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Clients Vote Up Borenstein Group to Clutch’s Top 1000 Global Companies List; Rank Borenstein Group as one of Best B2G & B2B Branding Agencies in 2019

December 12, 2019 by Gal Borenstein Leave a Comment

The Borenstein Group, a leading B2B and B2G integrated branding agency, has announced Clutch Research recognized it as one of the Top B2G & B2B Branding Agencies in its Top 1000 Companies Annual listings. According to Clutch, “Digital strategy and branding are essential components to elevating the character that your company has to raise it’s ROI. Clutch, the B2B ratings and reviews platform in the DC metro area, recently announced its global Clutch 1000 list that features the top companies around the world who excel in their craft.

Gal Borenstein, Borenstein’s CEO, stated, “We’re proud to be on that list amongst the other great companies! To our clients: thank you for the support you have for us and for leaving project feedback on our Clutch profile. We are proud to wear the 5 out of 5 ratings because it came from you. That’s what we do. We handle the branding, so you can get to work on the things that keep the wheels turning in your company. We’re proud that our branding efforts this year haven’t gone unnoticed. The Borenstein Group is honored to be recognized as Clutch’s Top 1000 for 2019. As a market leader in B2B and B2G Branding, Marketing, and Public Relations, we believe that nothing is more important than what other people say about you when you’re not in the room’. This third-party validation by the Clutch professional research team accomplishes that.” – CEO, Borenstein Group

According to Clutch, “While Borenstein Group wasn’t in the room, its clients sang praises of trust, expertise, and creativity about Borenstein Group’s work. They appreciated the agency’s strategic efforts to help their business succeed, and they are proud to have done just that for them. Clutch sister sites, The Manifest and Visual Objects, help Borenstein Group appear on a resource list for research on US-based agencies and a platform that showcases digital portfolios of top-performing agencies in various industries.

We are looking forward to meeting our future clients, and this award will help us differentiate our expertise against the others in the B2G and B2B branding arena. If you’re ready to kick off a project consultation call, schedule it with us today!

Tate & Tryon, Top Non-Profit Accounting Firm, Mints Gold with Best Professional Services Website in 2017 Annual International Davey Awards.

December 13, 2017 by Gal Borenstein Leave a Comment

Washington, DC– Tate & Tryon, a national top accounting firm that specializes in supporting the non-profit sector, has received the gold award for its new digital rebranding and its website in the 13th Annual Davey Awards as announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, today. The digital rebranding work was created by Borenstein Group, a top Washington DC B2B digital marketing agency. With nearly 4,000 entries from across the US and around the world, the Davey Awards honor the finest creative work from the best small agencies, firms, and companies worldwide.

The Davey Awards are judged and overseen by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), a 700+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts, dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Current membership represents a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms including: Code and Theory, Condé Nast, Disney, GE, Keller Crescent, Microsoft, Monster.com, MTV, Push, Publicis, Sesame Workshops, The Marketing Store, Your Majesty, Yahoo!, and many others. You can visit www.aiva.org for more information on the Academy and a full list of members.

The enhanced look and feel of the Tate & Tryon website is a modernization of Tate & Tryon’s brand, and one of its first steps in a proactive approach to the services it provides. The website’s design, content, and structure are intended to work together to reflect Tate & Tryon’s core values and communicate its capabilities in a new era of non-profit accounting. Visit the new site at www.tatetryon.com

In a recent brand launch release, Charles Tate, Tate &Tryon’s Managing Director, stated, “The driver for this growth initiative is the industry’s need to embrace data analytics in our community; to build insights that can help our clients make better decisions.” Tate explained the strategy as moving from being reactive to proactive. He said, “Revamping our website and tagline represents a new era of innovation with more value in mind. We needed a strong tagline that moved away from historically-based traditional financial statement preparation to a forward-looking, data-driven reporting model. Hence our new tagline is: Driving Insights That Count. ‘Insights’ has a forward-looking, consultative connotation and embeds our institutional experience. ‘Count’ is a bit of a wordplay to indicate that we are accountants – but innovative and data-driven.”

