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Dec
07

Set Up a Listening Post: Strengthen Your Marketing…

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As you reflect on your marketing efforts in 2009 and prepare for 2010, it’s easy to focus on what you accomplished (or didn’t) and what kinds of strategies will meet your needs going forward.  But before you design a plan that’s all about YOU, remember that no marketing will work unless you put your customers first.

Ask yourself the following question: how often do you listen to your customers?

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Nov
17

L is for LOVE

All of the sudden I’m in-love with the alphabet! Of course, as a graphic designer I have always loved the alphabet but over the last few weeks I have fallen in-love. There have been several great alphabet posts on design*sponge, and I wanted to share them with you.

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Oct
30

Ranger Round-up:
Halloween Edition

Happy Halloween!

Here are a few great pumpkin ideas, just in case you are still looking…

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Oct
06

(not so weekly) Ranger Round-up

I have decided to quit calling this the “Weekly” Ranger Round-up, simply because I cannot guarantee you that I will get to it every week! I’ll feel a lot less guilty about not getting it done every Friday if I give you the disclaimer – “I cannot guarantee that I will get to it every week.” Oh, and I used to number the Round-up. I think I’ll nix that too. I’m just going to cross my fingers that on the days that you have the time, you’ll check out our blog. Maybe you’ll be pleasantly surprised, “Hey, bonus! A Ranger Round-up. Mid-week even. What a surprise!”

I really enjoy writing the blog and doing the link round-up. Does it put food on the table? In most cases, no. So of course I do the work that pays first. My favorite quote, that I believe I made up, is “Life gets in the way of my life.”

Without further a due, the Weekly Ranger Round-up…

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