Archive for September, 2007
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Restaurants need menus. Whether it’s a board on the wall or something you hand out, you have to tell your customers what you are serving.
A menu should reflect the attitude of the restaurant. A tropical, breezy, colorful restaurant should have a menu that fits that same theme. A boring, text only, black and white menu […]
Posted in Graphic Design, Marketing, Menus, Restaurant | No Comments »
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Flyers are extremely versatile. You can use them for almost anything!
They could be used as a quick and cheap way to advertise a one-time event. Maybe you need to boost sales and want to offer 25% off your retail merchandise for the next 48 hours. Printing an expensive full color flyer wouldn’t be time or […]
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Brochures are a means of advertising that allows you to present your business to potential clients without you having to be there. They should outline what your business does, what your services include and portray the quality of your services.
Brochures come in various sizes, paper weights, and colors. If your company provides high cost services […]
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Postcards offer a colorful, effective and less expensive marketing alternative to mailing out marketing “packages”.
Postcards are read more often than any other form of unsolicited mail. They are easy, why not read it? Just flip it over, scan the offer and decide. Trash or keep it?
For the postcard maker, those few seconds are the most […]
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Yes, you could just print a plain text letterhead off your computer. Your printing cost would be about 5 cents per copy and you could print as little as one at a time. But what would your new client think of you? Would they think that if you cut corners on your stationery, you would […]
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
First impressions are extremely important in the business world. Sometimes your business collateral meets your potential client before you. Do you want your clients first impression to be based upon your home-made business cards and black and white flyer or upon your full color professionally designed business cards, letterhead and brochures?
A graphic designer can help […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
I’m just about at my wits end with PayPal. A while back I felt that way, I called them and was given some info that actually made me think I could do business with them still. I had been hearing horror stories about fellow designers and web developers that had basically been robbed […]
Posted in Merchant Account, Small Business, Working from home, payments | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
I came across this and thought I’d share:
http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
WARNING: It’s addictive…don’t blame me if you can’t get any work done!! LOL
Take care!
Posted in Art, Goofing off, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 7th, 2007
made business cards and sent them out to print yesterday…
Yes those are mine, I had to print new ones
Cards for my husbands business (it seems to be reprint time around here)
Existing client had to add a new attorney to their office…not a bad reason to have to reprint cards! […]
Posted in Business Cards, Graphic Design, Projects, Self Promotion, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 7th, 2007
When I can’t even find time to get to my own blog on a daily basis. I find that amazing. I’m working on posting this weeks projects and maybe if I get a moment, I’ll get all the projects that I missed up online too.
I see definite value in having a central […]
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