You probably fall into one of two camps: If you’re in the first camp, you change the copy on your website a few times a month in an attempt to make it sound better. (Like I do!) If you’re in the second camp, you haven’t updated your website copy in so long, it’s practically fossilized.
Danny Iny
What Your Logo Can Do for You
If you’re not using a visual language to speak to your audience, then you’re ignoring a huge opportunity to capture their attention without saying a word.
Is Your Creative Business Making These Critical Mistakes?
Time and again I find creative entrepreneurs flying by the seat of their pants and making the same deadly mistakes in their businesses. So today we’re going to look at two of the biggest, and how you can avoid them.
5 Things You Need to Fix on Your Website to Land Media Coverage
One of the most cost effective ways to build awareness of your business and credibility in your market is media coverage, but too often you send out pitches and nothing happens.
Guide to Smart Pricing: What Are You Really Worth?
Getting your pricing just right is tricky. There are big downsides to keeping your prices too low. But it’s easy to raise them too high for people to buy anything anymore.
Setting Bold List-Building Goals (and 3 Lessons Learned Along the Way)
There are different types of motivators that work for different people. For some, just an inner knowing that they want to achieve something is necessary for them to take action and make it happen. For others, no matter how good their intentions are, if they aren’t being held accountable by an outside force, they’ll continue to avoid doing it.
Ancient Marketing Techniques Can Yield Results
Despite our obsessions with smart phones, social media, and all things digital, one of the oldest forms of commercial marketing can still produce huge dividends. Can you guess what it is? Paper.
6 Mistakes That Kill Kickstarter Campaigns, and How to Avoid Them
Kickstarter is filled with overnight success stories—from Pebble to Ouya—who turned brilliant ideas into millions of dollars and national exposure. It’s easy to attribute their success to amazing products, the rise of crowdfunding, and a magic dose of virality.
Is Your Business Too Professional? Part 2
Last week we talked about ways to make your marketing more interesting by being less “professional.” Here are three actions you can take to be a little less professional, and a little more interesting and appealing to your customers.
Is Your Business Too Professional? Part 1
The benefits of professionalism are well known: increased perception of respectability, authority, trust, and dependability. But is there a downside to professionalism? Is it possible to be too professional?
