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Principles of Graphic Design
One of the biggest changes of the internet age is hardly ever mentioned: people without formal training in graphic design produce a huge percentage of all the visuals we see today. That's not necessarily a good thing.
It started when computerized design became accessible in the mid '90s. Soon, everyone who could figure out the software started calling themselves graphic designers. But one can know how to use Photoshop or Illustrator without any understanding of the principl...
Everything You Know About Luxury Has Changed
Millennials are changing everything we know about luxury. Here are 5 key areas your luxury business must master to stay relevant.
What I Wish Consumers Knew About Buying Designer Jewelry
When you introduce someone to the joy of buying art the experience can be transformative. Consumers should have that experience buying designer jewelry.
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Expertise, Hubris, and Success
How do you balance the requirement for expertise with the hubris that sometimes accompanies it? In this video, Andrea Hill explores this topic and makes to important suggestions.
Marketing Strategy Dos (as in uno and tres): Unlimited Engagement
Social media insights can supercharge your marketing strategy. Today, let's look at some of my favorite tools for tracking and analyzing social media engagement.
7 Steps to Banishing Bad Aphorisms
How you market determines how your customers respond to you. That's definitely not something to leave to chance.
In it to win it: Don't let generic retailers and pricing models drag you off your designer strategy
You already know being in business for yourself is hard work. But working this hard for no money? Differentiate.
Familiarity Breeds Content
How do you penetrate the attention of the unthinking individuals who happen to be your prospects? By being familiar even if you’re not known.
Don't be a Virtual Leader
If you find yourself assembling virtual teams of home-based contract workers, you will need to develop new skills and sensitivities to motivate, manage, and assess them.
Cinderella Teams and Giant Killers
Small businesses have a distinct advantage that large businesses do not have, and one of the things we must do is exploit this advantage to the maximum extent. What is it? Our ability to be flat, networked, and flexible.
Caution! Don't Try This at Home
The truth is, nearly every manager demonstrates a little FETCH once in a while.
Your Twitch is Showing
Twitch your nose all you want, but then you should probably get down to the grown-up work of evaluating, making informed decisions, being patient, accepting current reality, and creating incremental change.
The Lost Art of Intention
What we really need now are a few good intentions.
Caution! Don't Try This at Home
The truth is, nearly every manager demonstrates a little FETCH once in a while.
The Knee Bone's Connected to the . . . (or, A Cure for All Manner of Social Problems
This failure to make connections is not isolated to the medical community. Business owners regularly fail to make the connections necessary to ensure the health of their businesses.
Is it about the economy? It's about the leadership stupid.
The job of leadership is a big one – whether it is leading a country or leading a department.
Integrity is A Russian Doll
An integrity-infused business is all-or-nothing. You’re either feeling it or you’re not, and if you’re not feeling it, it will bite you in the bottom line.
The Gift That Keeps On Giving? Technical Skills
You already know that reading, writing, and an education are a requirement for success. Now you must add technical skills to that list.
Giddy’up
Managing risk requires an ability to analyze the pros and cons of each decision from an objective place. Here are some tips on how to do it.
The Administrative Answer to Wisdom at Work
The larger a business grows, the more difficult it is to manage communication among all of its constituents. Some policies are unavoidable, but it is desirable for an environment to operate on sound principles rather than rules and policies to the greatest extent possible.
An Improved Report Card
If you want a quick insight injection on how to take goal setting and self-assessment to the next level, let this be your 5-minute primer.
Evaluating Business Software Programs? Dig Deeper From the Beginning
When investigating business software programs always start by evaluating the underlying code and technology and how the software is designed.
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