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7 Ways To Tap Social Shopping: Research shows social networks influenced 37% of shoppers in 2009
Posted in: Blog, Marketing, SEO, Social Media by admin on November 22, 2009 | No Comments
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A Model of The Creative Process
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The creative process is not just iterative; it’s also recursive. It plays out “in the large” and “in the small”—in defining the broadest goals and concepts and refining the smallest details. It branches like a tree, and each choice has ramifications, which may not be known in advance. Recursion also suggests a procedure that “calls” or includes itself. Many engineers define the design process as a recursive function:
discover > define > design > develop > deploy
What if you built a website – but nobody came?
Posted in: Blog, SEO by admin on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
That’s the harsh reality facing many aspiring online businesses. Thanks to pre-built e-commerce tools and Web hosting sites, launching an online business may not be all that complicated. But there’s a big difference between launching a site and attracting paying customers. Read more…
Effective Information Visualization: How to Visualize Meaning
Posted in: Blog, Design Techniques by admin on October 22, 2009 | No Comments
In this 5 minute Pecha Kucha talk from Ignite Salt Lake, interaction designer Matthias Shapiro walks through the different data visualization techniques that can be used to figure out what a particular dataset is trying to tell us.
The 8 Myths of Marketing
Posted in: Blog, Marketing by admin on October 2, 2009 | No Comments
So much of what passes as marketing today is really a set of myths that lead to costly failures. To help avoid the mistakes these myths can cause, let’s take a look at the big ones. Read more…
Social Media and Your Biz: By Design or Default
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Think social media is a waste of time? Don’t see the benefit of incorporating social media into your marketing strategy? By the design or default, social media is impacting your business whether you realize it or not. Read more…
Why Less Is More When It Comes to Pitching
Posted in: Blog, Marketing by admin on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
By Guy Kawasaki
I recently saw a pitch that a group of strangers put together in four days. It was better than 98% of the pitches I see as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley.
This occurred at a conference for bankers called Sibos last week in Hong Kong. I was a keynote speaker and one of the judges of a “pitch” contest. These bank executives had not met each other before the conference. As part of one conference track, they formed teams and worked for a couple of hours a day for four days to come up with a business idea. The culmination of the project was to pitch it to a panel of venture capitalists. Read more…
Create Your Own Building for the Biggest Monopoly Game Ever
Posted in: Blog, Social Media by admin on September 29, 2009 | No Comments
Ever wanted to design your own Monopoly property? Now you can, thanks to Hasbro and Google. Read more…
Facebook is our favourite place to waste time online
Posted in: Blog, Social Media by admin on September 17, 2009 | No Comments
LONDON – Facebook is our favourite place to waste time online, with users spending three times as long on the social networking site than on Google.
Figures from Nielsen Online show that internet users spent an average of 5 hours and 46 minutes on Facebook in August compared to just 1 hour and 53 minutes on Google. Read more…
How to Choose Colors Everyone Likes
Posted in: Blog, Design Techniques by admin on May 22, 2009 | No Comments
A time-tested formula may not determine the difference between good or bad taste, but it does predict common taste. And that makes the formula quite useful when you’re choosing colors.
More than half a century ago, Aemelius MĂĽller, professor at the academy of Winterthur, Switzerland, came up with a formula that could predict the appreciation of a color-combination. In other words: MĂĽller was able to predict which combination of colors most people would probably like.
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