Community Commerce Convention – Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce

Are you a business owner or looking into getting into business? or do you want to improve your business with great tax advice? Attend this FREE convention! Here are the details: Event Details: When: June 25th, 2009, 8:00am – 4:30pm Where: Marriott of Greenville, 1 Parkway East Price of Admission: Community Commerce Convention = FREE [...]

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Alpha Fire and Safety Logo Design

I just finished up the logo design for Alpha Fire and Safety this week. We explored many different areas for the logo with the goal to set themselves apart from the other Fire and Safety equipment companies in the Greenville SC area and, more personally for them, add symbolism to their faith. We went away [...]

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12 Ways to get higher in Google

BEFORE YOU READ THEM, HERE ARE SOME KEY TERMS YOU SHOULD KNOW Targeted/Strategic keywords-The keywords you want your customer search to find your company. An example is “web design greenville sc” or “restaurants greer sc” Content-What’s on your page-everything from images to text. Sitemap-Includes all the pages you want indexed in search engines. Usually written [...]

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Photo Graphics is now Design Smart

Why the change? I recently decided to become an LLC and thought it was the perfect time to shed my old name for a new more focused name. Design Smart is more than a name but a personal motto to, well…design smart. It is extremely important motto to remember, because I’m dealing with small businesses [...]

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Bluestone Cottages Condos Website Design

The Craftsman styling and colors of this community were the inspiration for the Bluestone Cottages Condo Community website design. Bluestone Cottages Condo Community is a maintenence free community in Washougal, Washington. Visit the live website at www.washougalcondos.com

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Cool Wicking PJs Logo Design

This logo design project had me getting in touch with my feminine side! After discussing the goals of the company with owner, Laura Wheelock, we decided the Cool Wicking PJ’s logo design needed to appeal to her main target market, women suffering from night sweats, a common occurrence during menopause. We wanted to communicate comfort, [...]

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GAP Baseball Ad Design for the Greenville News

GAP Baseball League needs to attract ball players above the age of 28 for his for-fun Great American Pastime Baseball League.  GAPBL decided to have an advertisement designed to be printed in the Greenville News. The ad is meant to catch the eye and draw people to call GAP Baseball or visit their website. GAP [...]

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Bluestone Cottages Community Billboard Ad Design

Rosewood Communities needed a billboard designed to promote their maintenance-free community Bluestone Cottages in Greer, SC. The design stays consistent with the other marketing materials for Bluestone Cottages. The main message is that Bluestone Cottages isn’t your ordinary maintenance-free community, but one with style, quality and a good location. The billboard will be strategically placed [...]

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What’s all the fuss about Blogs? (a blog about blogs)

Many businesses are starting blogs nowadays and you may be looking into creating a blog for your business. I am writing this blog entry, to give you some advantages and disadvantages of blogs so you can make the right decision on whether to start a blog or not. I’ll also give you advice on how [...]

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Heart of Texas Real Estate Logo Design

Kimberly Fowler of Heart of Texas Real Estate Group wanted a logo that set her real estate company apart from all the other logos that featured the state of texas and a heart in various forms. After talking with her, we decided including the elements of the horse and the state flag of texas. I [...]

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