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 (includes all 5 break-out sessions [...]
Filed under: Logo Design, Small Business Marketing on June 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
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 in XML language.
Index-In [...]
Filed under: Graphic Design Articles, Small Business Marketing, Website Design on April 1st, 2009 | No Comments »
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 Baseball [...]
Filed under: Print Design, Small Business Marketing on March 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
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 on [...]
Filed under: Print Design, Small Business Marketing on March 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Small Business Marketing, Website Design on February 16th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
THE PROBLEM PHOTO:
ALL of us have seen this photo that is low resolution, highly compressed under exposed with the house on the hill looking like it is a pyramid because the photo was taken with the wrong settings and at a bad angle! I am here to give you some tips on creating photos that [...]
Filed under: Graphic Design Articles, Photography, Small Business Marketing on January 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Take a page from large retailers and offer your customers gift certificates! Gift Certificates work great around the holidays for those hard to buy people and you can take advantage of it. The best part is any business can create them using Microsoft Publisher or any word processor! Microsoft has quite a few templates on [...]
Filed under: Graphic Design Articles, Print Design, Small Business Marketing on December 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
Recently I was commissioned to create the Christmas card design for the South Carolina Policy Council. They needed a Christmas card that was festive and classy. I created a somewhat nostalgic look with the textures and borders and kept the colors and font festive. The design needed a .125 inch white space border because the [...]
Filed under: Postcard Design, Print Design, Small Business Marketing on December 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my great clients, Cabinets and Tops needed an advertisement for the Greenville News. They designed a kitchen for an upscale builder in Tuscany Falls in Greenville, SC. I had the pleasure of photographing this beautiful kitchen. For the ad layout, I wanted to create an eye catching design to match the dramatic photography. [...]
Filed under: Print Design, Small Business Marketing on November 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
With businesses having to shrink their budget for any sort of advertising, one of the items that might not make the cut is the local chamber of commerce membership. Before you throw the membership form in the trash, lets analyze the benefits.
What is the fee for joining the chamber of commerce?
Usually a range of $150-over [...]
Filed under: Non-design Personal, Small Business Marketing on November 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
