The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- How to Get Your Metrics Really Working
In this episode of The Mainframe, Tony Clark and Chris Garrett discuss how to apply metrics processes that provide you with the information you need.Tags: Entrepreneur Marketing Brassballs
- 28 Graphic Design Podcast Homepages
Those who love design are willing to follow in the footsteps of greats who came before. Podcasts are an excellent way to pick up information from these greats – but the podcasts themselves are only audio. As designers we care deeply about the packaging and its shiny little red bow.
Tags: Design Inspiration
- 28 Graphic Design Podcast Homepages
Those who love design are willing to follow in the footsteps of greats who came before. Podcasts are an excellent way to pick up information from these greats – but the podcasts themselves are only audio. As designers we care deeply about the packaging and its shiny little red bow.
Tags: Design Inspiration
- Design Tips for Self-Publishing Your Independent Comic Book
Just as popular music cycles through different genres, comics have gone through different styles of narratives and illustrations to coincide with current events and pop culture, which may make it difficult when deciding how to design your ind…
- A Freelancer’s Guide to Getting Paid on Time
Getting paid on time can be a problem, however. In a survey conducted in the U.S. by Freelancers Union, 77% of members said they’d had problems being paid for their work.
Tags: Entrepreneur Freelance
- Fix All Your Facebook Mistakes With the Activity Log
You may not yet have stumbled across the Activity Log page in your wanderings around Facebook, but it’s worth exploring. It provides a blow-by-blow account of everything you do on the social network, and you can use it to take back likes or comments, find your favorite posts again, change your privacy settings and more.
Tags: Facebook
- What you should learn from the man who lost $600,000 on Facebook ads
Raaj Kapur Brar runs a publishing company called Fetopolis. His titles, like Fashion Style Mag, have millions of fans on Facebook. With Facebook working for him, he decided to double down and he launched a massive Facebook ad campaign.
He’d run a couple of tests, and they were showing the potential for 2–3x return on his Facebook ads. After 4 days, he’d spent over $600,000 on Facebook ads.
His return? Close to zero.