“The trick in life is to decide what’s your major aim. … Once that’s settled, you can get on with the happy, orderly process of achieving it.”
-Stanley Goldstein
Our vision is to give owners of very small businesses and self-employed professionals like accountants, lawyers and architects cutting-edge identity design and marketing support via a supremely simple [...]
Tags: 37signals, business plan, Business Skills, imagination, Jason Fried, vision
SearchEngineWatch.com is great source of information on online and search engine marketing. An article by Mark Jackson from 2009 makes three points on having a successful Web presence that should be repeated.
Most companies worry about getting into the top three positions of Google search results related to their product or service. Most don’t worry about [...]
Tags: Branding, search engine optimization, SEO, usability, Web Design
Let me count the ways: black and white business cards are simple, elegant, minimal, beautiful, bold, classic, handsome, etc., etc.
Here and here are some galleries of minimal business cards. I can’t argue with the author on one post who says:
Why go too crazy when you can keep it simple and elegant with black & white. [...]
Tags: black and white, Business Cards, minimal
Here are two things that that caught my eye today and are rather inspiring in their own right.
Tags: LogoDesignLove, Rumors
I recently saw an article by the owner of a company that sells Website design and marketing services to accountants that offered some sound advice for small business owners and self-employed professionals.
For instance, the article argues that small business Websites should be friendly:
Rather than trying to dazzle the visitor with slick images and stock [...]
Wired magazine ran an article not too long ago in its printed and online editions entitled: “Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess.” The story outlined all of the problems with the visual design—and what Web designers like to call “usability”—of the hugely popular classified ads site. Wired notes that in spite of a design that [...]
Tags: Design, Small Business, Web Design
As designers, we are generally not known for our business acumen. Generally, we’d rather be designing someone else’s project than figuring out how to make more money for ourselves.
Here is a fascinating interview via Mixergy.com with a bootstrapping design entrepreneur who built WooThemes into a $2+ million annual business. WooThemes, is a blog template, or [...]
This has got to be my favorite business card design of all time. It’s the work of the talented Spanish designer Sergio del Puerto, who runs the Madrid-based design and art direction studio called Serial Cut.
The card’s design demonstrates some important aspects of good communications, corporate identity and marketing design:
It’s humorous without being silly. Humor [...]
Tags: Business Cards, Studios
I noticed this recent blog entry on a website geared toward graphic designers that—in addition to an impressive gallery of images of business card designs that use traditional but more advanced printing techniques—brushes upon some important points.
The first is that it is pretty hard to stand out from the crowd these days as a result [...]
Tags: Branding, Business Cards, Design, Marketing, Printing techniques
No one but no one talks about business cards or business card design these and certainly no one talks about business card etiquette on the web. So when we found this blog article entitled Business Card Elegance And Etiquette by Search Marketer Max Kalehoff we took note.
In a digital world comprised of social media, smart [...]
Tags: Business Card, Design, Printing