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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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Custom Sales Kits: WOW Your Customers and Increase Your Sales (with Video)

Posted by Don Keller

Every savvy business owner knows you have to stand out to succeed. Customized sales or marketing kits can do just that when launching new products or selling premium price products.

Sales kits are an excellent means of putting the uniqueness of your brand and company on display while showing the recipient that they are important.

But we all know it’s a big investment and the kits need to have specific results… drive sales. Basically these are direct response tools and are only successful if they get a response, a sale, or create enough interest to make the customer pick up the phone.

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Topics: Packaging Design, Sales Kits

Fantastic Packaging Designs from Catalpha [video]

Posted by Don Keller

I hope your year ahead will be as busy as our 2018. What have we been up to you ask? Well I'd like to tell you but showing you will be a lot easier.

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Topics: Catalpha, Packaging Design

5 Critical Tactics Every B2B Website Redesign Project Should Incorporate

Posted by Don Keller

While we are still in the midst of the winter season, it is not too early to think about doing some spring-marketing-cleaning. For business owners, now is the perfect opportunity to evaluate where you are right now and where you would like to be in the near future.

One of the obvious places to start is with your company’s online presence and ways to improve your current online reach.

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Topics: Marketing, Business Management, Website Design

The Role of Packaging Design in an E-Commerce World

Posted by Don Keller

In the world of digital marketing and online purchases, the importance of packaging design and aesthetics is sometimes overlooked.

The quality of the product you are selling is always important, although how it is packaged continues to play a huge role in attracting and retaining business.

While the retail experience has drastically changed in the e-commerce landscape, it is still vital to consider the overall design of your packaging design, headed for both online and brick-and-mortar distributors.

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Topics: Packaging Design, Ecommerce

8 Actionable Tips To Successfully Prepare Your Product Packaging For The U.S. Market

Posted by Don Keller

Launching your product in the States can be a daunting task.

While the market is competitive, with the right approach and a marketing strategy tailored specifically to the US mindset, there’s no reason your move to the American market can’t be a huge success. 

To make waves in the US market with your product, the packaging design you choose will be critical not just to the launch of your product but to its future success too.

Product packaging is a formidable force to ensure your product makes a place for itself on the American mall shelves and even more so, in the American home.

Check out these 8 practical tips to help you to plan and produce the best packaging design so that your product flies off the shelves in the US market. 

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Topics: Packaging Design, Business Management, Product Development

Step-by-Step Package Dieline Tutorial [with videos and downloads]

Posted by Don Keller

This guide and accompanying videos and graphics will teach you almost everything you need to know about creating dielines for packaging.

Either folding cartons and corrugate boxes.

We even created sample dielines for you to download, so you can open and view first hand how it should be built.

Sound good? Let’s get started….

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Topics: Packaging Design, Dieline

Stunning Beauty Packaging Design Secrets Revealed!

Posted by Don Keller

Walk through any department store cosmetics department, especially during the holidays and your senses will be overcome with the sights and smells of the huge range of perfume and beauty packaging designs that are before you.

Small boxes, and large ones too, some wrapped in shiny paper, exude a fair amount of luxury.

It is no surprise the beauty departments in many stores are the most well lit, to the point that the product’s packaging takes center stage to all the other products in the store and the consumer almost becomes distracted by the various choices to be had.

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Topics: Packaging Design, Beauty Packaging

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