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10 Most Creative Entrepreneurs in the United States
10 Most Creative Entrepreneurs in the United States

Who are your business idols? The people who inspire you to get up every day and create interesting, new products and services for your customers? The people who paved the way for your business? I don’t know who your rockstars are, but I want to share 10 of mine with...

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Should I Join the Anti-Smartphone Revolution?
Should I Join the Anti-Smartphone Revolution?

You may have heard about the dumb phone revolution or the anti-smartphone movement and thought, “That sounds intriguing!” This article is written for you. If you’ve ever wondered what it’d be like to spend less time on the internet, ditch your smartphone (or not use a...

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Matcha Design Takes Gold at 20th Annual SIAA
Matcha Design Takes Gold at 20th Annual SIAA

Advertisers in the service industry covet Service Industry Advertising (SIA) Awards. In 2023, Matcha Design took home ten SIAA awards. Though the SIAA received around 1,200 entries this year, only 258 were selected with the prestigious honor of winning. Matcha Design...

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7 Challenges to Becoming Effective
7 Challenges to Becoming Effective

If you haven’t read it, you’ve at least heard of the best-selling book, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey. The book has sold over 30 million copies since its 1989 debut and is extremely popular with business owners. Though the ideas in the book...

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Branding Plan Basics
Branding Plan Basics

A branding plan is a vital first step in building your brand. Every “brick” of branding that you place for your company will be built upon the branding strategy. But what if you’re at a loss about how to develop a plan in the first place? In this article, we’ll cover...

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Is ChatGPT a Modern Wonder?
Is ChatGPT a Modern Wonder?

ChatGPT was launched at the end of November 2022. It erupted onto the scene, taking a little under a month to elicit a strong response from supporters and dissenters alike. In this article, we’ll attempt to shed light on what ChatGPT is, giving a backdrop on some of...

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Elevate Your Profits With Good Design
Elevate Your Profits With Good Design

Sometimes, I think about those brands that have become completely iconic. The ones where you could show their logo to anyone in any country and they would immediately know the name of the brand. And I wonder, how much of that company’s great success came from their...

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Psychological Tricks to Improve Your Business
Psychological Tricks to Improve Your Business

The human mind is powerful - and as a business owner, there are some psychological tricks you can use to improve your business. In this article, we’ll share customer service tips and mental techniques that will keep you focused on improvement. Read on to learn more!...

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Top 25 Useful Things To Do Between Christmas & New Year
Top 25 Useful Things To Do Between Christmas & New Year

The days between Christmas and New Year are fantastic for helping us refocus, reconnect with our families and lives, and reflect on the year. There are plenty of useful things you can do during this time to get the most out of this experience - so here are our top 25...

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30 Interview Questions for a Creative Team
30 Interview Questions for a Creative Team

If you’re in a position of leadership at a design company, chances are you’ll have to interview other prospective members of your creative team at some point. In this article, we’ll go over some of the best interview questions we’ve found. We’ll cover basic interview...

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7 Challenges to Becoming Effective

7 Challenges to Becoming Effective

If you haven’t read it, you’ve at least heard of the best-selling book, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey. The book has sold over 30 million copies since its 1989 debut and is extremely popular with business owners. Though the ideas in the book...

read more
Branding Plan Basics

Branding Plan Basics

A branding plan is a vital first step in building your brand. Every “brick” of branding that you place for your company will be built upon the branding strategy. But what if you’re at a loss about how to develop a plan in the first place? In this article, we’ll cover...

read more
Is ChatGPT a Modern Wonder?

Is ChatGPT a Modern Wonder?

ChatGPT was launched at the end of November 2022. It erupted onto the scene, taking a little under a month to elicit a strong response from supporters and dissenters alike. In this article, we’ll attempt to shed light on what ChatGPT is, giving a backdrop on some of...

read more
Elevate Your Profits With Good Design

Elevate Your Profits With Good Design

Sometimes, I think about those brands that have become completely iconic. The ones where you could show their logo to anyone in any country and they would immediately know the name of the brand. And I wonder, how much of that company’s great success came from their...

read more
Psychological Tricks to Improve Your Business

Psychological Tricks to Improve Your Business

The human mind is powerful - and as a business owner, there are some psychological tricks you can use to improve your business. In this article, we’ll share customer service tips and mental techniques that will keep you focused on improvement. Read on to learn more!...

