Archive for August, 2006
Advice: Good Cop/Bad Cop: outsourcing your Accounts Dept.
When you’re running a small business, it’s hard enough job to separate your working life from your personal life – but when you add to that equation the constant task of invoicing and chasing up debtors, it might be time to call in a Bad Cop.
Advice: Photoshop Tutorial: You *can* judge a book by it’s (fake) cover
Here’s a quick Photoshop tutorial based on a recent project of mine – typesetting a 900 page book for a ReBusiness client, complete with a new cover design and matching web site…
The problem was that the book had to be publicised well before the printers had completed their print run – so the book had to be quickly mocked up (faked) in Photoshop for the promotional material – a fun half-day job. Here’s how I did it…
Advice: How to design (or redesign) your logo – Part Two: Fonts
The fonts you use in your logo go a very long way towards defining how you look to your customers. But with thousands of fonts out there to choose from, and virtually none to play with in a Font Menu on your typical computer, where do you start?
Advice: Top 5 reasons to register a domain name
A lot of you reading this could already guess at least 3 or 4 of the main reasons to register a domain name for your business – but it’s something that a lot of small business and soloists overlook – and in the interests of all, it’s worth a refresh.
So I present to you the Top 5 Reasons To Register A Domain Name For Your Business. Beginning with…
Advice: Expert systems: automating your brain
It’s not as scary as it sounds – by using an expert system to automate repetitive, but specialist tasks unique to your business, you can save time, offload tasks, or put your ‘brain’ online for profit. So, who’s first for an electronic cerebrectomy then?
Right off the bat, let’s tackle the most obvious question: what is an expert system?