The 10 Commandments of Guerrilla Marketing Design

Written by Roger C. Parker


Guerrilla Marketing Design is more an attitude than a system of do’s and don’ts. It’s an attitude that emphasizesrepparttar efficient and memorable delivery of information.

-First Commandment: Purposeful

Guerrilla Marketers view design not as a matter of subjective likes and dislikes but as a strategic tool intended to achieve specific goals. Guerrillas avoid unnecessary decoration. Every mark onrepparttar 120371 page must serve a purpose. Guerrillas make design decisions based on how efficiently their designs communicate a desired message to a specific audience.

Guerrilla Marketing design begins with a plan, based on careful analysis of message, audience and competition.

-Second Commandment: Recognition

Guerrilla Marketers refuse to get lost in a crowd. They know is it better to stand out and be recognized rather than confused with their competition.

Guerrillas recognize that their customers and prospects are bombarded with thousands of competing messages each day. Accordingly, Guerrillas choose colors, typefaces and layouts that project a distinct, easily recognized image that sets their message apart and accurately reflects their values.

Their designs project a consistent image throughout all of their marketing. Consistency is achieved by using a unique combination of colors, type and layout throughout their print and online communications. This consistency multipliesrepparttar 120372 impact of their marketing dollars.

-Third Commandment: Readable

Guerrilla Marketing Design is reader-friendly design.

Guerrillas recognize that readers are in a hurry and that anything that interferes with easy reading sabotagesrepparttar 120373 delivery of their message.

Guerrillas make reading easy by paying close attention to typeface, type size and line spacing choices. They take painstaking care with spacing, hyphenation and punctuation. They carefully avoid design traps like setting entire words in upper case or overusing white text placed against gray or black backgrounds.

Picket marketing

Written by Ankesh Kothari


Gerald F Kein was a hypnotist. His office was located onrepparttar second floor of a building located on a heavily traveled highway at Fort Lauderdale. He was a good hypnotist. But he wasn’t well known. He wanted to change that.

This is what he did: He paid a few aged people who had nothing better to do than play cards whole day and told them to make some picket signs and protest against hypnotism in front of his building.

A week later,repparttar 120370 picket signs were made. Andrepparttar 120371 bunch of elderly people duly came and stood wait underrepparttar 120372 building very early inrepparttar 120373 morning. They started shouting slogans and waved their picket signs that said:

* “Hypnotism isrepparttar 120374 work ofrepparttar 120375 devil” * “Hypnotism is evil” * “Hypnotism is mind control” * “Save our children”

As soon asrepparttar 120376 rally started, Gerald went to his office and started placing calls torepparttar 120377 local newspapers and television stations. Within half an hour, newspapers and television stations sent over their reporters and photographers. The TV stations featuredrepparttar 120378 news story inrepparttar 120379 9 o clock news. He also made it to his local newspaper. And his photo was published too.

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