• First up, we love WordPress and so do search engines. You can highly improve your site traffic by using WP and blogging.

• We use Thematic which is an excellent SEO optimized basic theme to start with: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/thematic
Site structure technically is very important, some say even moreso than design, as well as having your own hosted site and domain instead of using the free site options.

• Consistent content not as much as blog posting frequency- search engines seek out frequently updated content- blogs are great for that.

• Also using keywords that are relevant to your biz in your post(s), links to other sites, etc. are great as well.

• Headers make a big difference since it’s the first thing search engine sees. Put your locale in the header too to help to be found locally.

• I found this great link with some free tips for optimizing your site, they really do work, I tried them myself!

http://www.artbizcoach.com/websites.html

• Specifically for artists or those in creative fields, it’s important to have your site be a reflection of “you” and your work. This is an excellent guide and well worth the price to help you with your artistic or creative business and tips for your website:

http://chrisguillebeau.com/3×5/the-unconventional-guide-to-art-and-money/

And even more fun- we had never Twit-chatted so we learned something in the process too!

Here are a couple of links for you to check out for more great tips:

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/8-tips-to-enhance-your-wordpress-blog-seo

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2011/04/27/how-to-select-good-seo-keywords/

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

Enjoy!

We are so honoured and excited!

The Right Brain Business Plan is just awesome- I’d recommend it to anyone in any stage of their creative business. It’s a great book with loads of exercises to help you figure out your creative business, where you’re going and what you want to do with it. It’s got lots of great tips and stories from other entrepreneurs about their businesses and how they “make it work”.  I’m still working my way thru the exercises but so far it’s given me a big boost to keep the momentum going full speed ahead!

Huge thanks to Jennifer Lee for shining the spotlight on us!

Now go buy her book, The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success- you’ll love it!

Have you been wanting your very own cute blog, a funky logo or stylish illustration? Or something web-related or design-y we can help you with? Look no further and come check us out! For one month we are offering all new customers 20% off on your first project with us- what could be better than that? Great design, excellent service, and great prices! Contact us for more info and we’ll look forward to hopefully working with you!

You can check out our website and work here…

It ain’t easy finding a good, reliable, and affordable printer, but once you do, you hold on to them for dear life! I like using online print services for our clients as they can ship direct to you, generally lower prices than a bricks n’mortar print shop, no fuss no muss and no middleman which means no markup for our clients! I was using a service in the US which was great, relatively inexpensive and nice quality work. Until they jacked up the shipping rates to Canada making their prices crazy ridiculous and not worth it for us anymore. I looked around online and asked around for recommendations and some local clients and colleagues recommended Jukebox Print, in Vancouver.

I tried them out with a Green Couch project, new business cards for me! And wow! I think I have found my new favorite printer! They are fast, excellent communication, and even sent a note concerning my dieline and border I had put in my artwork mentioning it might be a bit off after cutting which is normal, but you know what? They turned out perfectly! I am thrilled!

They have loads of great specials on and excellent prices, great customer service and yes. I can highly recommend them and will be using them for any printing that comes up in future!

So on your next project whether with us or on your own, try them out!

We love!

Jukebox Print
Vancouver, BC

Here we’ll be featuring client projects and other fun things that we’d like to share with you.

First I’d like to share this great site of inspiring colour trends and combinations I stumbled across, called Design Seeds.

They feature daily photographs with colour palettes pulled from the images that you can use for inspiration and ideas.

Sometimes as a designer you can get stuck using the same colours or favorite colours you know will work for a project but why not mix it up a little bit and try something new? Challenge yourself and stretch your colour sense! Sometimes a happy accident will come along and a colour combination you thought would never work, suddenly works like magic. They even have a WordPress widget you can add to your own website for a daily dose of colour fun, (check it out on the sidebar over there to your left)!

Check it out for some great inspiration!