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There is nothing standing in your customers’ way when it comes to shopping around for the best pricing and value. In times gone by, you know, pre Internet when you had to walk to school through the snow and bread cost a mere 5 cents, you could charge more and who would ever know? I mean, who was going to trudge through the snow to the next store to see if your pricing was competitive?

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Google research shows that consumers are feeling pretty good about the upcoming 2010 holiday season and at this point last year 44% of consumers had already started their holiday shopping.1 It does seem that the push for holiday sales comes earlier each year, and you may not be personally thrilled to see Christmas ornaments for sale before you’ve even had your last summer BBQ. However, if you’re running a business, online or off, don’t delay getting your holiday campaigns going because when those early shoppers start shopping, you want to be there for them.

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Here are 5 free vector sets for you to use online, or for your print designs.

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How can social media help you? Social media helps you build an online community, or as Seth Godin would put it, a tribe. Social media channels give you the opportunity to ask for opinions, converse, invite, share, and contribute. It also helps create avenues for avid customers to help spread the word about your awesome products and services. It can be overwhelming though, so where do you begin?

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Direct mail strategies not only still work, but when combined with your online efforts, can make for some very powerful marketing. A Channel Preference Study by Exact Target showed that direct mail influences 76% of Internet users to purchase a product or service online.¹ So, here are some tips for creating effective direct mail strategies for today’s online driven world.

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To effectively build your brand support on Twitter, it’s important to remember that social media is all about multi-directional conversations, not about one-way blasting. So, think of it like being on an elevator. What would you want to say about you, or your company, as part of the conversation, knowing that your listener has the capacity to hit the door-open button if you get too self-centered? Here are some guidelines for brand building on Twitter.

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I have collected 8 online photo editing websites that can be useful for simple to advanced editing, from red-eye removal or even complicated layer masking techniques.These photo editing websites can also be your back up just in case you are on a business trip and you don’t have your fancy copy of Photoshop to create and present an idea to a client – or maybe you just need to edit some summer photos to upload to Facebook. Either way, check it out and have fun!

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Eight track players, slide rules and 45 rpm records have all become subjects of trivia questions as a result of new technology. Are printed telephone directories, newspapers and fax machines next?

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Did you know that there are four times the number of cell phones in the world compared to PCs?¹ And that 20% of U.S. households have gone mobile-only for their phone lines? There’s no doubt about it, mobile and smartphone users are growing monthly.

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I have collected 10 surreal photo manipulation tutorials that can help you to get your ideas flowing. Have fun and be creative in painting your dream world!

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Labor Day is right around the corner, do you have plans? Time to plan your end-of-summer celebration! As a perpetual-yet-purely-non-professional party planner myself, I always find grandiose new ideas I want to try or delicious little new foods I want to make for my guests, but I always run into the same problem… I run out of time. Some of you might be saying, ‘Candie, how can you run out of time when you plan each event months in advance!?!’ LOL, I say this to myself every time too! I’ve found that it’s not the planning that needs more time, it’s the preparation, and there’s not much wiggle room there, since most is done the day of a party. So I’ve learned to simplify each idea into under 3 steps and under 10 minutes, with easy instructions that I can delegate.

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In today’s market, there are more options than ever for sharing and/or making money with your photos and art. If you’re looking for a breakdown of different ways to share your photos online, a good place to start for basic information is the Wikipedia Photo Sharing page.

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As a graphic designer, I am always trying to find the balance between my creativity and the strict guidelines that Print Service Providers (PSPs) require. Basically, I do not want to spend a lot of time on creating the perfect printed piece for my client, and then have to compromise the design so that it can be printed.

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Here are 8 free vector files for you to use online, or for your print designs.

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Back to School Means Fundraising

Next Day Flyers has a partnership rewards program for schools and universities.  Schools and other educational institutions select us as their official online printer and we provide a special landing page, unique to that school. Then associated families, friends, alumni, and staff, raise funds simply by ordering the printing they need through the special page. We provide, at no cost, the online means and technical support for the program to succeed.

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