We are featuring today a collection of creative business card designs. These business cards are designed in unique shapes, textures, folds, cut outs and more. Some of these concepts can be done extremely cheaply, others not so cheaply, but as I’ve said before… the possibilities are endless!

Drop us a line for a free consultation on your next business cards project!

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What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! Things moved at the speed of light, right?  I watched and experienced first-hand the marketing and social media landscape change, consolidate, focus, develop and evolve all at the same time.

As I’ve said before, social media needs to be INTEGRATED into your overarching marketing plan.  It’snot the magic pill.  It’s not the hard sale, it’s the soft sell. It’s not going to blast your sales from $0 to $10,000 overnight.  But social media is a powerful marketing tool that must be used in your marketing tactics today.  And other important marketing tactics must not be ignored either.

So here are 8 marketing trends to implement in your 2012 marketing plan.

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In the pursuit of trying to get things done, some “top” brands have made mistakes. Here are some things to avoid, with no exceptions – things that we hope are rarely repeated.

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Australian tourism is a $94.7 billion industry that employs half a million Australians and involves 54,608 businesses. In the 2010/2011 financial year, the tourism industry represented 2.5% of Australia’s GDP at a value of approximately $35 billion to the national economy.

Here’s some MUST DO’S for tourism marketers in Australia!

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The rise and rise of Facebook is producing a scramble by marketers and companies to leverage its huge global database and traffic. Google is looking over its shoulder as Facebook grows at over 10 million users a month and sits currently at number two on web traffic rankings according to Alexa.com. Last year Facebook surpassed Google for the top ranking for total time spent online.

Google is even being forced to continually adjust its search engine algorithms to cater for the a social web that provides more prominence for social channels in its search results. Facebook has also become the 3rd largest video website with 46.6 million viewers sitting behind number one ranked video content property provider Google with its YouTube site and Yahoo at second ranking.

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With many possibilities of Photoshop, one magical category continues to turn heads. That skillful technique is knows as photo-manipulation. With the power of photo-editing applications, we are now able to merge two things together and get a surreal result. It may look like a piece of cake, but this kind of image editing takes many hours of practice.

For your amusement, we collected some creative animal photo-manipulations of experienced artist. All images present are of two different animals conjoined as one. Whether you think this is weird, creepy, or cool we hope that you will enjoy this inspirational showcase.

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Most people hate adverts. Intrusive, deceptive and boring are just three adjectives commonly used to describe advertising and its omnipresence in modern society. Say what you like about the 30 hilarious print ads below, however, boring they certainly are not!

They all use humour to great effect in order to connect with an audience. Some are surreal, others gruesome, sexy and bizarre, but each one delivers an ingenious comic hit that you can’t help but take notice of.

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Via Jeff Bullas

If haven’t picked up on it already, social media is MASSIVE! It’s also very cheap! It’s all a matter of how much time you have to put into you social media presence. The alternative is to hire someone like Wainwright Media to set up and manage your social media strategy. Drop us an email for a FREE consultation.

Here are some of the facts and figures to start you thinking and may give you reason to use Social Media to enhance and optimize your companies marketing online.

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