Monthly Archives: July 2008

How Do You Measure The Success Of Your Blog?

If you're a savvy blogger already then you'll probably be obsessed by statistics such as the number of unique visitors to your blog, your subscriber numbers, the number of comments generated by each post and the number of track backs & links your posts attract. If you're a novice blogger or thinking of starting up a ...

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Do You Think Marketing Is A Dirty Word Or Are You A Marketing Whore?

[Excuse the crudeness of the title but I really couldn't think of an equally suitable word that worked] Read the following questions and tick either A or B for whichever statement best describes you... A - You feel passionately about what you do and believe that people who need you, will find you. B - You feel passionately ...

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Back To Form…And How

She's back, yes you can't keep her down for long...even with a stomach parasite, multiple mosquito bites (how on earth?!?...it's winter here), a new full-time job and running another business. Yet despite all of this, I'm out of my funk and back on fighting form...and about bloody time, if I do say so myself. First of ...

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Aaagh, I’m In A Funk!

This morning I was in a major funk. Nothing seemed positive, everything was crap and I had to gee myself up to talk to two clients on the phone for hours. To top it all off, it's still raining here in Cape Town (5th day straight) which is as depressing as hell and makes me want ...

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Look Before You Leap (Into The World of Entrepreneurship)

Can you remember a time when you worked for someone else and thought to yourself, "I cannot wait to work for myself, then I won't have to deal with my nagging boss, annoying clients or [fill in the blank]"? And then you launched into the world of entrepreneurship and running your own business and now you ...

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We’re About To P*ss Graphic Designers Off; But Who Cares?

Despite the view amongst some graphic designers, that lower cost logos and cheap logo sites devalue design, we at Project Woodward HQ *know* that there's a market for them. Unfortunately in graphic design circles, what we're about to launch is tantamount to sacrilege and supposedly devalues the whole design industry. But if you're a designer and you're ...

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