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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way. All Rights Reserved. Copyright by Steve Patterson of Bizcards Blog ©2004 to 2009
Just wishing everyone a safe and wonderful
4th of July!
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I started this bill in Knoxville, TN. It then went to Cromona, KY. It is now in Elkhorn City, KY.
This bill has travelled 126 Miles in 154 Days, 2 Hrs, 56 Mins at an average of 0.82 Miles per day.
It is now 125 Miles from its starting location.
Whining does wonders!
I want more hits and I want them now!
*fingers crossed*
WISH ME LUCK!
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I entered this bill in Knoxville, TN and it is now in Normal, AL.
I also got to enter in a new zip code the other day. I hope I get hits on those bills soon.
Whining does wonders!
I want more hits and I want them now!
*fingers crossed*
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What is my greatest accomplishment
I would have to say that my greatest accomplishment is attaining the rank of Eagle.
The rank of Eagle is the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America. I attained the rank of Eagle on July 5, 1994. I was a member of Troop 26 in the Great Smoky Mountain Council. I started out as a Cub Scout and worked my way to the very top! I am also a Life Time member of the National Eagle Scout Association (NESA).
Once an Eagle Scout, Always an Eagle Scout!
Reader input! What is your greatest accomplishment?
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Creativity is the key to keeping a small business flourishing in tight economic times. And while creativity will make your business grow stronger, there are also other free tools and opportunities small businesses should use to their advantage.
Many resources are available for small business owners to develop a plan for success, says “Mr. AllBiz” Steve Strauss, author of “The Small Business Bible.” He shares some of his tips here:
Make your small business appear big.
You might not have a huge warehouse or more than a dozen employees, but you can still give your business the professional appearance of one 10 times your size. First impressions are important. Print some professional-looking business cards and pass them out, design a great logo for your company and put that logo on a sign where everyone can see it.
Smart business planning
Get free help.
Organizations like the Small Business Administration and SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” exist to provide assistance. They can give you help specifically tailored to your business. Also, retail organizations are creating tools for small business owners to find additional resources. For example, Office Depot has created “The Survival of the Smartest” Web site as part of its Small Business Self-Bailout Plan.
Included on the site at www.TheSurvivalOfTheSmartest.com, are weekly videos with smart tips, special product and service offers, small business resource tools, up-to-date news provided through feeds from small business Web sites and blogs, promotions specifically for businesses and expert advice on topics like how to connect your wireless network, how to save money while greening your office, information security and more.
Focus on your X Factor.
Recognize what you do and why you do it, and then research your competition. When you discover the factor that makes your business better and different from the competition, learn how to focus and multiply that “X Factor” to achieve success.
If you have a smart survival strategy that has helped your small business get through these tough times, you can enter the Office Depot Adopt a Small Business Contest. The company will recognize 500 small businesses nationwide for their smart survival strategies and award them each with more than $2,000 in Office Depot gift cards, tech support for a year and copy, print and shipping services. That’s $1 million in bailout money available. To enter, upload an original 2-minute video starting June 1 that explains the smart things your business is doing to survive these challenging times to TheSurvivalOfTheSmartest.com.
Courtesy of ARAcontent
If you need business cards, graphic design or even a Web site designed up, feel free to contact Stevez Designz. Stevez Designz is my freelance graphic design, photography and Web design business.
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Could color be the secret ingredient to helping your business survive in a down economy? Yes, according to a study on color and its impact on small businesses conducted by Xerox and International Communications. It found that color has a strong ability to attract new customers, make companies appear larger, increase customers’ memory retention and make marketing collateral and presentations more effective.
Leslie Harrington, Ph.D., director of the Color Association of the United States, has teamed up with color experts from Staples, Inc. to offer these tips to help companies make smart color decisions:
1. Know Your Audience: Research which colors are associated with specific emotional responses or meanings. For example, purple is often used to convey prestige, while green is seen more as a neutral color. Red is symbolic of leadership and strength; yellow is seen as intellectual and innovative. The color orange is vibrant, which is why it’s often used to represent cleaning products.
