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Design Details: August 2009
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My thoughts about design and the details of running a small business. Monday, August 24, 2009. A fellow designer emailed me the other day. She had a client who wanted her to design a brochure for him. For payment, he would advertise her business. Was this a fair trade? I gave the best advice I could. Mainly, to contact her accountant and lawyer to make sure she arranges the trade properly. Secondly, to make sure the trade was even - dollar for dollar. What do you think? Because the logo is so simple and ...
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Design Details: April 2011
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My thoughts about design and the details of running a small business. Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Referrals from unlikely places. Every business needs referrals. They often come from satisfied customers raving to a colleague or friend about your service or product. The colleague may have a similar problem and they give you a call. It's a great way to get new business. Recently, I received a referral. It wasn't from a colleague. It wasn't from a friend. It was from my daughter. Wow! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Design Details: Make Appointments with Yourself to Get More Done
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My thoughts about design and the details of running a small business. Monday, August 30, 2010. Make Appointments with Yourself to Get More Done. In late May, I joined a Mastermind group with a few other designers. If you are unfamiliar, a Mastermind is a group of like-minded individuals that help each other move forward by holding each other accountable. The Mastermind itself is the invisible member that is created when the group brainstorms together - it is greater than the sum of it's parts. Perhaps I ...
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Design Details: March 2009
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My thoughts about design and the details of running a small business. Thursday, March 19, 2009. Learning Marketing With My Kids. A few days ago, I was reading one of my favorite weekly eNewsletters, Wednesday Wisdom from Women TIES (www.womenties.com). The owner, Tracy Higginbotham, wrote about being introduced to You Tube by her sons. What she never anticipated was the effect that introduction would have on her business or how soon it would happen. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Design Details: Preventative Website Testing
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My thoughts about design and the details of running a small business. Thursday, September 23, 2010. Back in my days as a programmer, our hardware techs used to use schedules for preventative maintenance on the computers. Each morning they would print out that day's list and proceed to test everything on it. As a programmer, we had similar routines that were performed regularly as a preventative measure. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure! Check all links. You certainly don't want a visit...
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Design Details: December 2009
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My thoughts about design and the details of running a small business. Thursday, December 17, 2009. Tradition versus Designer Christmas Tree. Last night, I was sitting with the other moms in the warming room at the barn. Our daughters were either finishing or preparing for a horseback riding lesson. The tree had bows all over it. No ornaments. And the bows were blue! Yes, blue. I couldn’t get over it. It was so different than any tree I had ever seen. And yet … it was pretty. I...You may also wonder how I...
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Design Details: Bartering Revisited
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My thoughts about design and the details of running a small business. Monday, June 14, 2010. Last year, I wrote a post about bartering ( see Bartering Services, 8/24/09. At the time, I wondered if bartering was a viable option for my own business. As I write this, I am negotiating just such an agreement with a client. We are, luckily, in a position to provide each other with services that our businesses need. Set up properly, this will be a win for both of us. How could bartering benefit your business?
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Design Details: May 2010
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My thoughts about design and the details of running a small business. Friday, May 21, 2010. Getting the Most Out of Your Business Card. Just the other day I had the opportunity to look at a large stack of business cards. They had been collected as entries for drawings at two events. What people listed on their business cards varied greatly. Some had the absolute bare minimum such that I was unsure what they even did. Others used the back to list services or a host of social media urls. Pen and Brush Comm...
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Design Details: September 2010
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My thoughts about design and the details of running a small business. Thursday, September 23, 2010. Back in my days as a programmer, our hardware techs used to use schedules for preventative maintenance on the computers. Each morning they would print out that day's list and proceed to test everything on it. As a programmer, we had similar routines that were performed regularly as a preventative measure. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure! Check all links. You certainly don't want a visit...
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Design Details: June 2010
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My thoughts about design and the details of running a small business. Monday, June 14, 2010. Last year, I wrote a post about bartering ( see Bartering Services, 8/24/09. At the time, I wondered if bartering was a viable option for my own business. As I write this, I am negotiating just such an agreement with a client. We are, luckily, in a position to provide each other with services that our businesses need. Set up properly, this will be a win for both of us. How could bartering benefit your business?
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