Free Ebook – Business Tips and Inspiration
Last year I created a special ebook for my clients. It was named the Apt Design 2010 Client Ebook and was basically a thank you to all of them for being great clients in 2009. The little book was full of business tips and inspiration I had come across during the year and wanted to [...]
Kashoo / Clarity Accounting Fluid Icon
At the beginning of this year I moved my business bookkeeping and accounting from the horrible QuickBooks to Clarity Accounting, which has now been renamed Kashoo. Kashoo is a completely online app which easily lets me enter expenses, track my income and even send Invoices via email. It’s a great little app that seems to [...]
New Projects: Wenatchee Valley Chamber and AP College Football
I don’t usually write blog posts about finishing projects (you can just see them in my portfolio), but I’ve recently finished two huge projects that were a lot of fun and that turned out really great. Thought I’d let you know about them. The first is for the Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce. I’ve been [...]
2010 Client Survey Results
A few weeks ago, for the 3rd anniversary of Apt Design, I sent out a survey to all of my previous and current clients. It was an opportunity to get some honest feedback from people who had really worked with me, and look at how those responses could make my company better. Overall the 2010 [...]
Guest Blog Post on Creating a Healthy Work/Life Balance
There hasn’t been much action here on the Apt Design blog lately. One of the reasons for that is that I’ve been working on a post for another, bigger blog – GraphicDesignBlender.com after Preston invited me to write a guest post. Recently I finished up the article and it was published. If you want, just [...]
What Would You Ask Your Customers?
Next month Apt Design will be celebrating it’s 3rd birthday. As part of that celebration and in keeping with my core value of Communication I’m going to be sending a customer survey to all of my past and present clients. I’ve talked about getting feedback on this blog before, because I think it is extremely [...]
Seeing Creatively
Recently I started looking for some ways to be more creative. I mean, I’m creative all day at my job, working on original web designs, creating logos and designing ads and posters. But it’s tough for me to want to keep doing that same kind of design after hours. So, in the past few years [...]
4 Ways to get More Traffic to Your Blog
There are now literally millions of businesses and individuals in the world blogging, all vying for the eyes of as many readers as they can get. Many times blogs are set up, a few posts are created and then the blogger or business just sits back and waits for traffic to come pouring in. Sorry, [...]
Can You Write it Out?
I’m not a big proponent of meetings. In a few cases I think they can help brainstorm good ideas, make decisions quickly, and make big changes decisively. But, for the most part I think the time could be spent better (either doing more productive work or enjoying relationships with those we love). One big reason [...]
By Request, Photos of Sunny
I try to keep this blog focused on things of interest to my clients. Lately though I’ve had a lot of requests from my clients to see photos of my baby daughter. So this week we’ll be taking a break from WordPress, design, author websites and the like. Instead, just cute baby pictures:
