Let’s face it, as much as some people want to admit it… the classic art form of writing a letter is vanishing. Those days of writing a letter to a loved one or friend are slowly being replaced with text messages, IMS and emails. So what does that mean? It means the common use of putting an address label on an envelope is becoming less and less useful. If you’re anything like my father, you refuse to do any sort of online banking or payments, so you still slip a check into an envelope and slap an address label on to save you a few seconds, and you see a lot of holiday address labels around Christmas but besides that, what do you even use an address label for these days?
4 Tips for Successful Mobile Email Marketing Campaigns
Maybe we’re jumping the gun here a little bit by assuming you’re already marketing to your customers via email, but that’s okay. We’ll be sure to double back and present tips and tricks (do’s and don’ts) regarding general email marketing messages at a later date. Right now, we want to focus on a growing hot topic – email marketing and the mobile phone.
Shoot Your Own Christmas Card Portrait – The Wrap-Up!
We’re a few days from Thanksgiving which usually marks the point when trees, greens and other Christmas festiveness starts to get broken out and the whole family takes time to be together. It’s also when winter outfits have secured a space in the front of the closet and you start feeling like it wouldn’t be so early that people would think you were weird for sending Christmas Cards. That also makes it the perfect time to wrap up the Shoot Your Own Christmas Card Portrait series!
8 Simple Ways to Stay Productive at Work
When you’re sitting at your desk in the office (or at your cool in-home office), what day do you find yourself struggling to be productive? What time of the day do you find yourself getting the most distracted, resulting in a plummet in your productivity level?
Looking for Inspiration? Climb Out of Your Familiar Rut
It happens to the best of us. We start out in our adult lives and careers wide-eyed, excited and eager to take in as much as we can; we’re hungry to try new things, we tackle challenges of all sorts and do what we can to forge ahead and grow in whatever it is we do. And grow we do. Along the way, as we grow, we refine our expectations and we focus – often leading to some level of success that comes pre-packaged with some level of comfort. We settle in, we settle down and before we know it…
10 Ways to Improve the Quality and Visibility of Your Linkedin Profile
When partners, co-workers or potential employers search for your name, what social profile would you prefer them to see? If you’re a small business owner or white-collar professional; chances are you’d prefer them to see your Linkedin profile. Why? Because it’s real! You can’t fake a good Linkedin profile.
6 Proofreading Tips
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.” – Oscar Wilde
Remember back when you were in high school and your teachers always stressed the importance of proofreading your work, because spelling and grammar counted…
You Are Cordially Invited…to Scan This QR Code
By now just about everyone has seen those funky little white squares with random patterns of black speckles and dots. They’re on web sites, on coupons, in ads and on packages. They’re called quick response, or QR, codes…
Understanding QR Codes for Your Business’ Sake
A QR (Quick Response) code, when scanned with a cell phone camera, can serve as an informational marketing tool. The code itself can contain information like a URL, a map to your storefront, a YouTube video or a Tweet. Some scanning applications can even trigger actions on the phone like automatically surfing to a website (www.123print.com), sending SMS (text) messages, or drafting an e-mail…
5 Tips for Designing a Professional Business Card!
Include only necessary information. Your business card should be a quick message telling others what you do, and where they can contact you to get more information…