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File Naming Best Practices
Nobody likes to talk about it, but it really is best for the health of your marketing.
How to get the best testimonials and reviews.
Collect the best testimonials your competitor has then write a script for what you would say to a new client which would make them repeat your competitor testimonials about you.
I dressed up my marketing with an audio costume for halloween.
I thought it would be a fun way to promote a new podcast I'm working on.
Story-driven Marketing and “More Than A Jacket”
I can’t think of a single customer that can’t tell the story of their product or service through the people that have used their products or services. This Jacket story does it beautifully.
Big Mac iPhone Portrait Challenge
This is just insane: what this French photographer did with just a Big Mac box, iPhone and a mini flashlight
The most beautiful interview I’ve ever done
Check out this behind-the-scenes look at how we used inexpensive gear to capture the most authentic story of the biggest search for truth in the universe.
Finding Marketing Truth
The most beautiful interview I’ve ever done · Facebook jumping the shark · Making profiles more beautiful · What was Intuit and Mailchimp thinking · The degree for the greatest chance of success · And 12 sites we built on Squarespace in 2 minutes. Whew!
Small Bus depending on social exploring other options after Facebook outage
Buzzfeed featured an article today where several small business Instagramers lost enough money yesterday to remind them how vulnerable they are. The theme throughout the article: develop your website as a home base.
Facebook’s bad day and how you should approach social media with your marketing
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all currently down while it’s stock plunged today in wake of whistleblower revelations and a searing 60 minutes interview yesterday. What should you do?
Get your DNS under control. It can take you down, like it did Facebook
Your Domain Name or DNS (i.e. ours is orbisdesign.com) often doesn’t live where your website does and many clients have run into serious issues because they didn’t have control over there DNS — kind of like what looks to have happened to Facebook disappearing off of the face of the Internet today.
Better Profile Pics with Lightroom, Remove.bg & Figma
Many times we get pictures from people that are low quality but there’s a lot we can do with some simple tools. Watch this video to to see how we took this low quality image and improved it.
Why Intuit Bought Mailchimp for $12 Billion
As a MailChimp fan, several have asked my thoughts on the recent $12 billion purchase of MailChimp by Intuit. I believe it’s telling us something important for small business audience building.
What degree gives you the highest chance of success?
Hear what Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank, Venture Capitalist, and Author Kevin O’Leary says changed his mind from Engineer to …. wait for it ……
12 sites we built in Squarespace in 2 minutes.
Imagine your website is like the iPhone — constantly getting killer upgrades. Now imagine if the price for those upgrades are included in the original cost. That's what Squarespace does and they just announced yesterday some exceptional new features coming.