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How a Professional Profile Photo Can Help Your Business

Can you believe that just a few years ago, HR managers had no clue what prospective employees looked like until they walked into the interview? However, nowadays it is so easy to find out what someone looks like by searching their name and looking at their profiles on social network sites. In fact, statistics show that HR managers search out your LinkedIn account and let’s face it those who have a more professional headshot are more likely to get the job. The bottom-line is, if you don’t have a professional photo of yourself, than now is the time to get one.

Having a professional photo shoot doesn’t have to always mean having straight-faced, suit-and-tie, black and white picture

June 5th, 2012|Branding and Identity|

Time Saving Business Tips: How you can work faster

Have you ever caught yourself wishing there were more hours in the day so you could accomplish more? Well unfortunately for us, that’s never going to happen but there is something you can do to stretch the day to it’s fullest potential. Rather than make the work day longer just become faster at what you do. Now depending on what industry of business you are in you may find some things easier to do faster than others. But if you, like us graphic and web designers rely on being proficient on your computer to communicate, email, create presentations, than learning the shortcut commands on your keyboard will save you hours in the long-run! One of the things

May 31st, 2012|Uncategorized|

The Best Graphic Design Tutorials

Whether you’re an experienced professional graphic designer or just beginning your way into the industry, tutorials are always a great way to raise your intellect. Photoshop and other software knowledge is something you will definitely need to know if you plan on making it big. One of the easiest ways to get started with learning new graphic design tricks and tips is to follow online guides and graphic design tutorials.

Here are a few of our favorite sites that the tutorials are easy to follow and provide both basic and advance skills for the designer in you. Hopefully they help to inspire and better yet, help build your design skills!

Lynda.com

The lynda.com Online Training Library is a educational platform

April 24th, 2012|Uncategorized|

Top 10 Websites for Designers

Sometimes even web designers need to check out other websites for ideas. Check out these Top 10 Websites for Designers listed in a recent article of HOW Magazine!

Jessica Fortner Illustration: Portfolio of Toronto-based illustrator Jessica Fortner, who is co-founder, editor and designer of the online arts magazine Squidface & The Meddler. A design enthusiast, she is particularly fond of sustainable design, interface design and typography.

Ruud van Eijk Design: The portfolio of Ruud van Eijk, a young designer from the Netherlands, has a frenetic energy and outrageous color palette.

Klas Fahlen: Swedish illustrator Klas Fahlen combines a vintage sensibility with contemporary style.

Ten Paces and Draw: Ten Paces and Draw is a blog about collaboration and illustration that features sketch

March 28th, 2012|Moonstruck Marketing|

Top Reasons Why You Need a Graphic Designer

Thinking about creating a new brochure or letterhead for your business? Or maybe you want to update your current business cards or website? Well don’t waste your time and money by doing it yourself, why not hire a professional! Below is a list of some top reasons why you need a graphic designer.

A graphic designer saves you time and money!

As a professional, you know how to do your job well. However, creativity and design may not be your area of expertise. That’s where a graphic designer comes in! Not only will they be able to do the job in a much shorter time than you normally could, but they will get the job done right! In the

March 27th, 2012|Branding and Identity, Moonstruck Marketing|

Marketing Tips For Every Start-Up Business

In recent times, many people have stepped away from working for someone else and have decided to begin a business of their own. Owning and operating your own start-up business is something many people strive for yet many face obstacles along the way. Although the concept may come easily to you, there are many hurdles to jump before success can be achieved. Here are some tips to follow so you can start up your own business and achieve your goals and ultimately your dream business.

Go Where Your Customers Are

While trade shows, social media coverage and other outlets are important; nothing beats face-to-face customer interaction. If you’re using social media and your customers are too, make sure you’re

March 24th, 2012|Moonstruck Marketing|

Top Graphic Design Blogging Mistakes You Can Avoid

A blog can be an extremely helpful tool for your business if you use it the right way. It can direct viewers to your website, showcase your new products and services, and help grow new customers and revenue. Making sure your blog is helping you and not actually hurting you is a simple task as long as you avoid some commonly seen blogging mistakes. Here is a list of some mistakes I’ve seen as a graphic design blogger and how you can avoid making the same mistake twice like Help your blog to be successful by avoiding these top 4 blogging mistakes:

Random Blogging –The most successful blogs put out new content two to three times a week

January 17th, 2012|Moonstruck Marketing|

Graphic Design Services You Can’t Be Without

When it comes to your companies marketing needs you want to work with a company that has all the best services to help grow your business. The top graphic design agencies can offer you more than just a few items to get you going. You want someone who can give you a professional, standout new look to help drive customers and revenue. At Moonstruck Marketing Group we offer a wide variety of graphic design and advertising services. We also provide website design, corporate identity packages, and printing services for all your marketing needs.

Corporate Identity and Logo Design

Corporate Identity and logo design target to deliver your business message through an image, symbol or mark. The corporate identity creates

December 15th, 2011|Branding and Identity, Moonstruck Marketing|

Why WordPress Will Work For Your Business Website

Let’s face it, building a website can be a tricky thing especially if you don’t really know exactly what your doing. So one of the main reasons why I love WordPress sites is that not only does it make websites easy to build, but it’s simple to manage and my clients can make changes to it without needing hours and hours of training. WordPress was designed to make the management of your site easy and that is exactly what it does. Because it’s so easy to use it has climbed to the top of the ladder and there are now over 20 million websites that that are WordPress based. WordPress websites have endless capabilities that allow you

November 17th, 2011|Branding and Identity, Moonstruck Marketing|

Time-Saving Design Tips

As a graphic designer, there never seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything we need done. And as our To-Do lists get longer and longer and deadlines approach we’re always looking for ways to do things faster and make the day easier. One of the biggest ways to simply save on time is experience. The more experience you have, the more proficient and more comfortable you are working. By spending the time mastering your skills you end up developing timesaving methods and have encountered mistakes and complications that you now know how to avoid.

So even if you’re not as experienced as you’d like to be, here are some more important tips to help

October 6th, 2011|Branding and Identity, Graphic Design, Moonstruck Marketing|