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The Genius of Social Media Networking. Finally, No More Lies. 2008-08-28 05:49:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comI am a strong supporter of design companies that stand by their names and have a strong sense of value and integrity. I know it sounds like the beginnings of a speech for the Small Business Owners of America. But seriously, I've been at the other end of a well spoken and polished salesman backed by a less than stellar Read more:Social
, Finally
, Social Media
Is The Social Media The New Hiding Place For Recruiters? 2008-08-26 06:35:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com
Ok I admit it; I'm kind of a social media junkie. You know you listen to people talk about being addicted to Twitter, Facebook, and the likes but its only when you really get into it and fully utilize these resources correctly that you realize how great a networking tool these websites really are.
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, Place
What's The Point Of Getting 10,000 New Visitors To Your Website When Your Conversion Rate Sucks! 2008-08-25 08:48:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comWe are so pleased when we see numbers like 5,000, 10,000 visitors per month to our websites, and for others even more. But the real question is how many of those visitors are turning into customers. Or if you own a blog or website where advertising and maybe affiliate programs is part of your income stream; are yo Read more:Visitors
, Conversion
Social Media Tips For Your Design Business From A Wine Expert. 2008-08-22 07:11:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comI talk about business marketing a lot for one reason only - I love it. Finding ways to market and grow my design business comes second only to my wife, seriously. I started following Gary Vaynerchuk after my wife showed me his website winelibrary.com, and was so blown away at how wonderfully creative he was Read more:Social
, Social Media
, Business
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How To Launch A New Website To Maximize Your Site Visitors? 2008-08-19 03:04:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comWhat does it mean to maximize your site visitors? Well... the idea is to squeeze out as many visitors as ‘legally' possible out of the search engines, the pay per click campaigns, your banner ads, your email blasts, word of mouth, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn contacts, the blogosphere, PR Newswire... I think you get t Read more:Launch
, Visitors
, Maximize
Learning How to Blog From A YOUTUBE Competitor! 2008-08-18 03:28:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comIs The "U" Missing From Your Company's Blog ?
Not the letter "U" but "You" the noun, the individual. A lot of company blogs are boring. There written by the marketing guy that's been writing press releases for 30 years and now has to transition to the" go to" guy for their blogs. When I read com Read more:Learning
Is Blogging the New Resume? (My Shortest Post Ever) 2008-08-15 09:47:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com
Now, I can start my weekend. Have a great weekend people.
Calvin, Cheers.
Other Tags that may interest you: Read more:Blogging
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15 Things Super Successful Bloggers Do All The Time 2008-08-13 06:23:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com
1. Create Cheeky Blog Titles
Blog titles are just as important as the blog content itself "at Hubspot, we probably spend close to half our time thinking about a cheeky blog title and half our time actually writing the article." Says Brian Halligan of Hubspot, an internet marketing company after reading my post on " Read more:Super
How Much Is Your Website Or Blog Really Worth? Your Numbers May Surprise You. 2008-08-11 06:10:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comI was surfing the web the other day and came across a website called cubestat.com and was intrigued by the concept. You enter your URL and it calculates your website stats; most of which comes from other reliable sources but it also calculates the estimated monetary value of your website as well as your potential dai Read more:Worth
, Numbers
, Surprise
Designer Spotted: Fashion Designer Colleen Quen Said "I Can!" & She Did! 2008-08-07 12:07:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designer
s | Styleapple.comDesigner Colleen
Quen in 2004 was talking about aspiring to become an influential fashion designer in the industry and today she is just that. She has been featured in print and television and has transformed her fashion business from I can to I did. For More information on Fashion
Designer Colleen Quen visit her websi
How to Write a Blog Title That Shows Up On DIGGs Front Page. 2008-08-05 05:53:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comWe all wonder how they do it. Articles with 2500 DIGGs and counting. Well in my research I found out a few things that I'll share with you. Even though it's not rocket science it does take a bit of ingenuity to get on the coveted front page of DIGG. Just on a side note - did you know that an article with 2500 DIG Read more:Write
, Title
, Front
Top 15 Most Effective Marketing Techniques For a Young Fashion Designer 2008-08-01 14:06:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing
Techniques For Designer
s | Styleapple.com
My initial post was going to be strictly about internet marketing techniques for young fashion designers and as I started writing I realized that there were also some really cool offline marketing techniques that have worked for me and wanted to share those with you as well. I know how difficult it is to start a colle Read more:Fashion
Is Your Company's Logo Design F*#$%* ing Up Your Brand Image? 2008-07-29 16:28:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com We hear these words tossed around the marketing round table all the time; branding, logo design, typography, personal branding, brand you, brand me, brand us. But what exactly does that mean to you. Well frankly it should mean a lot to you. With the introduction of the web base economy a company's logo de Read more:Brand
, Image
, Logo Design
The Recession Proof Freelance Designer Check List: 2008-07-26 07:17:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designer
s | Styleapple.comSo you would like to become a Freelance
Designer. You've gotten tired of the 9-to-5 and would like a little more freedom. You're bored with the monotony and crave more exciting projects. You would like to build your own business and achieve financial independence. That's great but you need a plan. You say to yourself, Read more:Recession
, Proof
, Check
"Twitter is Both the Coolest and Stupidest Thing Ever" 2008-07-23 15:15:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com"Twitter
is both the coolest and stupidest thing ever.", a twitter comment from a respected internet marketer. I couldn't resist, it was such a cool title for a blog post. Hmmm, are there copyrights on tweets? :) I don't think so- at least not yet.
