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QR Codes

It only took a pandemic for QR codes to have really widespread use here in the States. You can create your own and avoid any dependency on third party services.

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Pandemic Effect: Support Industries Suffering

Where does the pandemic future take us? Some short thoughts and links to relevant reading.

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North Carolina Reopening Phase 1

What does it mean? What will change? What will stay the same?

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“COVID-19 Announcement”

As we all hunker down and deal with the stress of lost business, I’ve observed a few things that I’ve been pointing out to friends.

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Asking for Bad Reviews

Online review systems are broken, sometimes by design. One restaurant owner took things into his own hands.

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Color Inspiration

Adobe has updated their color site with some cool new features.

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Websites as Social Media Hubs

I’ve had a couple of conversations with clients in the past few weeks that started with, “Do I even need a website? I’ve just been doing Facebook.” and ends with my standard speech I’ve titled “Social Media Should Point People To Your Website, Not The Other Way Around.” Please allow me to explain in an […]

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Fake Apple Support Calls

Forbes is reporting a warning about fake Apple support calls. People need better hobbies.

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Fixing LinkedIn Link Previews

“OMG, I FIXED THE TITLE! WHY ISN’T IT WORKING???”

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Killed By Google

“Do I really need a website?” I get this question from time to time and my answer is always, “Yes!” – not because this is my bread and butter, but because I really believe that you do. Yeah, the Internet is full of all sorts of very useful tools and social media is, no doubt, […]

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Instagram Hiding Posts?

I am, by no means, not a master of Instagram. However, I know a social media false info campaign when I see one…

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Restaurant Websites

I love doing restaurant websites because they have a built in easily organized content that is super great for search engines and customers. Unfortunately, as easy as it is to do it right, it’s just as easy to get it wrong and there’s one thing that makes me absolutely crazy and it’s the menu. When […]

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Virtual Instagram Influencer

Meet Miquela, the Instagram fashion/social cause influencer who is completely virtual. While some of us struggle to break the one thousand mark, she has no fewer than 572 thousand followers. I imagine that current fashion is a lot more popular than muffler installations or lunch specials, so we’ve got that to comfort us. There’s an […]

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Photoshop Content Aware Fill Hack

I usually hate these tutorial videos, but I found this was really useful. They tell you how to control what the content-aware fill samples for the fill by copying it to another layer. Very Smart.

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Inspiration: Vintage Logos

A collection of vintage logos found on Flickr

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Make Good Font Choices

With all the apps available, it’s easier than ever to do your own social media posts and make them eye catching. It’s also pretty easy to make them horrible as well. Here’s a little help from the folks at Adobe to help you make better font choices.

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For the Love of Logos

I found logobook.com yesterday in some random feed, or maybe it was Twitter. Great search functions built in, but more importantly you can browse by designer, business, shapes and country. Yeah, who needs Trademarks & Symbols Vol I & II now? Well, actually, I would like a copy, so if you know where I can get […]

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A Few Words on Free Services

With the announcement of restructuring at Medium, I feel that it’s a good time to point out some of the caveats of “free” services. Getting eyes on your content is an issue. Websites like Medium will get more exposure for you for little to no cost except for your time. This is great, except for […]

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