A great colour combination can be extremely pleasing. And equally as difficult to select. I love the colour combination of my logo.  It isn’t entirely my original creation. A graphic with these colours caught my eye. Turning to color-hex, I was able to get pretty close to those colours and, boom, the colour specs for…Read more

Instapage was my second favourite platform discovered in 2015.  Open your mind and you can use this beyond its intended use as a landing page.  I have created invitations and birthday messages for my friends. For your business, you can whip up what looks like a lovely web page at a fraction of the time!…Read more

Who hasn’t gotten swept away with searches to secure a social media handle? This can be time consuming and ineffective if you are just searching randomly.  That’s when I turn to KnowEm.  It allows you to check for the use of your brand, product, personal name or username instantly on over 500 popular and emerging social…Read more

Notational velocity: an application that stores and retrieves notes. If there is one tool I use every day and recommend to all of my clients, it is Notational Velocity. Introduced to this at Avaaz, where my computer was my office and I used no paper, this became indispensable. Need to jot down a quick note,…Read more

Notice the newsletters, blogs or Instagram posts that arrive looking like a professional glossy? Do some just pop? I wondered how busy solopreneurs had the time, funds or expertise to be creating such impressive graphics.  So, I asked.  The answer was Canva! Canva is still my favourite creative tool. It is the closest I come to feeling like a…Read more

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