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Why the quickness of social media was the downfall of my blogs
Did you have a blog in the past but let it lay dormant? Where you part of the blogging craze in the middle of last decade, but then you turned to social media? I have to admit in the past few years blogged less, because I knew that google changed their ranking to prefer longer […]
7 Reasons to not start a design agency whose focus is Microsoft Word templates
Thinking of starting a design agency whose sole focus is creating Microsoft Word templates?
A business opportunity: designing Word templates for companies
There is a market opportunity for a design agency to be focused solely on making branded Microsoft Word templates for companies. Which is not just sticking the logo at the top of the Word file. Branding in a simple Word document can be done with many of the tools in Microsoft Word. Here’s a few […]
How can you automate more of what you do?
It can be a scary prospect to some–they don’t want their job automated. But really, if you know how to build a script, why not automate tasks of your job? Get things done faster, move onto other projects. I’ve always wanted more workers to be able to code–to write scripts to make regular tasks go […]
How to translate one word into all the foreign languages
Is there an online resource to translate a word into all foreign languages? You could manually look up a word in Google Translate. But don’t you want an online dictionary that can translate in all languages? Good news. Google Sheets has a function for Google Translate! You can set up a sheet with a function […]
The device for writers who can’t focus
Combine a keyboard with an e-ink screen and you have a new
Why have 15 Twitter accounts?
It’s all about giving your readers what they want. Do you enjoy reading a stranger’s tweets about his/her health? I don’t, really. But I do enjoy reading the health tweets by my close friends and family. So strangers don’t have to read my tweets about chocolate cravings, I have separate those tweets into a dedicated […]
Six great ways to use Evernote
1) Blog drafts Ever have a great idea for a blog post? You don’t
Tag a photo with #toppslive and it becomes immediate property of Topps
MLB’s only official baseball card manufacturer, Topps, is running a super-fun photo competition. Thirty fan-submitted photos will be used for the 2015 baseball card set. Imagine the delight baseball fans will get seeing their own photo appear on a baseball card! To enter just your photo on instagram with the hashtag #toppslive and it’s automatically […]