Visual Building Product & Material Marketing Blog

Insights on the visual presentation of building products, materials, concepts and systems

You Can’t Quarantine Hustle – Part 2 – Communicating While Working From Home

With the craziness that has come with the pandemic and quarantine measures, I thought I would share something that might help some of you who are trying to work from home for the first time. I’ve spent more than a decade running my business remotely, even spending 5...

You Can’t Quarantine Hustle – Part 1 – The Work From Home Morning Routine

With the craziness that has come with the pandemic and quarantine measures, I thought I would share something that might help some of you who are trying to work from home for the first time. I’ve spent more than a decade running my business remotely, even spending 5...

Increase the Success of Building Material Magazine Ads

Start “scaling-up” your marketing with product renderings and animations Ask a building product marketer about their advertising. They'll usually picture an ad in a trade journal’s printed or digital magazine. They’re hoping to catch their prospect’s eye while...

Start with WHY to Find Your Building Material Marketing Message

Introduction It’s a sunny Saturday morning and I’m stuck here at my computer looking for something to help take one of the things off my “honey-do” list. And it just happened again! Why does it keep happening over-and-over? Like I’m trapped in some lame version of...
 
18 Years . . .  How Did I Get Here?

18 Years . . . How Did I Get Here?

"I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.” - Oriah Since LinkedIn decided to remind me, and everyone else, that I have been drawing, animating and demonstrating building products...

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The Neuroscience Behind the Presentation of your Products

The Neuroscience Behind the Presentation of your Products

Sure there are manufacturing costs, spiking labor costs, competition and countless other pitfalls we can run into when trying to convince design and construction professionals to use our latest greatest building product. However, if we don’t address this one evil thing, everything else we do will be sure to fail.

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AIA Expo is Coming up this June, Are you Prepared?

AIA Expo is Coming up this June, Are you Prepared?

As you plan your trade show strategy for the upcoming AIA Expo in Chicago on June 26, there is no better time to polish up the way you visually represent, demonstrate and explain your building products to architects. Do this by making the few seconds you have count, by giving them stunning product images, by showing them beautiful details and dazzling them with video and animation. Make The Few Seconds You Have Count . . .

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