches to their outfit with some gorgeous jewellery from Shannon's Jewellers in Lisburn!
As well as a gorgeous West Coast Cooler drinks reception, ladies will be treated to scrumptious delights provided by The Plough Inn in Hillsborough, which i'm sure you can all agree, is indeed, a treat in itself!!
This ultimate Ladies Night Out is indeed all for a very good cause - to raise some much needed money for S.A.M - Struggle Against Muscular Dystrophy.
S.A.M is this years selected charity for The Oyster Festival. S.A.M is indeed a Hillsborough based charity and the money raise from this event will help the charity to ultimately improve the treatment, quality of life and long term outlook for persons affected by Muscular Dystrophy through awareness, research, education and advocacy.
Ticket Price: £25
All of the above is included in your ticket price.
Tickets can be purchased from Candy Plum in Hillsborough or from www.hillsboroughoysterfestival.com
We look forward to seeing you all there! xo
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Back to Belfast with a bang
10th May 2010 : 9:44AM Posted by Connor mc Auley
After 8 months of starting up Kaizen Print, I decided I needed a little RnR. I have honestly worked harder in the past year, than ever before in my life! But that of course has its rewards. And that was a a week long break to Lanzarote.
True to form, I was scouting out business card designs and negotiating flyer printing with local club owners. It has to be done, doesn't it. Well the answer quite frankly is No, it doesn't!
With no laptop and very limited internet access, this left me to the worst possible thing; my thoughts. Weird and wonderful ideas sprung up from many margaritas on the beach and most importantly I came back rested and with a renewed sense of energy. That plus 546 emails to respond to. At time of writing this, I am down to 49, and this is not including the emails the rest of the team looked after.
When I get these emails replied to, the following projects are top priority for the Kaizen Print Team.
Canvas Printing Service
Memorial Cards
Flyer Distribution.
These are all services we have provided from Day 1, however, as a new customer recently pointed out - because our services are so varied and wide ranging, we need to talk about hem more often.
Secretly, I'm glad to be back in the office and I know the rest of the team share my sentiments......
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New Club Mono Website
7th April 2010 : 7:56AM Posted by Connor mc Auley
Morning All,
We have just finished the incredible new website for Club Mono and my goodness it looks outstanding. We would like to give the guys at Mono for this opportunity to develop and grow another side to our business.
A big thank you also goes to our Web Development Team who made this possible!
Club Monos Website includes:
Custom CMS
Mailchimp Mailing List API integration
Custom Event Calendar
Media Player and Mix download centre
Social Media Integration
Not to mention all the graphics we have designed for their flyers.
