Hermes Creative Awards Select Branding4newbies.com As 2008 Gold Winner In Blog Category

July 10, 2008 - PRLog -- Branding4Newbies.com (http://branding4newbies.com), a branding and marketing advice blog for small businesses, has been honored with a 2008 Hermes Creative Award. Branding4newbies.com was honored with the Gold Award for Best Blog. The Hermes Creative Awards is an international awards competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional and emerging media. Hermes Creative Awards recognizes outstanding work in the industry while promoting the philanthropic nature of marketing and communication professionals. Branding4newbies is also a consulting firm that provides marketing, communications, branding and web strategy services to small and emerging businesses.

Branding4Newbies.com is the brain child of two award winning marketing and branding professionals, Shakira Brown and Cathlyn Driscoll. Cathlyn is a web and print designer with a background in television production and photography. Cathlyn is a search engine optimization specialist and the owner of SearchEngineFriend.com (http://www.searchenginefriend.com), which provides SEO for universities and corporations. With a creative and varied background, Cathlyn has experience in, advertising/web design, print publishing and has been a photographer/writer for a regional newspaper. She is the former webmaster and SEO strategist for a $100 million dollar firm which continually ranked in the top pages of Google, Yahoo! and Live (MSN).

Shakira is an award-winning public relations, corporate communications and marketing professional with experience leading an array of communications strategies for various entities. In her nearly 15 years of experience in radio, print, television journalism and public relations, Shakira has worked with high profile news broadcasters, entertainers, moguls, financial experts, small business owners and c-suite level executives in various industries. Shakira has also produced and worked on programming for MTV Networks, CBS News, MSNBC News, NBC News and ABC Networks and stations in New York and Boston. She also contributes to her blog frugal living Retail Secrets for Savvy Consumers, (http://retailsecrets.blogspot.com).

There were over 4,000 entries and winners were selected from 136 categories in seven forms of media and communication efforts- advertising, publications, marketing/branding, integrated marketing, public relations/communications, electronic media and pro bono. Entries came from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers. Hermes Creative Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. AMCP judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. A complete list of Platinum and Gold Winners can be found on the Hermes Creative Awards website at www.hermesawards.com.

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About Branding4newbies
Branding4newbies (http://branding4newbies.com) provides marketing, communications, branding and web strategy consulting services to small and emerging businesses. Branding4newbies.com is an award-winning marketing and advice blog for entrepreneurs. Our team of professionals provide quality services at competitive prices to help support the advancement of small businesses.Our services include, but are not limited to: web strategy& development, graphic design, public relations, marketing, collateral material development, advertising, search engine optimization and business strategy , among others.