Mr. Gal Borenstein, Borenstein Group’s CEO, commented “Borenstein Group is proud to be a strategic marketing and branding partner for Tate & Tryon. Their bold and innovative leadership challenged us to create a distinct look that would break away from the traditional look and feel of most accounting firms to convey their progressive approach. This award is one form of third-party validation to our mutual efforts and the client’s bold vision.”

About Borenstein Group:
The Borenstein Group, Inc. is a Northern Virginia-based integrated strategic digital marketing communications agency that specializes in supporting B2B and B2G marketers in the areas of professional services, management consulting, systems integration, information technology, supply chain and logistics, homeland security, defense, intelligence, telecommunications, aerospace, and manufacturing. Learn more at www.BorensteinGroup.com

About Tate & Tryon: Tate & Tryon is a leading accounting and management consulting firm, that specializes in supporting national and international non-profits. The Firm has been named a 2017 IPA 200 Firm by INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA) for the fourth consecutive year. Tate & Tryon clients represent a broad range of more than 600 national and international non-profit organizations. Although Tate & Tryon serves various sub-specialties of the tax-exempt organization world, its entire practice is dedicated to exclusively serving charities, foundations, associations, advocacy groups, and other organizations. Non-profit organizations have many lessons to share with one another. The depth of the firm’s experience in the non-profit industry affords its clients a unique view of best practices, which in turn enhances the level of service and overall value provided.

About the Davey Awards: The Davey Awards exclusively honor the “Davids” of creativity, the finest small agencies, firms, and companies worldwide. David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock – the sort of thing small agencies do, each year. The annual International Davey Awards honor the achievements of the “Creative Davids” who derive their strength from big ideas rather than big budgets. Please visit www.daveyawards.com for more information.

Chief Marketer 200 Recognizes Borenstein Group as one of America’s Top B2B Digital Marketing Agencies for 2018

December 6, 2017 by Gal Borenstein Leave a Comment

Washington, DC – December 6^th, 2018– Chief Marketer, a leading publisher of content for Fortune 1000 marketers, today unveiled the Chief Marketer 200. It is the world’s first and only comprehensive editorial list of the best non-advertising agencies. The CM200 features editorial listings and coverage of agencies spanning 11 categories, including Experiential, Sports & Entertainment, Promotion, Retail/Shopper, Digital/Content, Social Media, Design and Innovation, B2B Demand Gen, B2B Brand Engagement Marketing, B2B Experiential Marketing and Martech.

In its review announcement, Chief Marketer stated about Borenstein Group: “From the nation’s capital comes one of the only 100-percent B2B digital branding agencies. The shop hangs its hat on creating brand chemistry born out of “creativity bonding with strategy” and is focused on offering B2B campaigns anchored in research and communications. Digital capabilities span website design and development, user experience and planning, microsites and digital sales development, webinars and SEO/SEM.”

Mr. Gal Borenstein, President and CEO of Borenstein Group, noted, “We are very proud to represent excellence and data-driven creativity in the B2B marketing space. Moreover, we are delighted to represent Northern Virginia and the Washington DC metro region as one of the only agencies that made the cut.”

“The marketing landscape has changed dramatically in the past decade. Advertising is no longer driving the rest of the marketing mix,” says Jessica Heasley, Content Director at Chief Marketer. “Non-advertising spending is on the rise because it speaks to the wants and needs of today’s customers. The Chief Marketer 200 helps marketing professionals navigate

this vibrant and fast-moving community of agencies and gives them insights to seek out the right partners for their brands.”

Chief Marketer’s editors accepted submissions from across the country for the CM200 earlier this fall. Winners were selected based on several criteria including insightful client testimonials; outstanding case study submissions; high caliber, consistent work across programs and clients; innovative and creative executions; and bold and inspiring concepts and ideas that are moving the industry forward. The 200 agencies selected for this year’s inaugural program are thought leaders in their craft and representative of the best of the marketing industry.

