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How to Set Up a Dedicated VoIP Number for Your Business
Keep in mind: This article is intended primarily for a U.S. audience. Service availability in other countries is not guaranteed. Email is a wonderful invention, but sometimes you need the...
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Getting Clients to Embrace Fresh Ideas
The internet is full of brand new proof of concepts and ideas just waiting to be implemented on exciting new projects. Actually getting the approval to use these features is another story entirely....
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When Clients Take Too Much Design Control
“Looks great. Let’s just move the main content down and change the font to a brighter red and Papyrus…” Have you ever dealt with a client who suddenly flipped on “design mode” mid-project? The...
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4 Rules for Pitching to Offline Clients
Being based online has its share of advantages. Clients are plentiful and easy to come by, your company can operate from anywhere in the world, and with enough promotional efforts you can easily...
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How to Win Clients When You’re the Underdog
A management professor once told me that in business, the only thing you need to know is one special shape. This meant absolutely nothing to me until he began to show me how every fundamental business...
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Fundamentals for a Kick-Ass Creative Company
This post has a little background to its inspiration. At the start of Summer 2009, we started Officeal as a way to showcase the offices of companies that “get” creative culture. The numbers are slowly...
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Client Rejection – Why No Means Nothing
We’ve all had it happen before – you put a ton of work into a fantastic idea, proposal, and/or meeting with an awesome potential client and it goes swimmingly. You’re excited, they’re excited, you’re...
View ArticleFlavors of Customer Service
Talking as a Service I never liked the term customer service. It’s become a buzzword that describes any type of customer communication. I’m all for the concept, and companies like Zappos are an...
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Just Finish It
Your New Mission Just to be clear, this isn’t a call for mediocre work. I’m sure that we can all think of “234 Reasons Why Rushed Design is Bad”, and this article is certainly not an excuse for it....
View ArticleGuidelines for Small Project Pricing
Intro Over the past few years, I’ve had the pleasure of working on a lot of small gigs as a result of my plugin, Supersized, and our company, One Mighty Roar. I currently average about 3-4 small...
View ArticleRecruiting Engineers Who Aren’t Scared to Talk to People
We believe to be a good citizen of the developer and open source community is to hire good engineers for One Mighty Roar. This means engineers that can build utility apps like Lantern, connected device...
View ArticleHow to Balance a Startup With Parenthood
One of the common startup myths is that single 20-somethings are the most successful entrepreneurs and that they are the demographic that starts the most companies. Zach and Sam may have started One...
View ArticleWhy Your Agency Experience is Perfect for Startups
You got hired because you have a passion for brands and were able to talk intelligently to the client about Snapchat. You always thought you’d be doing something that had an impact on consumers....
View ArticleFind Your Five Minute Culture
If I spent five minutes alone with a random person in your company, would I get the right impression? Earlier this week I spoke on a panel about company culture. Culture is a whale of a topic, but this...
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Just Finish It
Your New Mission Just to be clear, this isn’t a call for mediocre work. I’m sure that we can all think of “234 Reasons Why Rushed Design is Bad”, and this article is certainly not an excuse for it....
View ArticleRecruiting Engineers Who Aren’t Scared to Talk to People
We believe to be a good citizen of the developer and open source community is to hire good engineers for One Mighty Roar. This means engineers that can build utility apps like Lantern, connected device...
View ArticleFind Your Five Minute Culture
If I spent five minutes alone with a random person in your company, would I get the right impression? Earlier this week I spoke on a panel about company culture. Culture is a whale of a topic, but this...
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