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Everyone is always talking about how summertime is the time of year when you get to kick back and relax, but not if you're in charge of marketing! Getting your marketing mojo together and keeping yourself out there is just as hot of a topic during the summer as it is at any other time of year. Just to help you out a bit, we put together a few ideas to keep your summer marketing as cool and delicious as an ice cream cone.

Everyone at some point has had to give a presentation. They're a lot of work aren't they? And good golly the jitters that come along with having to actually present the thing in front of real human being people types! What if something goes wrong? What do you do when the microphone stops working or your PowerPoint slides go MIA? Do you run away screaming or do you handle it like a boss? You handle it like a boss. Of course you do. But just in case, since we find ourselves doing a lot of presentations around here, we've got a few tips for you anyway.

We completely understand. Not everyone knows about graphic design. But that's ok because if they did, there would be no need for us and that would make us super sad. We're quite glad people need us because we like what we do very much. In fact, we like it so much that our designers got together and created a list of things they want the world to know about graphic design.

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It doesn't matter if you think Kim Kardashian is a frivolous cheese ball or if you worship her every breath. You cannot deny that a person with 31 million Twitter followers and 29.9 million Instagram followers has made some great moves to make hers one of the biggest social media presences out there. She even has an app that has been downloaded over 28 million times. Impressive, right? Here's how you can keep up with Kardashian.

1) Be authentic and stay true to your brand

So you've created a brilliant blog post and you're ready to share it with the world, but it's missing something. It's missing that thing that will grab a viewer's attention and make them want to read. What you need is a great image to go with your post, but you can't just go out into the interwebs and use whatever you find. You have to have good Internet etiquette and that means knowing where to find images that you can use either for free, or that are royalty-free or under Creative Commons license terms. If you don't follow the rules, you might find yourself in a big steaming bowl of trouble soup.

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