Immigrants are a powerful force for good, adding their different insights, cultures, talents, and innovations to whatever country they move to. These gifts often help to shape culture, create new opportunities, and solve problems that non-immigrants may not notice or...
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Cultural Competence and Marketing
It’s important to understand your target audience with every marketing campaign, but that importance grows even more significant when you are planning a multicultural marketing initiative. Whether you’re working on a multinational project or simply trying to reach...
Top 10 Mocktails to Boost Your Creativity
While some artists swear by alcohol to grease the wheels of their creativity, it isn’t always the right ingredient for your unique project or circumstance. Mocktails, on the other hand, can be a great way to boost creativity and get in the mood to make something...
Just Keep Swimming
When the world gets hectic, keeping a positive attitude can feel a lot like swimming against the current. Things that used to come easily suddenly require more and more energy, building up over time to contribute to struggles like anxiety and burnout. While we can’t...
21 Things Every Creative Should Do At Least Once
Whether your day job revolves around creativity or it’s more of a hobby for you right now, being creative is a part of who you are. If you’re someone who thrives off being creative, here are 30 things you should try doing at least once. [smartvideo...
Create Impactful Content Through Humor
People consume more content today than ever before, often seeing thousands of advertisements per day in addition to whatever they’re choosing to watch or listen to. Because our culture is so saturated with media, it has become increasingly challenging to stand out...
Getting On The Same Page As Your Clients
One of the best lessons I've learned from my designer journey is the importance of getting on the same page as your customers. Being able to truly understand them can make the difference between success and failure. While experience is the best teacher, I can share...
Rethinking Website Lifespan
You've probably heard it before: websites supposedly come with a built-in expiration date, usually around two or three years from launch or the last major redesign. Businesses buy into this idea, dutifully scheduling revamps like they’re restocking milk about to go...
5 Tips to Make You a Better Copywriter
One of the best things about being a copywriter is that you can always become better—sometimes, it’s just hard to figure out how. You’ve already read the books, taken the courses, and written some copy of your own, so now what? How can you keep improving? Here are...
Logos Aren’t Everything: How Logos, Branding, and Marketing Intersect for Business Success
When you’re in the thick of it, creating or recreating your business’s logo might feel like one of the most important projects you will ever work on. Of course, logos matter, but they aren’t the only thing that drives business success—or lack thereof. In this article,...
Inflation, Rising Costs, and Raising Prices
Almost every day now, our social media feeds and news sources are full of stories about how inflation and rising costs are impacting our economy at large as well as individual people and businesses. As the basic costs of running your business rise alongside day-to-day...
3 Teaching Roadblocks and How to Overcome Them
Everyone has skills they might want to teach the people around them, but how to teach is an entirely different skill set. Things that seem straightforward with years of practice may confuse beginners, and some people have trouble translating industry jargon that’s...