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Don Keller

Don Keller grew up in the rural small town of Emporium, PA Always with with an interest in Art and drawing, Don made his mark even as early as elementary school. Music was also a part of Don's life playing in concert, marching and jazz band through school Don studied commercial art and was introduced to the city life while graduating from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1979.. Don moved to Maryland and found employment within a recruitment agency design department and then 2 other Baltimore Ad Agencies before joining creative forces with his wife and business partner, Karen Kerski. Co-owner of Catalpha Advertising & Design 35 years of experience within Catalpha. Serving as Creative Designer, Chief Sales Officer, Production Manager & Account Director Lead contact for multiple accounts including Reckitt, Pentair & Johns Hopkins. Don has worked on too many projects to count and they have ranged from print, to packaging, point of purchase, as well as radio, TV/video and websites.
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What You Can Do to Increase Your Brand Identity

Posted by Don Keller

Branding your company through product packaging is the easiest way to get your company noticed by consumers. A brand is a name, design, or feature that differentiates one company's product from another, and approximately 30% of the world's 100 most valuable brands were developed before 1900. The benefits of having an established brand are undeniable: having a strong corporate branding image can even boost your stock value between 5% and 7%! But what do you do if your company is new, and you don't have a 100 year old brand established?

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Topics: Branding

Automate Your Marketing!

Posted by Don Keller

How automated follow up emails nurture your leads to produce more clients

Lead generation is the life-blood of any business, but you know better than anyone else that not every lead is worth chasing. In fact, most of them are not ready to be a paying customer right away. That's why you need to qualify your leads before you start pitching the potential clients.

How to Increase Lead Generation

According to a study by Ascend2, rather than concentrating on the volume of the leads, companies are shifting towards focusing on the quality of their leads.

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Topics: Inbound Marketing

Top 10 Packaging Design Blogs - Need inspiration? Look here! (Oct '24 Update)

Posted by Don Keller

Updated October, 2024

It’s time we updated this post again! We’ve checked our list again and confirmed these are our favorite packaging design blog sites that you can use to get your creative juices flowing.  They’re our favorite sources for inspiration, industry info and design trends.

As designers ourselves, we know from time to time you just need some extra inspiration.  Well look no further - you found it! Here they are - 10 packaging design blogs full of samples and information on the best that’s out there.  You could spend days looking at everything here, but we’re sure you won’t need that long before your ‘wheels’ start turning and you get started on that game changing packaging design.  

Whether you’re starting with a brand new product package or refreshing existing designs, these 10 packaging design blogs (plus a few extra) can help make your package design smash through the shelf clutter and become a Stand Out!

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Topics: Packaging Design, Design

3 Ways To Attract More Customers with Effective Packaging Design

Posted by Don Keller

Although ecommerce is quickly becoming the norm, product packaging and product packaging design still matter.

Whether consumers receive items via the Internet and ultimately the mail or in a brick-and-mortar store, creative packaging design can do wonders for your business.

An eye-catching label or a useful and clever case can help you create an impression that customers are unlikely to forget.

Here are a few ways to master packaging design.

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Topics: Packaging Design

The 3 Things Custom Product Packaging Should Do to Build Your Brand

Posted by Don Keller

Some purposes of custom product packaging are fairly straightforward. Obviously, you need your product to stand out when compared to all the others on the shelf beside it, giving it a recognizable face, and custom packaging design is the best way to do that. You also need the packaging to give potential buyers all the necessary information. But in order to move from being purely functional to being a strong marketing tool, custom product packaging should do a bit more, as well.

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Topics: Packaging Design

Blatant Horn Tooting! Catalpha POP/Point of Purchase Makes It Nationwide!

Posted by Don Keller

Mamma always said....'Git your a$$ out of the house, you're driving me crazy!' - Well she said that too but what I meant to repeat from her was... 'Better blow your own horn.  No one else is gonna do it for you!'  

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Catalpha’s Work Hits National TV

Posted by Don Keller

Coopersburg Sports is a family owned company that makes sports novelties. On November 18, 2014, CNBC’s show “The Profit” Coopersburg Sports was featured. The profit is a show about an investor, Marcus Lemonis, who helps invest in businesses in order to help them grow and succeed, that is, if he thinks it is worth it.

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Topics: Branding, Packaging Design

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