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What Small Businesses Can Learn From Century Old Companies

January 24, 2012

In our modern times of “dot coms” and companies that come and go, it’s often easy to overlook businesses who have a long track record and have yet to go belly up in the uncertain economy. While a lot goes into the success of a company, let alone one that’s been around for over a...
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Edison vs Tesla: You Can’t Argue With Results

January 13, 2012

On my morning rounds I noticed this item, at The Atlantic, called Tesla’s Letterhead Is So Much Better Than Edison’s and I can’t help but ask just what “better” means?         No related posts. Read the full post
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Vintage Cameras

January 11, 2012

Ever since I got a hold of my mom’s Brownie camera when I was about 5 I’ve been fascinated with old cameras. When I was a teenager I used to scour the thrift stores in search interesting looking old pieces. I didn’t care if they worked or not (although I did come across a...
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Graphic Design From Ages Past

January 8, 2012

Depending on how one defines it, some would consider the cave paintings in Lascaux, France or the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt could be considered graphic design. That poses a bit of a conundrum when it comes to exploring the, “history of graphic design” though! There is also a lot of cross over between design and art, even...
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Graphic design from ages past

January 8, 2012

Depending on how one defines it, some would consider the cave paintings in Lascaux, France or the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt could be considered graphic design. That poses a bit of a conundrum when it comes to exploring the, “history of graphic design” though! There is also a lot of cross over between design and art, even...
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Scattershot Political Ads – Are Congressional Candidates Wasting Money?

December 22, 2011

An important election year is on the way, and before long we’ll probably all be wanting to see it over and done with. Needless to say, we’ll be seeing quite a lot of political ads, and I have a feeling the move to online ads will accelerate. There’s no doubt that online ads are...
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Annoying Marketing and Advertising Tactics on the Web

November 30, 2011

There have always been annoying marketing tactics out there but recently I’ve come across a few that just pushed right past annoying and went straight to that angry place where a line has been crossed and not only would I never buy whatever product or service that’s being pushed but I also want to...
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Take Control of Your Web Presence: You DO Have One

November 20, 2011

I’m always surprised to hear businesspeople and professionals say “I don’t need a web presence”. This attitude is short sighted for a lot of reasons, but its biggest problem may lie in one simple fact. Whether they know it or not they already have a web presence. All businesses do. Related posts: A question your business...
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Is any marketing good marketing?

October 26, 2011

There are those who subscribe to the notion that any publicity is good publicity, but when it comes to marketing I certainly don’t feel those same rules apply. Related posts: Putting Your Worst Foot Forward: Why No Website Is Better than a Bad Website Geek Marketing at the San Diego Comic Con Read the full post
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Twitter Round Up – Sept 2011

October 5, 2011

Hi folks! It’s been awhile since we’ve done a round up on what we’ve found on Twitter as we’ve been busy with work and promotions. So below is really the culmination of the last couple months of things we found on Twitter. There’s some particularly good items on here this time around including why Creative...
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