ABOUT BORENSTEIN GROUP:
The Borenstein Group, Inc. is a Northern Virginia-based integrated strategic digital marketing communications agency that specializes in supporting B2B and B2G marketers in the areas of professional services, management consulting, systems integration, information technology, supply chain and logistics, homeland security, defense, intelligence, telecommunications, aerospace, and manufacturing. Learn more at http://www.borensteingroup.com.

ABOUT CHIEF MARKETER: Chief Marketer, an Access Intelligence brand, provides marketers and aspiring CMOs with content, ideas, recognition and events that help them make smarter decisions with their marketing budgets. It offers data-driven industry intelligence, actionable insights, inspiring case studies and the latest technology trends so marketers can improve their campaigns and increase ROI. CM has more than 150,000 readers who rely on its content and live-event resources to help them cut through the noise and find the solutions necessary to optimize their performance.

ABOUT ACCESS INTELLIGENCE: Access Intelligence, a portfolio company of Veronis Suhler Stevenson, is a b-to-b media, event and information company serving the media, PR, cable, healthcare management, defense, chemical engineering, satellite, and aviation markets.

Clutch Research Names Borenstein Group, Washington DC & Baltimore’s Top Digital Agency for 2017

October 26, 2017 by Gal Borenstein Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON, DC, October 26, 2017 – Clutch announced the top advertising and marketing agencies and web and app development companies in Washington, DC, and Baltimore. A leading B2B research, ratings and reviews firm, Clutch evaluates companies on their ability to deliver, market presence, and experience. Clutch’s ongoing research features eight industries and identifies the leading companies in each.

Top digital marketing agencies in Washington, DC, and Baltimore: Borenstein Group, Inc. WebMechanix, PBJ Marketing, R2integrated, Whittington Consulting, Knucklepuck, Foster Web Marketing, Bluetext, BlueTree Digital, Udonis, Interactive Strategies, Big Oak Studios, Viget, GKV, and Imagine.

Mr. Gal Borenstein, Founder & CEO, commented “We are very pleased to receive this third-party validation from a prominent and objective research firm like Clutch. At the end of the day, clients seek partners, not vendors, and we follow that philosophy to ensure we don’t automate problems but automated creative and strategic solutions to help companies grow through branding, marketing, and public relations in the age of digital. Ultimately, great agency work isn’t about winning creative awards; it’s about having happy clients that appreciate the value we add to their business. “

Clutch Research Names Borenstein Group, Washington DC & Baltimore’s Areas’ Top Digital Agency for 2017

Clutch identified the top performing agencies and developers using a unique rating methodology that considers market presence, ability to deliver and verified reviews and ratings. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clutch-announces-the-leading-agencies–developers-in-washington-dc-and-baltimore-300543806.html

The full research can be found at:

https://clutch.co/agencies/digital/washington-dc/leaders-matrix

https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing/washington-dc/leaders-matrix

About Clutch

A B2B research, ratings, and reviews firm in the heart of Washington, DC, Clutch connects small and medium businesses with the best-fit agencies, software, or consultants they need to tackle business challenges together and with confidence. Clutch’s methodology compares business service providers and software in a specific market based on verified client reviews, services offered, work quality, and market presence.

Top 5 Tagline Tips: How to Create the Brand Experience in 5 Words or Less

August 8, 2017 by Gal Borenstein

“Just do it.” “I’m Lovin’ it.” “Rethink Possible.” “The Ultimate Driving Machine.” Do these phrases sound instantly familiar? So familiar, in fact, that you immediately envision the product, you imagine the sensation, you taste the sweat and smell the Big Mac, you grip the wheel with your dream hands and stamp down on the accelerator. You experience the brand – all thanks to a few simple words. That’s the power of a great tagline.

