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How Improv Comedy Can Help When Dealing With Difficult Clients

A difficult design client can quickly become a trusting partner when applying these principles of improv comedy. The post How Improv Comedy Can Help When Dealing With Difficult Clients appeared first...

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6 Ways Design Agencies Can Get New Clients

Bringing in a consistent pipeline of new clients can feel tough for design agencies. But these six tips will help you increase your leads. The post 6 Ways Design Agencies Can Get New Clients appeared...

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Finding Your Groove – Music to Design/Code to

Whether you're designing or coding, the right music can be creative fuel. Let's give a listen to five music experiences that balance intrigue and flow. The post Finding Your Groove – Music to...

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How to Grow Your Agency or Freelance Business

Sometimes you hit plateaus with your agency or freelance business. Let's look at a few surefire ways to reach high levels of growth again. The post How to Grow Your Agency or Freelance Business...

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Death of the Cookie – Preparing for a New Marketing Landscape

What will life after third-party cookies look like? Our panel of experts discusses how to prepare for the post-cookie era The post Death of the Cookie – Preparing for a New Marketing Landscape appeared...

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7 Tips for Creative Leadership from the 2016 Chicago Cubs

What can your design or development team learn from a historic baseball achievement? It turns out: Everything. The post 7 Tips for Creative Leadership from the 2016 Chicago Cubs appeared first on The...

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Everything I Know About Leadership I Learned From The Blueprint (6 Tenents)

So you finally got your big promotion.  You’ve moved up from top designer to become the manager of a whole team of talented designers.  But now—you’re forced to learn a skillset on the fly which you’ve...

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6 Steps to Squeaky Clean Cyber Hygiene 

Good cyber hygiene might start with a checklist, but over time it can become part of your every day identity.  Being a cyber-hygienic person means acting on cyber security best practices, but also...

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SSL Certificates 101 – Everything you Need to Know

What is an SSL Certificate? SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. An SSL certificate authenticates a website’s identity and verfies the encryption of data. SSL certificates can be obtained through a...

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Ethical Internet in 2021 ( the Big Questions ) 

If you don’t live under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the Facebook whistleblower who came forward with research about the platform’s harm to teen girls. It’s since sparked hot debate around...

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3 Reasons You Don’t Take Cybersecurity Seriously (Psychologically Speaking)

Have you ever left your wallet or purse on a table in a restaurant while you ran to the bathroom? Have you ever left the front door unlocked while you went to the grocery store? If the answer to either...

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11 Things Project Managers Can Do To Make A Large-Scale Project A Success 

In almost everything in life, communication is king. When it comes to agency/client projects and relationships, that communication takes the form of the Project Manager. They’re the glue that keeps the...

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‘Tis the season to be careful: how to protect your ecommerce site during the...

The holidays are finally here and while most people will be filling the coming weeks with goodwill and cheer, there’s a subset of society that will be doing exactly the opposite – cybercriminals. It’s...

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The 2021 Round Up: Our 5 Best Posts And Their Take Aways

Although 2021 was a flop for some, it has been a solid year for creatives who could treat pandemic year two like a sabatical, finding their flow from their kitchen table / home office. We round up our...

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The Business of Change

Even on their best days, humans struggle with change. So do businesses. And the pandemic wasn’t the year’s next “hottest fad,” it was an existential threat from nature itself. When the pandemic hit, we...

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Delivering at the Speed of the Customer

As long as I’ve been creating web experiences, I’ve heard people use the “building a house” analogy. To build a house, first you need a blueprint (strategy), and then you pour the foundation...

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