read more
Top 25 Useful Things To Do Between Christmas & New Year

Top 25 Useful Things To Do Between Christmas & New Year

The days between Christmas and New Year are fantastic for helping us refocus, reconnect with our families and lives, and reflect on the year. There are plenty of useful things you can do during this time to get the most out of this experience - so here are our top 25...

read more
30 Interview Questions for a Creative Team

30 Interview Questions for a Creative Team

If you’re in a position of leadership at a design company, chances are you’ll have to interview other prospective members of your creative team at some point. In this article, we’ll go over some of the best interview questions we’ve found. We’ll cover basic interview...

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Christmas Marketing for Business Services

Christmas Marketing for Business Services

It’s easy to find holiday marketing tips for eCommerce businesses. There are all kinds of ways to repackage or bring awareness to products, but for business services, it gets a bit more tricky. After all, what you have to offer isn’t something you can simply hand...

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The Power of Gratitude in Business

The Power of Gratitude in Business

“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” ~ David Steindl-Rast Practicing the art of gratitude is an ancient tradition that sparks joy and incites the power of ‘enough’. Happiness is a common side effect of continual thankfulness:...

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How to Filter Your Knowledge

How to Filter Your Knowledge

Today, we have more access to information than ever before. We no longer have to visit a library to find new information - we have ready access to information on our home computers and the phones in our pockets. That said, we also have more opportunities to put...

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True Productivity

True Productivity

Everyone’s got their own definition of what productivity means. As a business owner, how do you gauge productivity, and what priorities do you hold onto? In this blog post, we’ll explore the meaning of true productivity and provide some strategies to help boost your...

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More Than an Office Dog

More Than an Office Dog

At Matcha Design we are known for our award winning design projects and creative vision excellence. However, there is one key Matcha Design team member we have not yet introduced and would be a travesty not to highlight. We are pleased to officially introduce Pancake,...

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FEDEL Music Photo Shoot with Matcha Design

FEDEL Music Photo Shoot with Matcha Design

This week Matcha Design had the opportunity to shoot press photos for FEDEL, an Oklahoma based Christian Hip-Hop artist. We needed to capture simple, yet engaging photos for the FEDEL to use for tour posters, social media, press opportunities and other collateral. We...

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BlueSpeed Finds a New Face

BlueSpeed Finds a New Face

Tulsa, OK - August 29, 2012 - Blue Speed LLC is one of the leading providers of home and commercial automation and lighting control design in Tulsa and northeast Oklahoma. The wanted to take their brand to the next level and reflect their passion for combining...

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Chris Lo Invited to Judge 2012 W³ Awards

Chris Lo Invited to Judge 2012 W³ Awards

Tulsa, OK - July 27, 2012 - Chris Lo, President & CEO of visionary design firm Matcha Design, has been invited to serve on the judging panel for the 2012 W³ Awards in the categories of website, online marketing, mobile and video. “I am so honored to be a part of...

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Rhema Bible Church Christmas Lights Extravaganza!

Rhema Bible Church Christmas Lights Extravaganza!

Since 1982, the Rhema Christmas Lights Display has become a main attraction for folks around Tulsa and Oklahoma every year. James Shelby, the creator and supervisor of the electrical department of Rhema, orchestrates this amazing project year after year and the size...

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Launching of the New Nian En Church Introduction Video

Launching of the New Nian En Church Introduction Video

Matcha Design is excited to announce the new introduction video for Nian En Church, a Chinese evangelical church, located in Hong Kong. We have done many videos for churches in the United States in the past, but this is the first one we have done for a client in...

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Matcha Design Wins Silver at the 2015 W3 Awards

Matcha Design Wins Silver at the 2015 W3 Awards

Prestigious awards were once again given at the recently held 2015 W3 Awards that was powered, sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA.) Regarded as an award platform where creative excellence on the web as well as the people behind...

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Matcha Design Receives Six DesignFirms Awards for 2015

Matcha Design Receives Six DesignFirms Awards for 2015

Matcha Design recently collected six prestigious awards from DesignFirms in both their Web Design and Graphic Design categories. The DesignFirms™ awards showcase some of the best work on the web from designers and developers from around the world, elevating the...

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