The Creative Offices Blog When I started my business, I knew I was signing up for some difficult times. What I didn’t know was how important human connections would be to my success, and how enriched my life would become by building relationships with my colleagues, my clients, and my community. The Kobdish Approach isn’t […]
The other day, I was having a spirited discussion — is there any other kind? — with George Hendley of The Speakers’ Academy about the role slideshows can have in a presentation. The conversation went something like this: Jonathan: Do you want me to help design a slideshow to go along with your speech? George:
When you’re in business, the Number One Rule is to protect your brand. Your brand is a being; it’s tangible. It has an identity. It has a voice. It has a reputation. It has a combination of characteristics that make it unique and important. And same as any being, your brand can be liked, trusted,
Author’s Note: This post is going to be half rant/half advice. Although The Creative Offices primarily provides website-related services, we do work with local printers in order to get physical materials made — like business cards, or van wraps, yard signs, brochures, and so on. There are many steps in the creative process from conception
Every day on social media, there’s a business publishing — often using ugly and disrespectful language — whatever thoughts come to mind, forgetting to remember that many of their personal connections are, in fact, business connections. And then they’re shocked when their market disappears…
A common question that we get asked is this: why should our company pay thousands of dollars for a Wordpress website when we can get a site from a cloud-based web platform for less than $50 per month?
At the beginning of my career I earned some extra cash working for a telemarketing agency. I was a polite, well-spoken, accomplished young man, and closed roughly a full quarter of my calls. The only person with better numbers — by an incredible margin — was Norberto, a barely functioning heroin addict whose spoken English was severely broken, and whose reading skills were almost nonexistent.