Anyway, I've never claimed to be the guru of social networking Read more:Thing
Too Much Creative Competition? Why Green Design Might Be Your Solution! 2008-07-21 15:14:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comIn some circles green design is an oxymoron. In other circles it's simply something that should be left up to the gurus of the world! The other day I was getting ready to pickup my wife from the train station, when she insisted that I walked instead of drive. To save myself from possibly being cursed out AGAIN, I conce Read more:Green
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Creative Design Portfolio Spotted: Dave Werner - Graphic, Illustration and Web Design 2008-07-17 11:20:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comMy Creative design Portfolio
of the moment is from designer Dave Werner. His design portfolio does an amazing job outlining his work, his thought process and creative perspective. The layout while creative still lends an easy navigation and thorough overview of his work. He provided a taste of his dynamic talent and in Read more:Graphic
, Illustration
, Web Design
Project Runway Fashion Designers OFFICIAL Websites: 2008-07-13 08:58:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers
| Styleapple.comProjectRunwayFashion
Designers OFFICIAL Websites
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You know the other day I was searching the web for the official website of a project runway finalist and had the hardest time locating his website that I decided to make my own list. Let me know if you find any of the other designers so I can update the list. CHEERS ; Read more:Project Runway
Are You A Branded Designer? Take The iPhone Brand Test 2008-07-12 10:04:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designer
s | Styleapple.comThe post today is about personal branding; This is a topic I know I'll revisit again and again but wanted to get my feet wet and get your marketing marbles rolling. I'm sure that I'm not introducing you to anything new when I talk about branding.
Coca Cola is probably the single most branded product in the free world. Read more:Brand
, Branded
, iPhone
Top 10 Reasons Fashion Designers Have a Hard Time Dating! 2008-07-09 14:17:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers
| Styleapple.com
Confessions of a heterosexual fashion designer.
10 Fashion
Designers tend to be very emotional; hence very unstable.
9 Fashion Designers can be very messy and disorganized
8 Fashion Designers always wants to talk about their latest fashion show or collection
7 Its difficult to communicate because Fashion Designers o Read more:Reasons
, Dating
CALLING ALL FASHION DESIGNERS - PROJECT RUNWAY SEASON 6 CASTING IS NOW! 2008-07-05 05:15:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comCALLING ALL FASIHON DESIGNERS - PROJECT RUNWAY SEASON 6 CASTING CALL IS NOW!!
Hey guys, project runway casting for season 6 is now. This is a great opportunity for all aspiring fashion designers to showcase their talents and gain the necessary exposure to launch a successful fashion design career.
The application is d
My Top 10 Graphic Design Pro Bloggers 2008-06-24 11:36:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com
There are so many great graphic design blogs out there that it's hard to stay committed to just one. I've become addicted to many design blogs and wanted to share with you the ones that have made the most impact on me, so far. The list is based on my personal likes and dislikes and are not rated based on popularity, b Read more:Graphic
, Graphic Design
A Designer's 10 Commandments for Living on Google's Earth 2008-06-18 10:01:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designer
s | Styleapple.comWhether you care to admit it or not; Google
has become an essential part of how and if businesses succeed online and has become a god in today's search engine driven virtual world . Don't believe me? Check out these numbers:
Hitwise US - Leading Search Engines - May, 2008
This list features the top 4 leading search en Read more:Commandments
, Living
, Earth
Scars from a Bad Proposal – 8 Do’s & Don’ts when Choosing a Web Designer 2008-06-11 14:52:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designer
s | Styleapple.comRecently I've been on a creative rampage; coming up with all sorts of really cool business ideas; some of which required a web presence. Since I'm not web design savvy I wasn't sure of the rules to fully vet a web designer or web design company. Needless to say I had to learn the hard way, as usual. I've outlined a few Read more:Proposal
, Web Designer
5 Reasons Designers Should Use a Blog Instead of a Website. 2008-06-02 11:23:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers
| Styleapple.comMany of you are probably thinking the same thing. I'm a designer, I'm not a blogger. The reason I know this is because I'm also guilty of saying the same thing until I became aware of the overwhelming benfits of blogging. I recently did a post on the reasons designers fail and one of the points I talked about was the Read more:Reasons
, Instead
Top 10 Reasons Designers Fail - And Why it's All in their Heads 2008-05-27 15:31:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers
| Styleapple.comHere it is, my top 10 reasons designers fail to reach their creative potential. Whether your goal is to get more work or simply to gain more exposure in order to get more work. As a designer it took me a while before I figured out what kept me stagnant. I've come up with a list of 10 things to avoid.
#10 Saturated Mar Read more:Reasons
, Heads
Styleapple, Inc to Launch a Site to Bridge Gap between Creative Professionals and Businesses. 2008-05-05 15:03:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comPress Release Source: Styleapple.com
LAUNCH SUMMER 2008: Styleapple.com Launch
es to Bridge Gap between Creative Professionals and Businesses. Monday May 9, 2008, 11:00am ET
Finally a place where Creative Professionals from all Spectrum of the Design Industry Can Flex their Muscles.
NEW YORK CITY, May 9 -- In this new g
Forget Great Content, Find Great Images To Increase your Website Traffic! 2008-09-18 10:36:00 BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comLately, I've been monitoring the traffic to my website very closely. Depending on the day or what article I post, which ones are picked up or published essentially dictates what referrals sites show up on my beautiful pie chart :)
Recently I've noticed an upward trend of visitors coming f Read more:Great
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, Images
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