Clearwire: Corporate Naming
Deploying wireless broadband is tricky, and so is communicating about it to a non-technical audience. Inter-Air Wireless turned to us to create a concise, memorable name with staying power. Our answer was “Clearwire.” They are now the largest 4G network in the United States, and expect to reach 120 million customers by the end of...
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TrueData Partners was a small start-up in the electronic legal discovery space. Technically smart and business agile, they were a David in a market dominated by Goliath. In order to grow their business to the next inflection point they realized they would need not only a strong identity but memorable and credible positioning. They turned to us for both. Not only was their identity weak, but none of the materials matched, leaving them with a disorganized and chaotic image. In order to rise above the noise, all of their materials...
read morei2Telecom: Building Awareness
Although it’s hard to remember now, telephone calls outside of your local area used to be very expensive, and international calling was ruinous. In 1950, a 15-minute call from New York to LA was over $30 (in 2001 dollars). Calls to London were 10 times that rate. The recent revolution in telephone pricing and capability is the result of a technical innovation called VoIP that made it possible to place calls over the Internet, bypassing phone companies altogether. With thousands of VoIP start-ups offering a dizzying array of hardware,...
read moreIDC: Product Integration
As one of the world’s leading analyst firms, IDC has significant brand equity with Wall Street and the IT Supplier community. Unfortunately, the rapid growth of the firm, combined with their breadth of product offerings, had left their product line in disarray. In order to compete in their current market and expand into other markets, IDC needed to strengthen its brand identity and improve the presentation and usability of its research content. They turned to us. Our team identified 50 different types of communications documents produced...
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