My design business plan for next year

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This time last year I resolved to get more involved in social media. So in 2010, I opened a Twitter account, a YouTube channel and engaged in many other sharing and social activities online. This has been a great success. It brings traffic to this site, wins me more clients and is making me better [...]

My business story

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“If you are successful at school; you will be successful in life” I wasn’t a great success at school. Even though I was sent to good schools, in order to get me to work hard, I was told “if you are successful at school; you will be successful in life”. As hard as I tried [...]

Using Featured Images in WordPress

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Featured Images in posts or pages is yet another example of how WordPress is not only a brilliant blogging platform but also an adaptable CMS (Content Management System). The basic idea behind Featured Images is the ability to set a thumbnail, or any size of image, to an article so that when that article is [...]

What you need to start a graphic design business

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It pains me to think of the $3000 I spent on a Mac Performa 6400 complete with a huge monitor and in-built 28K dial-up modem in the mid-90s. The machine chugged along like an aging donkey and the information super-highway felt more like a traffic jam. I wish I was starting now with readily available [...]

Free 2011 Calendars to download in PDF, InDesign and Illustrator formats!

Download Free 2011 Calendars!

Here’s a present for my visitors and subscribers as a BIG “thank you” for all the support and encouragement I’ve received over the year! Every year I send Christmas cards to all my clients with a calendar of the next year on the back. Putting something useful like a calendar on the back of a [...]

How to create your own website – 4 essential steps

Create your own website

Google estimates there are over 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique web pages on the web and there are an estimated 7.3 million new ones added every day – but don’t let these figures overwhelm you, you found me. My website was set up with only a few dollars and a bit of common sense. [...]

Make PowerPoint and Excel documents look good with Adobe Illustrator

How to make Excel and PowerPoint documents beautiful

There are two different worlds. There is the world of business and commerce which is fast-pace, practical, utilitarian. And the other is the marketing message which needs to be simple, easily digestible and attractive to the customers. Graphic designers sit between these too worlds. Often our clients will supply documents from the world in which [...]

5 common blogging tips that aren’t true

5 common blogging tips that aren't true

Four years ago I was commuting everyday – with millions of others on London’s underground system – to some soulless office doing work that didn’t interest me. This all changed when I suddenly realised that by creating web pages with WordPress I could get clients via my website and not have to go on the [...]

Create an ePub eBook with InDesign

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The internet is awash with eBooks. It’s easy to see why – they’re fast, convenient and are a great way to consume and store reading material. They can be downloaded in seconds and many thousands can fit on a single USB stick. eBooks are also interactive, allowing you to search for text, make notes or [...]

Know Your Visitors – Know Your Customers!

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Most websites fail. Why? Because, they don’t post regular content that people will want to read. How do you know what people want to read? The answer is to get to know your website’s visitors and potential visitors. By knowing your readers, you will hopefully have some idea about your potential customers! Here are a [...]

Download the free e-books "How to Market Yourself Online" & "Starting An Online Business"

How to get clients online and advice on starting up online!

  • Creating websites
  • Setting up WordPress
  • Writing blog posts
  • Getting links
  • Driving traffic to your site
  • Using social media
  • Getting clients
  • Getting found on Google
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