Posts Tagged ‘tips’
A Beginner’s Guide To Shooting Concert Photography
A quick beginner’s guide to help you get started using manual mode in difficult lighting situations, and especially for live concert photography.
How to float to the top of Google Search Results, without paying
Seems like too many websites and brands start up from scratch, and get absolutely NO WHERE. Without the blitzkrieg of press releases and public relations broo-haha, it can be damn hard to get relevant traffic to your site, especially with no money. Here’s my comprehensive guide for getting traffic to your site when you have no fan base, no tribe, no cult following, no page rank, no domain age, no public relations, and most importantly, no money.
Useful iPhone applications you may not know about
I don’t want to add to the already long list of great iPhone application round ups, so I’ve decided to add some applications that I use on a regular basis that seem to have snuck-in under the radar. Some of them are games, one keeps me from driving drunk, and another helps me post images to my photo blog. All the apps have at least one thing in common, they’re free.
Alternative ways to find motivation and inspiration
It’s hard to come home at the end of a normal 8 hour work day only to have to sit back down at your computer and start plugging away at more design work, or more development work like I do every day. Here’s a list of non-conventional ways I go about finding motivation and/or the inspiration to do more work.
SEO – Tips & Strategies you aren’t hearing from high priced consultants
I’m not going to add to the gigantic list of of great SEO resources and basic SEO 101 strategies that you can easily find all over the web. Instead, I’m going to go over a few secrets that I have developed specifically for my online store, Assault Apparel, that will help those of you who are like me and don’t have any sort of money to use for marketing and PPC…
5 tips to make your unsigned band stand out from the rest
After going to a great show this weekend by a local Chicago band called Seven Day Sonnet, I realized a few mistakes that all indie bands make, that they should avoid at all costs. Here’s a few tips I think all independent, unsigned bands can benefit from.
Goal Settings tips for Small Businesses
The best way by far for us to stay on schedule with our hopes and dreams was to set goals. We’ve come to learn that by setting goals for 2 months, 6 months, 1 year, and two years we put more pressure on ourselves to succeed, especially when we carry our goals around with us all day. Here’s a few quick insights to how/why we set goals.
E-Commerce selling tips explained with human behavior psychology
Do you know why we sometimes find ourselves excitedly buying things we don’t really need? I came across this outline from a book by Dan Ariely called, “Predictably Irrational” that had some incredibly insightful information about people and why we at times seem to act completely irrational. It covers giving away things for free, putting high price points on products to create demand, and even the benefit of arousal!
5 tips & resources to help get your t-shirt company off the ground
You’ve identified your niche, registered your business, designed your shirts, and launched your online t-shirt store. Now what? These few tips should help save you a few headaches as well as give you a few ideas on how to market your product for free.
SEO for t-shirt websites, and the Assault State of the Union
I’m sure most anyone who reads this is probably coming from Shirt.Woot.com. LOVE those guys over there. We were the Shirt Side Deal of the Day for February 19th and it was legendary. We broke all sales records and a had a huge showing of traffic on our site. Believe it or not we only [...]
