Brightscreen can help you take better photographs for newsletters and websites with your digital camera.
Brightscreen installs custom viewing screens with crop marks that indicate more pleasing height-to-width image ratios than the awkward 8×12 image area captured by most digital cameras. You can choose to frame your images to fit a square format, or the […]

Sometimes, the sheer number of small business marketing and graphic design blogs becomes overwhelming. To help you sort through the clutter, I’ve just posted a list of my favorite marketing and design blogs. Send me your suggestions, or comment below!

Guy Kawasaki–one of the most visible Silicon Valley drivers of the high tech world–recently redid his online profile at Linkedin, a popular site, as he describes in a recent blog post. His post contains a screen capture of his original profile–with detailed comments–as well as a link to his revised profile. His story makes great […]

Since 1993, website professionals and business owners have been listening to Larry Chase. His Web Digest for Marketers website is one of the most comprehensive and respected guides to harnessing the power of marketing on the Internet.
One of his all-time best articles is his recent 13 Essentials for Thought Leadership Marketing, which you read […]

Coaches, consultants, copywriters, graphic designers, photographers, and service providers of all types will benefit from downloading Creative Latitude’s free Hourly Rate Calculator. It’s just one of the free documents and templates available.
After downloading it, simply insert your desired yearly income, and relevant overhead charges, into the free template. Within seconds, you can find out if […]

Words–monthly newsletters–aren’t the only way you can drive monthly traffic to your website. Photographs can be equally effective, as shown by social critic and iconoclastic author James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere, and other books.
Each month, he posts another Architectural Eyesore of the Month photograph showing […]

Often, the easiest way to come up with the perfect title for a project, or jumpstart a stalled project, is to search for antonyms of similar words. Antonyms are words that are exactly opposite in meaning.
For example, if you can come up with a word similar to the one you’re looking for, visit www.dictionary.com, select […]

One of the best ways copywriters, business owners, and marketing professionals can overcome writer’s block and get their creative juices back on track is to visit www.dictionary.com.
Dictionary.com is a free site easily accessed from the Mozilla Firefox toolbar, or from a downloadable toolbar you can add to your browser.
When searching for inspiration, Dictionary.com’s […]

Here’s a time saving tip that any mind mapping enthusiast, or user of Mindjet’s MindManager 6.0 Pro, can take advantage of. MindManager’s Map parts feature can save you time and greatly enhance the communicating power of your mind maps.
Map parts are like “custom template elements” that consist of a topic (or topic plus […]

Brian Jud’s Book Marketing blog is a valuable resource for authors and publishers who need to look beyond the big store chains in order to survive.
Brian specializes in special markets–non-traditional ways to approach specialized market segments. The blog format is perfect for Brian, who has a unique, 30-year, perspective on book marketing. If you like […]

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