Emily Brackett is a Success Story!
I’m very proud tell you that I’ve been featured as a “Success Story” in the current edition of The Maine Switch. If you are local to Portland you may pick up a paper around the downtown area or at Hannafords. Or, read the article online. If you don’t know me well, this is a much better write-up of my background and experience than on my own bio page. Writer Belinda […]
Read More...5 Tips for More Readable RSS Feeds: Good Typography & Design
If you write a blog or have other content that people subscribe to in an RSS feed, read these 5 tips to make your feed more readable. Before the tips, ask yourself whether you want to have the entire post available in the feed, or if it will be truncated. If it’s truncated, readers are forced to click to your site to finish reading. Reasons to truncate: To increase revenues […]
Read More...The Unknown Unknowns of DIY Design
Small business owners and entrepreneurs have many options for skipping the high-priced graphic designer and going the DIY route. Instead of hiring a high-quality web designer, just buy a template. Instead of working with a professional graphic designer, design your own business card. But when you work this way, you are limited by your skills and also the unknowns that you haven’t even considered. Just the other day I had […]
Read More...What Should Your Logo Do For You?
Last week I was at an in-person networking event of the LinkedIn Maine Entrepreneurs group. I met someone who had recently started their own company and he told me that he gave up on trying to get a logo designed and decided to move ahead without a logo. I’m not going to mention names or go into the details of his business, as it’s not important for this story, but […]
Read More...Design for Your Business Presentations
Seth Godin has a great piece about making charts that work over at his blog. Godin’s books, blogs and presentations are widely read and viewed and I’m excited whenever a thinker like this points out the importance of design in making a business presentation. He has this quote, (although I don’t know where he found the stats!) that really summed up the problem of most business presentations. 92% of all […]
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