The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- A Special Forces Officer Teaches You 5 Secrets To Overcoming Adversity
Here’s what a Special Forces officer can teach you about hanging in there and overcoming adversity when things get difficult in your life.Tags: Entrepreneur Leadership Brassballs
- Nine surprisingly lengthy tips for cutting and editing your copy
Probably the most common copywriting issue that people want to address on our courses is how to cut copy.
‘We have so much we want to say but our content’s way too long and clunky already.’
‘How we can say what we need to say in half as many words?’
Reducing wordcount matters because the online space is a tough reading environment.
Here’s a quote from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think:
Tags: Copywriting
- 8 Self-Publishing Secrets For Designing An eBook Cover
This isn’t just a topic of vanity and of having a “professional looking cover”, though. It’s a truly important part of your self-publishing journey.
A good ebook cover is a visual and emotional glance into the contents of your writing. But if you design your own ebook cover, there are some important things you need to take into consideration.
Tags: eprdctn selfpub epub indiepub amwriting
- You don’t get to play the gender card to promote piss-poor writing
When you use “People are only attacking me because I’m a woman” as a marketing tool, you hurt every other female professional out there on the Internet. A tweet today got me irrationally, stupidly, Peter Cohen-levels of angry. Namely, this tweet by Qu…
- The Pros and Cons of Self-Employment
Now that I am closing in on my first year of being in business for myself, I have been reflecting on my future. I have been taking a hard look at the pros and cons of being self-employed, and while, ultimately (spoiler alert!) I can’t ever see myself going back to working for someone else now, it has been an interesting last year, to say the least.
First, let’s look at the pros, since this is why I get up every morning.
- Life360 CEO tells others how to beat patent trolls in three not-so-easy steps
Life360’s Chris Hulls to his fellow founders and VCs: “Please don’t settle.“His musings were published on TechCrunch in an article titled “I Beat a Patent Troll and You Can Too.” Hulls’ case got a fair bit of attention start…
- Life360 CEO tells others how to beat patent trolls in three not-so-easy steps
Life360’s Chris Hulls to his fellow founders and VCs: “Please don’t settle.“His musings were published on TechCrunch in an article titled “I Beat a Patent Troll and You Can Too.” Hulls’ case got a fair bit of attention start…
- Introverts Love Facebook and Extroverts Hate It. Here’s Why.
Do you love Facebook? Do you enjoy getting a glimpse into the daily lives of your family and friends? If you do, there’s an excellent chance that you’re an introvert. If you hate Facebook, you could be an extrovert.
Tags: Facebook
- The 5 Great Advantages of Being a Solopreneur
Have you been at work, dreaming of being your own boss? If you have, you definitely want to explore these 5 advantages of being a solopreneur.Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance