I had the pleasure of spending my lunch time with LaKesha Womack for her appropriately named blog talk radio show, “Lunch with LaKesha“. We discussed some key points in building a successful brand. The points we covered were: Consistency Positioning Professionalism Image Communicating the right message Click below to get the details of everything we talked about during lunch. Listen to internet radio with LaKesha Womack on Blog Talk Radio

Buffy Griffin of EnVISIONED Works speaks with Owner and Founder Mark Bailey on “The Importance of Graphic Design” on Blog Talk Radio

As a small business becomes more conscience of the importance of a solid web presence they look for a long-term solution that will successfully provide this. One of the challenges small businesses have is the inability to hire a team of developers within their infrastructure to constantly maintain changing web content. In many cases, once they contract an outside web developer to construct their web site they are faced with the issue of how to [...]

Even in today’s world of advanced technology, the business card is still king. It is the first impression someone has of your business. A cheap business card design usually translates to a cheap business in the mind of the person receiving the card. A quality card will take you far in face-to-face networking. Yellow Dogg Designs is offering visitors to The Dogg Blogg the opportunity to win free business card design. Giveaway Details 1 1-sided [...]

You’ve let your nine-to-five go and dove head first into your new venture as an entrepreneur. There’s nobody to tell you what to do or when to do it. You are your own boss and ready to take on the world. but… There’s nobody to tell you what to do or when to do it. You’re responsible for everything now. Before your tract to self-employment, you walked into an office that was neatly organized and [...]

I am happy to announce that Yellow Dogg Designs and The Dogg Blogg will be featuring a fantastic contest sponsored by UPrinting. There will be two (2) winners to walk away with 100 postcards each. If you run a design company or simply a small business trying to promote your brand, why not take this opportunity to create a new set of marketing materials for your services. Giveaway Details 100 Postcards for each winner* 5” [...]

Ever needed to reduce the size of a large batch of images at one time so you could email them? Or have you needed smaller images for a gallery on your website? Need all your photos to be the same size? Here’s what you have been waiting for. The Shrink O’Matic!!! If this sounds like a spoof of low-budget infomercial it isn’t. Well it is but The Shrink O’Matic does actually exist.   What is [...]

Traci A. Smith, CEO and founder of The S.H.E. Agency, requested I do a blog that focused on how business owners can communicate with their clients without giving out their personal phone number. This is especially a concern for entrepreneurs who work out of their homes. While we need to be visible and accessible in order to earn a living, our safety is a real concern. I felt this was a great opportunity to present [...]

When I do Featured Freebie I try to find things that are 1) free(of course) 2) Useful for small businesses and 2) something that I would gladly pay for if there was a charge to it. The Square Card Reader is one of those products. Basically Square will turn your apple or Android mobile device into a mobile credit credit card reader. It’s ideal for businesses without a standard location, for salespeople who work out [...]

Often, I have to train a client on using their CMS. Since it is not always feasible to do face-to-face training (due to distance or budget) I would have to conduct the training over the phone. Along with that I needed a way to share my screen so that I could make sure that both, I and the client, were following along on the same page. This is where Mikogo came in. I was introduce [...]