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1. A Designer's "To Do" List
   Make a commitment to propel and excel your design business forward whether you are a beginner, work for a creative firm, want to start a business or are a seasoned professional. Use this as a guideline of skills you need to acquire or improve in 2008.
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2. Paying with Paypal
   Get Immediate Access to creativebusinessowner.com by Paying With Paypal The cost for one year of creativebusinessowner.com is $97. This is a one time . . . keep reading
   
   
3. Secret, Little-Known and FREE Stock Photo and Illustration Sites
   These FREE, excellent and often little-known stock photo and illustration sites should be a mandatory part of any designer's resources. Almost all of . . . keep reading
   
   
4. How to Create Profitable Ideas with a Visual Journal
   Creating a visual journal is a fun and valuable discipline in generating rich, new and unexpected visual ideas by constantly keeping your "visual antenna" alert. These ideas often show up (sooner or later) in some facet of your work. Here's how to take advantage of them. . . . keep reading
   
   
5. 7 Principles Life and Business Has Taught Me (so far)
   We hopefully learn and grow in our journey as people and designers. By taking a larger perspective we can learn to make these life/business principles . . . keep reading
   
   
6. Ten Ways to Generate Additional Income with your Graphic Design Skills
   So, you have graphic design skills, through your present freelance position or as a graphic design employee or maybe you just want to investigate some . . . keep reading
   
   
7. 7 Ways to Stand Out in a Sea of Sameness
   Like it or not in today's competitive Graphic Design marketplace you need to find a way to get your prospects attention. Here are 7 creative ways to h . . . keep reading
   
   
8. HOW-TO ARTICLE: Are You Using Google Maps (and local search) to Reach New Design Customers? (if not, you should be)
   Local customers are already searching online (bypassing the now dated Yellow Pages) for the design services you offer. Why not make it easy for them to find you on Google Search and on Google Maps? Here's how. . . . keep reading
   
   
9. Press Release O Matic
   Imagine being able to create a perfect press release in under a minute, formatted for printing or for use on your web site. With Press Release-O-Matic you can do just that. No other tools needed, no coding, no special skills. Just one button click, and your perfect press release is created for you. . . . keep reading
   
   
10. Book Review: Triggers by Joe Sugarman
    How to Control the Mind of Others to Make More Money in your Design Business. Today we will be looking at Joe Sugarman's Triggers with a subtitle of . . . keep reading
    
    
11. How to Use "Image Streaming" to Unleash Creative Breakthroughs
    If you have difficulty visualizing use "Image Streaming" to help generate spontaneous and breakthrough marketing and design solutions. . . . keep reading
    
    
12. Download: Postcard Promo
    Immediately download and use this unusually-shaped 8.75x 3.5 sized postcard marketing promotion to show off either marquee or recent design portfolio pieces. Just replace the images and text on the back with your own. . . . keep reading
    
    
13. Nine tips for getting the best results when using freelancers to develop your software projects
    How to find and work with freelancers so that the products you want developed actually get created on time and on budget. In certain instances, the q . . . keep reading
    
    
14. Screencast: Use Speed Dial to organize your most-viewed websites in cool, visual thumbnails
    Use the free Firefox plug-in, Speed Dial, to organize your most-viewed websites in cool visual thumbnails. Especially for us designers, once you start using this you will never want to go back to strict "tabbed browsing" . . . keep reading
    
    
15. Paypal Sign Up
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16. SCREENCAST: How to Use Skype to Make Free Conference Calls
    As a design firm owner, I was always conscious of expenses - particularly with communications. In this case conference calling - How many lines do I need? Should I get more? What is the best service? In this screencast I show you how to quickly and easily set up conference calling in Skype. You'll be amazed how easy this can be.
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17. Book Review: There's a Customer Born Every Minute
    Book Review: There's a Customer Born Every Minute. Just Released! -- P.T. Barnum's Little Known Publicity Secrets Revealed (and how you can apply them today for fame, fortune and a design business of your dreams) . . . keep reading
    
    
18. Screencast: SuperDuper! - The One Truly Great Backup, Recovery and Cloning Utility for your Design Business
    Here's the scene: Turn on your Mac. Nothing happens. Your hard drive died. All your files (email, client files, Quickbooks, applications, iTunes, etc) Poof! - gone. What do you do? Well, I'll tell 'ya. . . . keep reading
    
    
19. DOWNLOAD: Tabloid Theme Promotional Postcard
    Immediately download and use this successful 6" x 8.5" Tabloid Postcard for an attention-getting marketing campaign. Just download the file and change the necessary information and/or images. . . . keep reading
    
    
20. Case Study: VanderVeer Center Rebranding
    Jeff Fisher, principle of LogoMotives, recently completed a major rebranding project for Dr. Elizabeth VanderVeer's Clinic. Learn how he did it here. . . . keep reading
    
    

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