‘The Daily Grind’

Is Affiliate Advertising Right for Your Business?

Friday, June 18th, 2010

The promise of guaranteed ROI sounds enticing to many small businesses – especially cash strapped start up operations. Why invest in advertising up front when you can fund your campaigns by paying out commissions only on customers and revenue you’ve received?

Unfortunately, Affiliate Advertising isn’t necessarily cheap, easy, or free to start and is best utilized by experienced, profitable businesses with proven sales systems and extremely effective advertising promotions.

Here are a few questions to review to find out if affiliate advertising might work for your business:

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Free Design? Know Your Creative Rights.

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Anyone can go online and find dozens of offers for free design services for logos, business cards, postcards, flyers, websites, and just about any other advertising presentation a business might need.

So why would you ever pay for design services?

There’s usually a pretty big catch to these special deals. (more…)

Getting Started with a New Website

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

We work with a lot of new businesses who need to start up a brand new website but don’t know where to begin.

Before you can set up a new website design, you’ll need to register a domain name and set up a hosting account.

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Alpenglow Lighting Design Logo Transformation

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Just this last week, I got one of the coolest gifts ever for my birthday – the NEW Wacom Intuos4 Professional Graphic Tablet. I really hadn’t had a chance, until this week, to sit down and really get a feel for what it can do. Luckily, I just got a new logo project for a friend of mine Alpenglow Lighting Design and got the opportunity to show off my skills.

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