by Cassie Arnold | Sep 21, 2023 | Branding, Communications, Persuasion
Somethings never change. Prospective clients still tell me their partners and staff can produce all of the content they need. That’s the same argument I heard from my very first accounting firm client. And it’s true, but at what cost? Back at that meeting...
by Cassie Arnold | Mar 28, 2023 | Branding, Communications, Persuasion
Last week the Economist reminded me of an important fact about language: Redundancy is good. That may sound odd coming from me if you are familiar with my many rants about using fewer, and smaller words. But repetition is a best practice when...
by Cassie Arnold | Aug 31, 2021 | Branding, Communications, Persuasion, Sales
Depending on your generation, these phrases all mean the same thing: People don’t like to read. It takes much more effort to write something short and compelling than it does to ramble on padding sentences with equivocations and contingencies. But the effort is...
by Cassie Arnold | Aug 13, 2020 | Advertising, Branding, Communications, Persuasion
With the selection of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate, it was time for Biden campaign (Biden/Harris that is) to role out a new brand. A while back I took a look at the logos of the various Democratic candidates and noted that many of the logos...
by Cassie Arnold | Aug 10, 2020 | Communications, Persuasion
As a communication project, the campaign to spread the word about mask wearing during the pandemic has been an example of how to do everything wrong. Let’s put aside the early missteps on the subject as well as the political overtones it has taken on. Let’s just...
by Cassie Arnold | Sep 19, 2019 | Advertising, Communications, Persuasion
I happened on this fun story the other day where graphic artists critique the campaign logos for the top eleven Democratic contenders in the 2020 presidential campaign. Back when the world was young, I worked in politics, so I find this kind of minutia...
