Category: Ideas
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(free) Fonts, Photos and Vectors for Graphic Designers
Starting out as an online graphics designer can be expensive. You need good graphics design software, stock photos, the right font and great graphics. All of these resources take time to collect and cost money to purchase. Here are YMB Properties we want to help simplify you’re life. We’ve collected together our favourite free graphics,…
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15 Essential Graphics Tools for Online Designers
Great design is a process of hard work and inspiration. There are no shortcuts, but technology offers you plenty of tools to save time and increase productivity. Of course the hard part is actually finding the software that fulfills your needs. Over the course of the last year I’ve created an online toolbox, composed of…
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How to Develop a Youtube Content Marketing Strategy
Have you ever wondered how a YouTube channel gets so many subscribers and generates thousands of viewers everday, like Smosh, PrankvsPrank or many other top YouTube creators? Is there actually a secret recipe for great content for YouTube? Or is it only the matter of unique, informative and entertaining content? These are all questions I…
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Launching Your YouTube Campaign
As anyone who is involved in Internet Marketing knows, 2015 is the year of video advertising. With increasing Internet speeds, this shift to video advertising is a natural development. According to a 2013 report by eMarketer (yes, with a name like eMarketer the firm certainly has a bias) 75% of ad agency executives view video…
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5 Tips on Maximizing Your Tweets Engagement
Have you read about a movie studio that used Twitter to launch trailers and had great success? Feel free to read more about the success story here. What I found interesting about it is that they set time aside to think about a compelling campaign, analyze their target audience and consider how they can optimize…
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5 Tips for Your Facebook Ad Campaign
Facebook has become the most widely-used social platform to date. It’s also the most popular social platform for marketers, and because of that there are also countless local business pages on Facebook. According to Facebook there are 40 million active small business Pages on Facebook. A lot of businesses are trying to do Facebook ads,…
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How to Double Your Rate as a Freelancer
It’s always hard to value your own worth. As a web designer, a graphics designer or even a writer, there is a good chance you are charging too little to your clients. There will come a time when you will need to consider increasing or even doubling your basic rate. Of course you want to…
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17 Sources of Inspiration for A Web Designer
A web designer, same like any designers, can have those rainy days. Your brain’s freezes, ideas move around your head like treacle and nothing seems to happen (sounds a lot like a hangover). At these moments, it is important to refresh yourself (and your brain) and use other people’s ideas for inspiration. Yet these sites…
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7 Things A Web Designer Should Know
Being a web designer is actually a promising job. User experience is something that will always need to be developed. Regardless if you are new to the field or have been a web designer for some time, here is a list of seven things every web designer should know. Let’s start! 1. Get out there…
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Why You Should Write Your Own Book and How to Do it
Are you a book lover? How many books do you read in a month? Some people read 4 books a month – as for me still understandable, it means one per week (that is beyond my capability). I can barely manage one book a month. Still. While some people love to read books you might…