The least expensive way to make a lasting first impression

The least expensive way to make a lasting first impression

A lot of businesses rely heavily on online resources to grow their business these days, and rarely have printed pieces. I’m all for digital, but there is one tangible piece I still recommend that every business owner has, and that’s a business card. 1 An Immediate Vote of Credibility  A well-designed business card provides an […]

How to follow up with potential customers.

How to follow up with potential customers and why you might be putting it off.

Have you ever lost opportunities, or even money because you’ve taken too long to follow up with a client? It doesn’t have to be this way, read this article for some helpful tips.

Make 2019 the year that you do the work you were made to do.

2019 welcomes you. You may grow tired of the annual litany of New Year’s resolutions, and the “New Year, New You” posts, but if you pause and look beyond that, I think you can instead appreciate the annual reminder for awareness. A space where you can refocus, re energize, and renew for the year that […]

New year, same old me.

Are you still going strong on your New Year’s resolutions? We’re only 22 days in and I bet a few of you have gotten a little off track, or even given up. I’m not singling you out, this stuff is hard! According to U.S. News, approximately 80% of resolutions fail by the second week of February. […]

Space to Fail

If you’re anything like me, sometimes it can be hard to deal with failure. Whether it’s work, personal, or in a relationship, I take my failures particularly hard. And when the failure results as the consequence of my own actions, I can beat myself up about it relentlessly. How could I have been so stupid? […]

Just Keep Going

My last blog post was about starting, but sometimes we need motivation to just keep going too. I didn’t think I’d need motivation this early on in the game, but man, life can throw you some fun obstacles when you aren’t asking for them. My first one was two weeks ago. I was actually making time to write and […]

Just Start

Writing in a journal

When I first started pulling everything together to write this blog I had so many awesome ideas of what I wanted to include: an amazing homepage, blogs of all different topics, my design work, maybe some hand lettering, don’t forget instagram photos, a twitter, maybe cool design templates…ALL OF THE THINGS! I spent several nights locking down a site […]