Category Archives: graphic design

Inexpensive Tools to Help Grow Your Sales or Business—Introducing AppSumo

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Rod Schwartz

If you’re an entrepreneurial salesperson, marketer, or business operator, you’re going to love this! AppSumo is a clearinghouse for a ton of inexpensive and highly useful digital tools for sales and marketing, to help you expand your effectiveness! Here are 5 … Continue reading →

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Professional Voice-over and Narration for…Five Bucks?

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Rod Schwartz

The post at Radio Sales Cafe, from a Chicago-area radio guy, read: “5 DOLLARS! Check me out on FIVERR” Intrigued and a bit skeptical, I clicked on the link. Sure enough, there he was. Chicago-area radio announcer will cut your … Continue reading →

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Dazzling Them With Brilliance in Moscow, ID

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Rod Schwartz

You can’t drive by this thing without noticing it.  And that, of course, was the whole idea: make it BIG, COLORFUL, and IN YOUR FACE!!  The first time I saw it, I thought, “WOW! Brilliant marketing, Tri-State!!” Each side of … Continue reading →

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Jelly Bean Branding

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Rod Schwartz

Betcha didn’t know that April 22nd was Jelly Bean Day. Or that jelly beans have been around since at least the time of the Civil War. As kids, we ate our fill of them every Easter season.  Then they’d pretty … Continue reading →

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Context Matters

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Rod Schwartz

Whenever I meet with a new advertising client or prospect, one of the first items of business is to come to a meeting of the minds concerning the singular importance of: The Message. What-the-ad-says has more to do with the … Continue reading →

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