How to Always be Successful
That is a big title, right? Aren't we all chasing success in some way or the other? But to claim that it's possible to always succeed... well, hang in there just a second. In order to capture the elusive success, we have to pin her down! Who is she, and when do we even know…
5 Tips For Working With a Digital Agency
Before starting a project, be it web design, a video or some branding work, there are some things you as a customer may do to make the process as swift and cost effective as possible.
Branding FOMO
We live in the Information Age, and have more options than ever. More options also means more hard choices, and the risk of being afflicted by FOMO is ever existent—even sometimes seeping into our branding work. FOMO—an abbreviation for Fear Of Missing Out—is a feeling most of us have felt on some level. In short…
The Google–Human Balance of SEO
Content is king. That has become an old saying by now, but still it is equally true. Google always aims to push relevant content to searchers, so if you write something relevant first and then hone your content to work good with search engines, that will in the end be way more rewarding than trying…
Get Creative With Your Web Address
You probably know that you can pick a number of top level domain's beside .com or .your-country-code. However, you may not know that you have a vast amount of options. Maybe one of those options fits your brand as well as it did for us. When I discovered that .productions existed out there, I knew that I'd found my…
Why You Should Use Wix (or Why You Shouldn’t)
Wix is simple and you can do it yourself. “Yourself” being the keyword that determines whether the Wix-way is your way. In this article I weigh the pros and cons of using Wix, versus hiring a professional to manage your web presence. There are many more or less simple tools out there you can use…
Facebook Post Preview—See Your Post Before Sharing
Can you preview your Facebook posts? You have just finished setting up your website, and it looks amazing. The only problem is, you have no idea how it looks if somebody shares it to Facebook. Fortunately the answer to the preceding questions is: Yes you can, and you can also take complete control over how…
How to Add “Products Shown” to Facebook Posts
Have you seen those Facebook posts that have products or services shown on them under the title, "Products shown?" Ever wondered how to show them there? Here is a complete walkthrough of how to do it. How do you add “Products Shown” to your Facebook Posts I made a tutorial video that goes through every…
Simple Branding Tips for You That Already Have a Brand
I want to give some practical tips for how to stick with your company's brand wherever you are working in your organization and whatever your task is. Always Return to the Palette That's too simple of a tip, you say. But no! It is incredible how often we don't pay any mind to it. And remember I am talking to…
How to Raise a Website
Many treat the web like print. You produce the website, you fill in content, and then you leave it “hanging” on the web like some sort of digital poster. I am not against that, it is a good starting point, but let us not stay there. The future is to constantly refine and update your…
Why Your Website Fails (and Why Old MacDonald Succeeds)
So you just got a new shiny website up and running, but no one seems to care. Tumbleweed rolls across your url, and no one knows your address—how will your website succeed? It is a challenge everybody has faced, and there are some pretty straight forward answers to this problem. You just bought a property: Your…
How to Make Hand Drawn Logos in Illustrator
One of my personal favorite approaches to making logos in Illustrator, is where you hand draw it first, then scan or photograph it and pull it into Illustrator to vectorize it and refine it. Using this approach you have the opportunity to either straighten up your lines and turn your simple sketch into a perfectly symmetrical…
The Shy Tag
The shy tag—this little tag that allows you to decide where to break up long words when the screen gets too narrow. I don't know why it took me such a long time to come across any mention of it, but it is probably because it is shy, and it is trying to hide. How…
