Sep
11

Win Prizes By Helping Us Win The CB2 Contest! We all win!

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Yesterday I shared with you that my wife and I have entered our home in the CB2 The Selby Is In Your Place contest and asked you to help us by voting for our entry. Amazingly, thanks to your help, we have reached 204 votes in about 36 hours, placing us in the number 35 position and in the finals (as of 6:00am PST). We are so grateful to all who have voted and encouraged others to vote. Some of you even posted our entry…

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Sep
10

Time To Find Out Who Your REAL Social Media Friends Are

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I have spent the last year and a half utilizing social media to make connections, brand my business, share resources and much more. I have discovered amazing people, communities and networks, and I have learned more from the experience than I think I ever have from anything else in my life in such a short time.

At the time of this writing I have over 11,000 followers on Twitter and over 1,100 friends on Facebook. The numbers are relatively insignificant to me in most…

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Sep
8

Should I Write For Free For Me or Get Paid to Post Elsewhere?

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This is a little bit of a different post than my usual fare, in that I am asking for your advice. Over the past several weeks I have been approached by a number of design-related blogs requesting that I write articles for them. In most cases I am already a fan of these blogs, subscribe to their RSS feeds, read them regularly and I’m extremely honored by their requests. Also, in most cases, they are offering to pay me for my contributions. This has…

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Aug
28

Weekend Reading: The 419 Design, Freelancing, Social Media & SEO Links I Tweeted This Week (8/21-8/27)

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Back again by popular demand. Well, okay. Only 3 or 4 people expressed a desire to see this series continue, but who am I to deprive them? And yes, I counted. 419 links in all my favorite interests – web and graphic design, freelancing, social media, SEO and more! Hopefully there are some tasty little tidbits of info here just for you.

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Aug
21

400+ Design, SEO, Social Media & Freelance Links I Tweeted This Past Week (8/14-8/20)

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Did you look away from Twitter for a second and miss something I tweeted this past week? Not finding much to read on the weekend and looking for a list of current resources? Well here it is! Almost every day I tweet the day’s most recently published articles and blog posts regarding design, SEO, social media, freelancing, and technology news that I find relevant for my own life as well as those that I think others might find interesting or beneficial. Now I’ve taken…

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