New Year, New Look for MyCoffeePro

my-coffee-pro_logo-bk-finalHappy New Year everyone!

For a while now, I’ve wanted to update the look of my logo and website here at MyCoffeePro, but I decided to wait for the new year to come along to get the renovations started. I also have to be careful of the underlying website structure because I definitely don’t want to lose my #1 position in Google for “coffee pro” … that would not be cool.

I wanted to keep my branding, but simplify it just a bit and make it easier on the eyes. I hope I’ve accomplished that by making the logo more of a square than a rectangle, re-coloring the logo to make the words pop better, and separating out the words to each rest on their own baselines for easier legibility. I got rid of the wisp of steam above the cup, but made the C in “Coffee” into a handle and I also enhanced the bottom of the cup to look even more like a smile, because that’s what coffee does to me Open-mouthed smile

I’m going into the new year with a slew of new client projects, which is a complete blessing in these tough times, so I’m not sure how long the renovations here will take so please bare with me as we take this little design journey together.

Best wishes to you and your loved ones for 2011 and may we all have a prosperous new year.

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Coffee-carts promotion -Scavenger Hunt

Blank Treasure Map Do you have multiple coffee cafes, coffee carts, or are you part of a bigger coffee franchise?

I recently had a client with multiple coffee carts needing an inexpensive marketing promotion to get her customers to visit those other locations.

We were looking into custom printed paper coffee cups (or cup sleeves) with scratch-off or pull-off pieces for an “instant win” effect. As you can imagine, this type of promotion is cost-prohibitive and didn’t fit into her marketing budget.

My AimItMedia.com creative solution was to develop a Scavenger Hunt game using branded printed cards, where a customer has to visit each location, purchase a drink, and find the scavenger item.

Here’s a break-down of how we created our game:

1. Decide upon the dates, duration, and rules for running your game. For this client, we chose to run the game during the month of August, starting on the 1st and running through to the end of the month. This worked well for this client because most of her customers are daily visitors and all of her locations are within driving distance of each other.

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