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Properties of Great Business Names. To be truly great, a business name needs to have certain qualities. These are the near universal characteristics that great names share. Measure your ideas against the following eight point checklist. Feel free to break the rules where you see fit, but at least know them before you break them! 8 Point Checklist Memorable. The Perfect Name? I’ve yet to hear the perfect name, I’m not sure such a thing exists. I love the name of my agency Geeksy, but it’s not the easiest name to say out loud and for people to spell intuitively – thankfully we work in the digital arena so that’s not often a problem.

What do you think is the perfect name? About Jake Dyson. Create Free Business Videos for Marketing | 83 Oranges. All your social media marketing efforts can get a great boost with the addition of video marketing on YouTube, be it promotional videos you may have or video tutorials recorded with a screen capture feature. But where do you start? And how do you make a video for #free? The answer is EZ Vid, a free desktop software that you can use to compile a video slideshow made of either multiple videos or multiple photos or both, create a screen capture video with audio instructions or background music and export it to YouTube. It even has an easy-to-use text slide creator along with a pan & zoom transition effect for image slideshows and an audio clips library. I’m sure there are tons of similar softwares out there that offer much more advanced video and image editing features as well as animation effects however EZ Vid is pretty much the only free video creation/marketing tool available today and therefore, is worth checking out.

Need your business logo designed? Go ahead! Studio Output brands Launcher startup initiative. Tue, 29 Jan 2013 | By Angus Montgomery Studio Output has developed a new identity and campaign for Launcher, a new programme that offers Government-backed loans with training and mentorships for young entrepreneurs. Launcher identity The Launcher programme has been developed by Doug Richard, a former panellist on Dragons’ Den, and was launched by Prime Minister David Cameron this month. Operated by Richard’s School for Startups, launcher is open to new business owners aged between 18 and 30. Studio Output developed an identity for Launcher, which incorporates the existing School for Startups branding.

Launcher website Using the strapline ‘Rocket fuel for young businesses’, it also features the ‘A’ in Launcher rendered as a rocket taking off. 9 Fresh Free Fonts. Here at WDL we love to keep our readers updated, especially when it comes to fresh free fonts. Today we gathered 9 new free fonts to keep your design library updated and fresh. V.GER Grotesque Matchup RIDGE Typeface KanKin Myra Mathlete Moonshiner Grand Hotel Vincent. 21 Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design. Choosing the right color scheme for a website is certainly a very important step of a project, specially because colors communicate a lot and will also set the tone, the personality of a page. From bright and white layouts to super colorful ones, there is an option for every style you want to communicate.

Today we will show you some inspiring examples of dark colors in web design. You’ll see some websites that use dark colors in various details of the design, while others use a dark image to set the overall tone. Check out the list to get some inspiration for incorporating dark colors in your next project. Glad Creative arkleus East African Bakery Ghost Bark to Work Carolina Herrera 212 Let’s Travel Somewhere Barrel Recap Zipper Galeria Magic Leap sotmarket.ru inTacto Magic City Yang Rutherford Data Driven London The Experiential Company Addiction Lindalino Browser Awareness Day Letters Sandra Lovisco About the Author Related Posts 403 shares 11 Inspiring Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design Read More.

Made in Japan brand logos by Antrepo. The pared-down logos found on vintage Japanese cameras inspired Istanbul-based design consultancy Antrepo to create conceptual minimal logos for web brands like Facebook, Google and YouTube (+ slideshow). Antrepo, led by designer Mehmet Gozetlik, based the Made in Japan project on 35mm SLR cameras manufactured in the 1970s and 1980s. The designers noticed that cameras made by Canon, Nikon, Pentax and Minolta in that period all featured simple line drawings in place of the brands' logos, which were normally much bolder. The line drawings cut production costs by making them easier to apply to the metal camera bodies, Gozetlik explained to Dezeen. Antrepo took the colourful logos of contemporary web-based companies and services like Instagram, eBay and Twitter and turned them into stark monochrome designs.

The new logos appear to be etched into metal, echoing the appearance of the vintage cameras. We previously featured Antrepo's minimalist take on well-known food packaging designs. 21 Fresh Examples of Responsive Web Design. Responsive design is something a lot of designers talk about. And considering the importance of responsiveness and all the buzz around it, it’s impressive the amount of websites that are still not responsive. By now, with the amazing growth of mobile usage, every single website should be responsive to be able to attend to every user’s “screen size needs.”

Today I gathered some fresh examples of responsive sites to reinforce the importance of adapting your layout to every screen. Probably you will recognize a few websites from past lists, but they are so good that they deserve to be back here. I used the mattkersley.com/responsive tool to check the response of each of the websites showcased here and I decided to show you the iPhone version of them. British America Household Staffing Designed to Move Fhoke Evolve Digital Atelier Andrew Lohman Yaron Schoen Friends of the Web Simon Foster Nudge Johann Lucchini Roy Barber Face.Works.

Lab Fiftyfive oak.is FortyOneTwenty Colorkite Louis Gubitosi Substrakt. Conscious Capitalism. Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose: Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, Jagdish N. Sheth: 9780131873728: Amazon.com. Three things I wish I’d known when I started my business | Naomi Simson's Blog. [Originally appeared on LinkedIn] I think back more than a decade to the moment when I thought it was a good idea to start an online business. There are some things I really wish I had known as I set out.

Although one mentor said to me years ago, “the greater the loss the bigger the lesson,” there comes a point if the business lessons get too expensive – and, well, then it’s all over! 1) It’s never just the good idea This is the very first moment when you think it is ‘a good idea to run your own show’; you have read of these entrepreneurial heroes who create amazing ‘overnight’ success stories – and you think, “I could do that”. All you need now is that idea – which will make the business simply slip into place and you are on your road to Nirvana. 2) Don’t ask, “Will it work?” I’m approached regularly by people wanting to share a new business idea with me. 3) It’s not about the money If you are driven solely by financial success in business, think again. Below our noble purpose show reel. Business tips from alastair mitchell of huddle. Getting to this point has been exciting, exhilarating and exhausting at times, but all the more rewarding for it.

Setting up your own company comes with its fair share of trials and tribulations and can be massively daunting here in the United Kingdom. The UK is an incredible country in many ways, but I’m not always convinced that it is as supportive of entrepreneurs as it could be, particularly when compared to the US. That’s not a criticism of government, but more a general observation about the culture surrounding start-ups and entrepreneurs. In the US, and in San Francisco especially, people are encouraged to become entrepreneurs; there is a support network for people to tap into, ask questions of and get advice from. Even the biggest and most successful entrepreneurs take the time out to pass on their experiences and act as a mentors. 1.

You need to look at what is out there already, what might be in the pipeline and see if there really is a market for your idea. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Stop Using These 16 Terms to Describe Yourself. Looking up legs from sexy heel. Sexy attractive female legs up with high heels isolated over white background Stock Photos.