Re-branding “Procrastination” to IDEA FERMENTATION – Design Coach on Call
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Design Coach on Call: Learning to say no…
Needtomeet.com.
Find a time to meet without the hassle
See everyone’s availability at a glance. No more emailing back and forth or playing phone tag.
Organize a recurring meeting
Use Needtomeet’s simple interface to find a regular time for your group to meet.
Schedule an event for you group
A simple no-fuss way to find a time for your event. Nothing to download, no registration, and best of all, it’s free!
Find a time to meet without the hassle
See everyone’s availability at a glance. No more emailing back and forth or playing phone tag.
Organize a recurring meeting
Use Needtomeet’s simple interface to find a regular time for your group to meet.
Schedule an event for you group
A simple no-fuss way to find a time for your event. Nothing to download, no registration, and best of all, it’s free!
5 Ways to Get More Referrals
free quality fonts that are at myfonts.com
30 Free Web 2.0 Fonts You’ll Love
http://www.youthedesigner.com/2010/04/06/free-web-2-0-fonts/
Finding that perfect font can be a real nightmare! Especially, if you’re on a budget and can’t pay for expensive premium fonts. At You The Designer, we want to enable designers to create art and not spend hours searching for resources online. That’s why we put together 30 Awesome & Free Web 2.0 Fonts to help you out.
http://prezi.com/ – cool online zoomable presentation tool
http://prezi.com/ – cool online zoomable presentation tool
thank Rand for telling me about it
good selection of “Business of Design” articles
from linked in on a discussion about how to market your design firm
New Business
Hi Everyone,
I’d like to know what you are all doing to generate new business. Let’s discuss!
-Louanne
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Hello Louanne,
Yep, this is always tricky, huh?! i have recently bought some Marketing/ Communication Mgr. lists, and i have the digital copy of artists market, but still, by far, the ol’ tried and true idea of getting your existing clients to do more, or educating them that you offer more than just brochure or web design, is the fastest track. Easier to up sell (not a word i like, but you get the idea) existing Clients than to acquire new ones. And, of course, pleased Clients hopefully refer your design services to other potential Clients, their friends and colleagues. I also do a monthly email blast (please see this link: <
http://misenheimer.com/eblast-list.html >) to stay in touch, easy to unsubscribe from so that it’s not a pain to them. Thinking about doing a “snail mail” postcard to prospects too.
What about you? What are you doing or considering? Thanks!
David Baker’s Excellent ADVICE EXCLUSIVELY FOR SMALL MARKETING FIRMS
http://www.recourses.com/2010g
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Most Popular Position Papers |
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I was surprised to find out recently that we’re on track for 50,000 yearly PDF downloads of our position papers. There are 51 different position papers on the site, all free, and I thought it might interest you to know which ones are the most popular.
In descending order, here they are, along with a direct link should you like to download them immediately:
Needless to say, the least popular ones covered financial management issues. |
Free For All: 2,010 Photoshop Brushes Pariah Burke has gathered more than two thousand free Photoshop brushes, all of which are ready for CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5.
the next iPhone leaked! (June 2010 release)
How to Create a Screencast Like a Pro with These 6 Online Tools by Jessica Cam Wong
15-excellent-free-online-magazines-for-designers-part-1
Adobe Creative Suite 5: Should you upgrade?
The Obama To-Do List keeps track of where we’ve been, and where we are going.
The Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, incl. PSD sources) – free commercial use too
By Vitaly Friedman, April 15th, 2010
There are thousands of free icon sets out there, and every other day we see new sets being released by the design community. In fact, Smashing Magazine has been releasing icon sets for years now, too. But today’s release is particularly important. Over the last 1.5 years, Oliver Twardowski was designing and preparing an “ultimate web designer’s icon set” exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Today we release the third, final version of the set, an extensive pack with over 750 free icons (48×48px) for designers and Web developers. The .PSD-sources are available for free download as well.
The set consists of web application icons, user interface icons, e-commerce icons, general use icons, desktop icons, blog icons, smiley icons, button icons, keyboard icons, national flags icons, popular online services icons and many others.
April Free Font of the Month: Souvenir Gothic™ Regular
humblepied.com – One inspiring creative sharing one piece of advice, all over video chat
Chuck Green’s ever handy monthly design links
esp. this article:
The future of graphic design is in the provision of access