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Are you stimulating emotions while marketing with
your
business logo,
stationary, business cards, brochures, signs
and with your
website?
If you know it
or not, colors speak very loud to our
subconscious and
have a positive or negative reaction within
90 seconds. On
the web you have less that 30 seconds to make
a good first
impression.
Are you using
the silent language of color to impress,
motivate, divert
and persuade your prospects to buy from
you?
BLACK suggests
authority, power, boldness, seriousness, is
distinguishing
and classic. Business wise it's great for
creating drama
and is good for a background color (except on
websites, it is
very hard on the eyes). It is ideal for text
on a light
background. Black also implies submission and is
associated with
evil.
BLUE suggests
security, authority, faithfulness and dignity.
For business it
suggests sanctuary and fiscal
responsibility.
It is the most popular and the second most
powerful color.
Blue can also be cold and depressing. People
are more
productive in blue rooms.
BROWN suggests
richness, politeness, helpfulness and
effectiveness.
In business it suggests less important items.
Solid, reliable
brown is the color of earth and is abundant
in nature. Light
brown implies genuineness while dark brown
is similar to
wood or leather.
GRAY suggests
authority, practicality, earnestness and
creativity.
Business wise it is traditional and
conservative.
GREEN suggests
health, fertility, freedom, freshness,
healing,
tranquility and jealousy. Businesses use it to
communicate
status and wealth. It is the easiest color on
the eye and can
improve vision. It is a calming, refreshing
color.
ORANGE suggests
pleasure, cool, excitement, cheer,
endurance,
strength and ambition. For business it is good
for highlighting
information on charts and graphs.
PINK suggests
femininity, gentleness, well being and
innocence. For
business you must be aware of it's feminine
links and
implications.
PURPLE suggests
spirituality, royalty, luxury, wealth,
sophistication,
authority and mournfulness. In business it
is upscale and
works with artistic types. It is also
feminine and
romantic. However, because it is rare in
nature, purple
can appear artificial.
RED suggests
excitement, strength, sex, passion, vitality,
aggressiveness
and commands attention. Business wise it
associated with
debt, is great for boldness and accents. The
most emotionally
intense color, red stimulates a faster
heartbeat and
breathing.
WHITE suggests
refined, purity, devotion, contemporary and
truthfulness.
For business it can be sterile and refreshing.
The best color
on the web for a background color. Doctors
and nurses wear
white to imply sterility.
YELLOW suggests
warmth, sunshine, cheer, happiness, jealousy
deceit and
cowardice. Business wise it appeals to the
intellectual
types and is a good accent. Yellow enhances
concentration,
hence its use for legal pads. It also speeds
metabolism. It
is the most difficult color for the eye to
take in, so it
can be overpowering if overused.
Green, brown, and red
are the most popular food colors. Red
is often used in
restaurant decorating schemes because it is
an appetite
stimulant.
People respond
more to non verbal cues than verbal ones.
Make sure you
use the psychology of colors in all your
marketing, especially when
you can't be face to face.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Kurt
Geer has been helping folks online since 1999. The Internet
if used properly can be a VITAL source of
profits, not Instant Riches.
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