2. Present in Color: Color is the fastest and strongest touch point with people. According to the study, 90 percent of small businesses surveyed believe customers remember presentations and documents better when color is used. Other research shows that 60 percent of customers base their purchasing decision on color.
Research also reveals that readers decide whether to read or reject pamphlets and direct-mail pieces in just 2.5 seconds, and that 55 percent of people are more likely to pick up a full-color piece of direct mail first. Color can help keep your materials out of the junk mail pile.
Color also increases readers’ attention spans and recall by 82 percent and makes an impression that is 39 percent more memorable than black and white.
3. Get Creative: Some companies select nontraditional colors for their products to get customers’ attention. Think about how you can differentiate a specific product or service with bold, out-of-the-ordinary uses of color to make them memorable.
4. Less Is Often More: Color is a powerful way to communicate, so be careful not to overdo it. Use one key color and a few accents. Simple, strong color messages can keep your brand memorable. Work with no more than three colors to keep things clean and concise.
To give businesses innovative ways to bring projects to life through color, Staples offers a wide range of color printing services for everything from business cards to proposals as well as Xerox-trained color experts and Xerox equipment at 1,500 Copy & Print Centers in stores nationwide.
For more information, visit www.office.xerox.com and www.staples.com/copyandprint.
Compliments of NAPS
If you need business cards, graphic design or even a Web site designed up, feel free to contact Stevez Designz. Stevez Designz is my freelance graphic design, photography and Web design business.
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If you have visited my blog with-in the last few days and it was sluggish (slow) I am so sorry. I been working like crazy to figure out what was wrong. How did I fix this? I deleted my .htaccess file. I think it may have got corrupt. And now my blog is back to normal and working just fine. I am working on reactiving my plug-ins and such, so please be patient with me as I add all that stuff back. Again, thanks for reading Bizcards Blog.
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Do you want some business card samples? I have gathered up a list of business card printng companies that send samples of their work. Check out this list.
1 Print
4 Over
1,001 Business Cards
AAA Full Color Business Cards
Ace Business Cards
Ace Printing
Acid Flyers
Andreoni Business Cards
Area Printing
Bargain Printing
Brooke Business Forms
Business-Card.Com
Business Card Make Over
Cards Made Easy (UK)
Click Business Cards
Color Cards
Color K Graphics
Cyber Card
Dallas Card Works
Design Your Own Card
Extreme Business Card
Form Builder Pro
Flyer Faucet
Full Color Exprerts
Gapco
GFX Printing (CA & US)
Global Digital Inc. (Andreoni)
Got Print
I Need Business Cards (GFX Printing)
Ink Drop Designs
JAK Prints
Laminated Cards
Level Printing
Mind Box Media
Over Night Prints
Photo Creations Online
Photo Invitations Online
Phrizbie Design
Print Firm
Print Pelican
Printing Automation
Printing For Less
PrintOGraph
Print Quickness
Sonic Print
Spectratek
UVM Design
Vista Print
We Print Color
We Print for Less
Western Busienss Forms
Bargain Printing
Bidderbait
Innova Card ($5 per sample)
Ischosting
Multi-shape CD-ROM
WizBiz
XDR2 (US & CA)
DuraCard
EyeCatchers (UK)
Plastek Cards (US & CA)
Plastic Printers
Visual Products
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What person wouldn’t want business cards for life? Now you have a chance to get business cards for life. OverNightPrints.com, a company I have used to print business cards that I have designed before in the past, is running a contest. You get to be the designer of Jeremy Schoemaker, Mr. ShoeMoney will carry with him on his travels. This contest ends soon! So get creative with designs. I wonder if someone I know will win? I would like to enter the contest, but at this present time, I don’t have the extra time to come up with a design, but it would be a great prize: Business Cards For Life. If anyone enters this contest let me know you did. Don’t show me the design, just mention I entered it. If you were the winner, please let me know too. The winner should be selected on June 26, 2009. Good luck to whom ever may win this wonderful prize. Please be sure to tell your friends that might be designers, they might like to have this challenge.
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This is one almost took 4 years to get a hit!
MY HIT!.
I entered it in Knoxville, TN and this bill now has traveled to East Rutherford, NJ.
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