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		<title>The importance of gathering inspiration for your design project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You hire a professional graphic design studio to help design marketing materials for your business because you lack the time resources or knowledge on how to get it done on your own. Typically business owners ask the designer to come up with something, to wow them. Yet when the designs are presented they aren&#8217;t anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of budgeting and customer management</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I appreciate the break down of the unspoken part of a design project in the this blog post from imjustcreative.com, so many process blogs talk about the creative aspect only, not realizing that being a freelancer or a studio owner is more than just design, its how to manage the client, and making sure you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Target Audience Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the challenge of trying to get inside my customers head, but how am I suppose to do that&#60; if I knew what my customers where thinking when they would fill out the get estimate form or called the studio I wouldn&#8217;t ask them how may I help you.

I agree that we need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 types of Revisions Billable and Non Billable</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest issues any new project may have is the need for tweaks and revisions.

In the creative industry such as professional graphic design, there are ton of unknown variables and endless possibilities, but if the project is priced on a flat rate basis vs, a time and material basis, then these tweaks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where does bad design come from?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When designing there is a constant battle of creating and editing the design, the conflict can often times get out of control and I have to admit that many times I will judge how much the editor and creator will fight each other based on how much money the project is bringing to the studio.

For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding your customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know who your customers are? Do you know how they will react to your website?

Websites for your business can be costly to develop, and you don&#8217;t want to waste that money, getting in the head of your customers and delivering content and designs that will communicate to these customers is the biggest challenge.

I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website design guide for busy marketers &amp; business owners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some things to consider when starting a website design project.

1) You are experts in your company, and you will be responsible for delivering great content and how well the designs will speak to the target audience. Great design starts with great content, if you have limited resources on being able to generate this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website designer&#8217;s should learn what&#8217;s under the hood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this day and age with wordpress being so popular and &#8220;stable&#8221; and solutions like jquery, designers can appear to be a lot stronger than they really are.

A few years ago so much of the back-end programming that is so easy to get today was not in existence. Most anything you wanted to achieve you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what frustrates clients about designers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting read from the perspective of a client hiring a designer.

And I have to admit I am guilty of a few of these. but wanted to post this post, to help ensure I stear away from some of these items.

According to this post the 5 most frustrating comments a designer can make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Color inspirada for design projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Now everyone should be aware of adobe&#8217;s kulor. and the tools included in the adobe creative suite cs4.

But here is a list of color palette tools that are truly inspirational.

Particularly when you can upload an image and they will either show you what the color is made of, and/or have the ability to develop a palete that compliments [...]]]></description>
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