Archive for the ‘News’ Category

The Emperor has New Clothes!

Monday, August 13th, 2012

If something seems different around here, that’s because everything is. Angled End Identities has been completely rebranded, offering a beautiful new logo and facelifts throughout its online spaces. Let us know what you think about the new look!

Marketing Trends to Evaluate in 2012, Part II

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

A couple of weeks ago we looked at 3 smoking hot marketing trends that you may want to be fully-prepped on before year-end so you can come catupulting into the New Year over-achieving all of your targets, being seen as the marketing rockstar that you are by working marketing magic on a limited budget. Not to mention becoming the darling of the sales team, who have a steadily increasing stream of steadily increasing quality leads. Here then are the final two hot marketing trends to watch for: (more…)

5 Top Marketing Trends in 2012, Part I

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

As 2011 draws to a close, we at Angled End thought it would be useful to summarize the hot trends of the year that we believe will continue to gain serious momentum in 2012. In addition, we will look at some dark horses you may not have considered allocating budget for – but could be well worth using if the investment leads to more inquiries, leads, and new business for your company, while keeping in mind that all-important ROI metric which us marketers are increasingly being measured on.

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2011: The Year in Review

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Looking back on our biggest growth period in over a decade!

2011 was quite a transformational year for your favorite graphic design studio. We saw the creation of a second division, a big push into the online marketing space, the growth of our creative and engineering teams, onboarding of lots of terrific new clients, and a bounty of beautiful design work. Join us now as we highlight some of our favorite changes and proudest end results. (more…)

5 Step Website Test: Is Yours Making the Grade? (Part 1)

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

This is a two-part blog article. Part one will give you some tough love on whether your super-duper, snazzy looking site is really doing the job it’s supposed to. Part two will tell you how to accurately measure (for free!) how well your site is really doing versus your competition, and will include pointers on getting it up to par, or – depending on your commitment level – totally blowing it out of the water! (more…)

Discount Code For ‘Funnel’ Sales & Marketing Event – London Nov 1

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

Calling all London-based marketers or SMB owners looking to keep up with the latest trends and technologies! Angled End’s inbound marketing partner HubSpot is sponsoring the eConsultancy-hosted Funnel event taking place in Paddington, London on Tuesday November 1. HubSpot’s Director, Product Marketing, Kirsten Knipp (@kirstenpetra) will be giving a great talk on Lead Nurturing, and I will be demoing HubSpot’s new Website Grader app for the iPad. The whole day will be packed with content on cutting edge marketing techniques and admission is 195GBP. This 20% discount code is good until Monday: FLD460. (more…)

Announcing the 2011 Angled End-Run Website Giveaway!

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Angled End Athletics will give away a FREE website design/development project to the sports-related non-profit that is judged to offer the greatest benefit to the world. Contest candidates must have their principle place of business in Portland or San Francisco metropolitan areas and must submit an essay of 500-1000 words describing their history, mission and how a professionally-developed website will help the organization achieve its goals. Any not-for-profit organization whose mission relates to sports and/or fitness may apply. Click here to learn more »

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Monday, September 12th, 2011

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Video Interview: Whit Gurley

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Up close and personal with the founder of Angled End

Odds are, most readers of this newsletter have interacted with Mr. Gurley in one way or another. But this video interview, conducted by Angled End sales and marketing director Sandy Gans, offers a current look at how Whit works and what makes AEI successful. Click below to listen to what makes Whit and AEI tick, featuring previews of some of our best work!

Interview transcript below the video. Click here for a PDF version » (more…)

AEI Gets (Much) More Social!

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Angled End has finally jumped on board the social media train with new Facebook and Twitter profiles. Follow and Like us via the links in the right margin! »