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Sara’s newest design portfolio images

By Sara | Published: July 18, 2010
I recently updated my graphic and web design portfolio to include some of my most recently completed projects from the Spring. Among them are logos, business cards, postcards, rack cards, icons, ads, hang tags, and numerous websites. Take a peek.
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Facebook competition rules

By Sara | Published: July 12, 2010
Facebook is a great way to market your business. However, Facebook has cracked down on how people are using it to run competitions. Belly Beyond’s blog has a quick run down of the do’s and don’ts of running such promotions, with the main rule being: You cannot make the entry of a competition dependent [...]
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Sell your art through Facebook

By Sara | Published: July 12, 2010
As an artist with other jobs, it’s challenging for me to keep a plentiful inventory of art prints, let alone keep that stock in numerous locations. That’s when I found Fine Art America, an online retailer and printer of artist reproductions. Fine Art America has a venue for you to upload your high quality images [...]
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Spread the word on Facebook

By Sara | Published: July 6, 2010
One of the easiest ways you can support a friend or a friend’s fan page on Facebook is by sharing it with your other Facebook friends. Here are four easy ways to help share your friends’ Facebook Fan Page in less than 5 minutes: Become a fan: Become a Facebook Fan by first logging into Facebook, [...]
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Improve your site’s visibility with quality links

By Sara | Published: July 2, 2010
I came across two great articles from Google on how to build to quality links to help get your website seen from organic searches (i.e. search engine optimization for your website). This first article links to the another that further reviews the best practices for optimizing your website through organic searches, creating organic link building, [...]
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Promote friends on Facebook

By Sara | Published: June 30, 2010
Do you ever see how some people can promote a friend or fan page through their Facebook posts, but you don’t know how? To help out a friend or organization, simply start a post, write your text, and then before their name, hit shift+@ and then start typing one of your fans and/friends. A drop [...]
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Recap from my marketing workshop

By Sara | Published: June 30, 2010
Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s marketing meeting. I was so stoked to see so many people interested in growing their business as well as loved the great feedback and comments. Some of the additional things we discussed that are not on the worksheets include: Blogs to Follow: - Sara’s blog: scroll down to the [...]
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Free marketing workshop for clients

By Sara | Published: June 25, 2010
As a way of giving back to my clients, I am offering a free marketing workshop on Tuesday, June 28th at 6:30pm (open only to past and current clients this time around). This will be a fun session where we get inspired to take our businesses a step further and educate ourselves on the things [...]
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Caring works- the new business model

By Sara | Published: June 21, 2010
I truly love Seth Godin’s posts about business and marketing. He has some amazing points that all business owners can relate to in a non jargon-rich, daily blog. In his post comparing business to business marketing approaches, he discusses the old model of looking at dollar signs and profit margins versus the passion-rich model, where [...]
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