Imagine if you'd had the opportunity to design your face. Well, there's no way to improve on your face; you're beautiful. But imagine if that reclusive guy with the weird lumpiness and discolorations and bushy eyebrows who lives at the end of your block had...
Few terms prompt fully grown men and women to moan “Awwww, do I have to?” like “business plan.” Short answer: No. You're an adult, even if you're doing an impression of a 7 year old. Nobody's going to make you write a business plan. Slightly wordier answer:...
Sometimes, business decisions are all neat and tidy and formulaic. Contractor X provides item Y reliably for 4.8 percent less than the competition. Done. But things get a little more subjective when creative elements enter the picture. Few organizations serious about their branding hire a graphic...
New entrepreneurs are a plucky bunch with an admirable but ultimately counterproductive tendency for trying to do too much themselves. Sometimes it's pure drive, sometimes it's bootstrapping, sometimes it's difficulty trusting others, sometimes it's not knowing the right person to call, and sometimes it's a...
Some trivia for you: What was the first trademarked logo? Answer: Bass Brewery's red triangle, registered in England on January 1, 1876. In many ways, it's still a good logo by contemporary standards, particularly in its simplicity and scalability. Some business icons hold up through the ages....