Blog & Business

  • Upselling: How to Touch Base with Clients without Sounding Desperate

    Running your own business is awesome. And tough. Just when you’re celebrating that a huge client project is finally finished, you’re also realizing that you’ve got nothing else on the docket and you begin to wonder how you’re going to pay next month’s bills. In your panic, you start emailing friends or old clients hoping…

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  • Build Your Blog: Creating Unique Content

    I try to check in with my web clients a few months after I’ve completed their website. I’m always excited to browse their posts and pages and see what they’ve put together and when I get them on the phone to tell them congrats and how excited I am about what they’re doing, the conversation…

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  • Picking the Perfect Theme for Your WordPress Blog or Website

      I’ve spent my fair share of time searching for the perfect theme for a WordPress site. I’m pretty sure that there isn’t one. But, there are quite a few “perfect” options for every type of site out there. So many of my clients get bogged down in search for their “favorite” or “perfect” theme.…

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  • How to Create a WordPress Website & Blog in 3 Easy Steps

    You’ve got a genius idea. The world should know. You’ve been thinking about starting something online but wondering if there’s a place for you and if you can put together something that will attract attention, right? Well… it’s time. Whether you’re an aspiring writer, artist, creative, or small business owner; the steps to setting up…

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  • 7 Questions That Will Make You Your Client’s Hero: How to Be a Project Manager & Designer Part 2

      As a graphic designer you’re going to spend a lot of time collaborating with clients on current projects and helping them through the design and production process. Often when I work with small business clients, I’m their first experience working with a graphic designer and marketer. They love their company, they want to grow…

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  • 7 Questions that Will Make You Your Client’s Hero: How to Be a Project Manager & Designer, Part 1

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      As a graphic designer you’re going to spend a lot of time collaborating with clients on current projects and helping them through the design and production process. Often when I work with small business clients, I’m their first experience working with a graphic designer and marketer. They love their company, they want to grow…

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  • Top 7 Free Plugins for Your WordPress Blog

    Working with brand new bloggers or small business owners often means tight budgets and making every dollar do it’s job and then some. I get that starting a business or blog is hard and it sure is nice when someone offers a little free advice, right? Almost every new web design client I have seems…

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  • How to Become An Expert At Pretty Much Anything: 100 Days of Illustrator

    I hate ruts. They’re terrible things. When I first started designing I felt like I had my hands tied. I knew how to handle a few of the tools in Illustrator, but I felt completely incompetent. I was in a rut. I had enough skill to know I was lacking, but I didn’t have a…

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