Client: “Everyone knows that Facebook’s just for kids. Only teenagers use it to play those stupid farm games and change their relationship status every day and write silly comments on each others’ photos. Oh, and it’s quite nice for me to send photos of the kids to my folks. ” Me: “So your folks are [...]
Competitions are an awesome way to promote your brand, get people talking about your products or services and get them to do some marketing on your behalf. It’s viral marketing at its sweetest. I got an email today with a 1Mb Word attachment advertising the sender’s product. The email instructions went as follows: “Send this [...]
I got a call from a friend the other day – she works for her mom occasionally, and her mom wanted her to redo the company business cards for their boss, but she didn’t have the right programs to do it in. Her mom wanted her to use Powerpoint, because why should she pay a [...]
I read lots of blogs. I read my clients’ blogs; I read blogs about animal welfare (my pet charity). I read design blogs x lots (in a bid to keep at the forefront of my craft) and I read horse riding blogs (my hobby). I read my friends’ blogs on many different subjects because I [...]
Recently I had the most profoundly vile experience of my life with a certain client. Let’s call him the NCfH (Nightmare Client from Hell). He was rude, he was ignorant (and proud of it! He emailed me telling me he did not want to be “over-educated”; I thought there was little chance of that ever [...]
Twitter Explained by Tweeternet: Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, “What are you doing?” by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called “tweets”, to your friends, or “followers.”