Many people may assume that since typical taglines use just a few short, crisp words, a great tagline should be fairly easy to create. Fewer words, less trouble, right? For those of us who make a living one letter at a time, nothing could be further from the truth. Crafting an impactful tagline involves many steps, from researching the product to identifying strengths and weaknesses of the competition to learning the likes and dislikes of the target audience. Plus, tagline creation requires a comprehensive command of the subtleties of language, an ear for poetry, and an eye for design. Here are a few great tips to use when creating a tagline for a company, product or brand:

Make it Memorable: It sounds easy, but the most important factor to consider is that in addition to the brand name, the tagline captures the minimum information that consumers need to know about a product or company. The only information a consumer has access to when they are not face-to-face with the product, is what they have stored about it in their heads. Short, concise phrases that capitalize on existing idioms or conventions of speech are always great places to start.
Keep it Modern: Just like fashion or interior design, language has cycles in which certain words, grammatical conventions and patterns of speech become more popular and more commonly used. Today, with the prevalence of social media, there is a trend toward casual and conversational tones in nearly all writing outside of academia. You can see it overtly in blogs and tweets, but it’s even present in journalism and editorial work. A tagline of today should capitalize on this informal tone – the brand and the consumer can speak on the same terms.
Add Aural Appeal: Taglines love great rhymes. With clear rhythm, meter and time, good lines stay stuck in the mind. Alliteration packs a powerful punch. Plus, repetition is a really, really, really relevant tool. Lame language games aside, infusing aural appeal – or highlighting the sound, not just the meaning of the word – can be a very effective tactic in tagline creation.
Ignite the Imagination: The tagline is a conceptual piece. A tagline that relies on nebulous or conceptual language is much more likely to inspire new ideas and stimulate the imagination than one that uses declarative language to describe precise details of the brand. A good tagline should take risks, should be open to interpretation and should entice the mind, without shifting focus away from the brand, or mixing up the message. Don’t be afraid to break the rules.
Trademark It: During the ideation process, it’s important to check each tagline concept thoroughly on Google and USPTO.gov. It can be quite a disappointment (and legally tenuous) if you’ve developed fantastic messaging around a tagline someone else owns. If there’s no record of the tagline in existing patent files, the word or phrase can be trademarked – then it’s yours.

Finally, keep in mind that taglines are temporary. Each tagline should reflect the current moods and market trends. If you continue to strive to develop new tagline ideas based on these easy principles, your brand will stay relevant, captivating and profitable.

For more information on branding strategies in the B2B and B2G arenas, please give us a call at 703-385-8178, or visit our Contact Us page.

Do you have any tagline tips you’ve used in the past? How does the tagline play into your current digital marketing efforts?

Public Sector Branding Fundamentals Primer

August 4, 2017 by Gal Borenstein

Building or maintaining a strong brand should be an important short and long term revenue goal for your company. Especially in a recession. But for many federal contractors, the time, attention (and money) dedicated to this initiative fall short. The reasons for this are many and range for too much emphasis on set-aside status, to a desire to make marketing materials look and sound like other industry players. For example, many small government contractors want their marketing materials to sound like Lockheed Martin or Leidos, but of course, don’t have the marketing budgets of the big boys.

According to the American Marketing Association (AMA), a brand as a “name, term, sign, symbol or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of other sellers.”

Often beginning with a Positioning Statement, a core objective of developing a strong brand is to clearly answer the following questions:

What is unique about my organization or brand in the context of the industry as a whole?
Which of these factors are most important to my clients and prospects?
Which of these factors are most difficult for your competitors to imitate?
Which of these factors can be most easily understood by my prospects?

There are four key rules of branding. These apply to companies serving both the commercial and federal sectors:

For the brand to be effective, it has to be unique.
For the brand to make an impact and be memorable, it has to be clear and compelling.
For the brand to generate revenue, it has to foster a sense of ownership by my clients, partners, and employees.
For the brand to be credible, it must be believable.

Clients Vote Up Borenstein Group to Clutch’s Top 1000 Global Companies List; Rank Borenstein Group as one of Best B2G & B2B Branding Agencies in 2019

Tate & Tryon, Top Non-Profit Accounting Firm, Mints Gold with Best Professional Services Website in 2017 Annual International Davey Awards.

Clutch Research Names Borenstein Group, Washington DC & Baltimore’s Top Digital Agency for 2017

Public Sector Branding Fundamentals Primer

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