We were lucky enough to work with the Young Springfield Professional Network yet again to create marketing material for an upcoming event in the Springfield, Illinois area. The event is the Big Dam Film Festival. Here is the flyer that we designed for the event.

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I try to keep this blog for professional topics like design and marketing…However today is the start of baseball season. Ever since I was little this has been like a holiday to me. Opening Day means several things to me. First of all, as many of you know, I can’t stand cold weather. So to me this starts the unofficial start to warmer weather. Second of all, It’s baseball! I can’t tell you the hours of my life spent in front of the television living and dying with my team.

So tomorrow back to business…Today is baseball season!

It’s time for another Just For Fun Friday. Since March is finally ending I figured that I would create a calendar desktop for next month. It’s time for spring and I wanted to match whats going on outside on my desktop inside. So here is something to brighten up your desktop.

Time to get outside and enjoy.

If your monitor is 1024 x 768 click here then right click on the image and choose save as desktop.

If your monitor is 800 x 600 click here and right click on the image and choose save as desktop.

Making Contact. Encounters of the Third Kind.

The final category in our search for the perfect designer involves looking outside your current contacts. There are many ways to find a designer online. From the simple Google search to portfolio sites to just looking at the bottom of a website that you frequent.

This category is wide open. Much of it depends on what you want and when you want it. Most designers have a simple form to fill out right on their websites and most are more than happy to give you a quote without any kind of obligation. Making contact by filling out a quote form online you can find out many things about how that design firm works. For example, how fast do they get back with you. This is important because it shows how well a firm communicates. If it takes a week to get a quote back it might be an indicator that communication is not their strong suit. Is the quote personalized? If you get a price back in the form of a price sheet or a generic answer it might be an indicator of how the the project might be handled.

To receive a timely and personalized quote from Brian Petty Design click Here.

Hopefully you now feel informed enough to make contact and start that next great project.

Making Contact. Encounters of the Second Kind

Read Making Contact. Encounters of the First Kind by clicking here. Or read step one of the Starting A New Project series by clicking here.

So we are still looking for that perfect person on design firm to create that new project that is going to send your business into the stratosphere. Yesterday we looked at people that we know well, friends, family, that kid down the block that built his own Myspace page or whoever. Maybe we found the right person maybe not. Today is all about using those business connections that we all have made over the years in a different way.

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