Get your custom business cards.
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You need a business card.
Or a calling card.
There are lots of sites on the web that will help you create one quickly, with a template, but then you have a business card that looks exactly like thousands of other business cards out there.
For just $85, I'll design your cards and have 250 full-color cards* professionally printed and mailed to you. Repeat orders of the same design will only cost you $45 (for 250). I'll even throw in a little extra, emailing you a low-res digital file of your business card so that you can use it for electronic purposes (such as attaching to your outgoing email).
Get a business card that matches your business. Unless you're selling cookie cutters, you don't want another cookie cutter design.
*Extra charges may apply for other available options, such as a gloss-finish and/or printing on the back of the card. If you currently do not have a business logo or "look" to work with, you may want to consider my help with professional design services. The $85 includes printing costs, and my layout and file work, not from-scratch logo design.
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 5/12/2008 10:25:00 AM
Design services for every conceivable project.
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Getting things designed carefully and on purpose is important.
I can help you with that. Nothing worse than badly designed materials for a business or organization trying to get ahead. Strong visual representation is vital in this visual, electronic age.
Design services come in a variety of sizes and shapes.
Some of the areas that I can assist you with your design projects include:
- Logo: Creating a logo or visual look for your business, including business forms, web site, letterheads, labels, and promotional materials.
- Business cards, etc: Developing a coherent professional package of business cards, brochures, postcards, etc. that will reflect your business or organization the best.
- Finding a service provider: Locating service providers, printers and vendors that suit your needs and budget.
- Marketing materials: Assistance in developing marketing and advertising materials that suit your business needs and budget.
- Promotional items: Design and technical assistance in putting your logo on promotional items, such as pens, mugs, etc., using reputable vendors and service providers that fit your budget and needs.
- Marketing: Consultation and idea generation on clever and unique marketing ideas and materials that are outside of the usual "box."
- T-shirt design: Get your shirt designed for any event, and either work with a vendor of your choice or locate one for you.
- Advertisements: Have eye-catching advertisements designed for newspapers, the Yellow Pages, or other publications. You gotta have an ad that stands out!
Contact me for information on pricing. I charge by the hour for most services (plus cost of printing, etc. services), so once we figure out what we need to do to get the job done, I keep a time sheet on the entire project.
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 5/12/2008 09:36:00 AM
Do you want a blog?
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I don't design full-scale web sites anymore.
I do, however, still get numerous requests for sites. Mostly from people who I know don't need anything massive and can't really afford that anyway.
I'm really big into finding ways to do things with as little expense as possible, mainly because I don't have a lot of money myself. But I'm also really big into not designing web sites from scratch and finding that I have to field emails and calls about things like "can you change the word 'the' on the main page to the word 'thee'?" each and every day.
I no longer want to sweat the small stuff. I'd rather set up something, get it all functional, and hand the reins over the the client and be done.
So, lately, I've been helping people set up blogs. This works two ways:
- Setting up a blog and then turning the reigns over to you, training you to use it.
- Setting up a custom blog template to make your blog stand out and be unique.
Option 1 (Set up your blog): Most clients might not ask for a blog outright, but after listening to the web needs of people and what they tell me when they come asking for help, I generally find that it is the perfect tool: easily add fresh content that they can update on their own, handy links and layout, and access from any internet connection.
I basically tell a client this:
- I can set you up with a blog that you won't have to pay for hosting.
- I can set you up with a place to store photos that you won't have to pay for, either.
- I can buy you a custom domain name that doesn't cost all that much in the long run, and point it to your free site.
- All I'll charge you is for the time I put into doing it for you, and any custom graphics or headers you want.
- Your expense would be the domain name (optional but preferable) and my time. That's a good deal.
So far, I've done a few:
- District 10 Representative Charles Damschen
- The Museum at Dresden
- Nicaragua Resource Network - North Dakota
- Hampden, North Dakota
- Creative Impressions
I use Wordpress in these instances because it's a little more intuitive and offers decent templates along with the static pages option; however, I'll work with any blogging platform a client wants. So, if you're not confident that you can do it yourself, I can help you set up your blog. Contact me and we'll go from there.
Option 2 ( Custom Blogger Template): I have also designed templates for people using Blogger-based blogs. Check out "Go Outside With Andrea" for an idea of what I've done. That's sort of taking the idea of "make me a blog header" one step further and decking out an entire Blogger template. I don't have the know-how to make a Wordpress template, however.
On your own: If you want to check into other ways to get online for low cost, check out:
I'll help you with any of those, too, for the same arrangement: pay me for my time.
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 4/11/2008 10:47:00 AM
So you want to self-publish something.
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I think that's great.
And, if you need help with the cover of your self-published book so that it doesn't scream "self-published" and looks like a serious book, I can help. I've mainly worked with Lulu.com, but I can whip together a front or back or wrap-around cover to meed the specs of whatever printer you're working with.
This can be accomplished either by using graphics and clip art, or having me actually draw or paint or photograph an image specifically commissioned for your book.
Let's have a look.
Pricing:
- Front cover only, using stock photos/clip art (flat rate): $45
- Front and back cover, using stock photos/clip art (flat rate): $80
- Front and back cover, using commissioned original art for front: $175
- Promotional materials for your book (digital files only; you will take them to your printer): $100
- Hourly fee for additional services: $35 (minimum, one hour, time sheet provided to you)
- Other services: Quotes available upon request
I won't proofread, typeset, or format the main body of the book for upload. But, I can help you with the graphics and placing the ISBN bar code that you may have, and even some interior graphics. I can do that. Contact me and we'll work something out.
If you're looking to set up a basic informational web site, or even your very own author web site, read here.
However, if what you really need is some direction in how to go about getting your book published or finding a company that'll do it for you, or just any direction at all, here are a few links that may help you:
- Various printers and service providers
- Links for writers
- Links for photographers (there's a section on places to print books and albums)
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 3/29/2008 05:48:00 PM
Web site design.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 0 comments link this postYes, I did design, make, and upload this LonePrairie site. All graphics are mine. I can do a little minor designing.
Periodically, I'm asked to make a web site. These are my answers to that request:
- I used to help people design web sites, back when the internet was still young and I could hold my own with the basic HTML code. As it is now, with sites heading into web 2.0, I'm not qualified for the complexity most people are looking for.
- I have problems with my hands and I do, actually, despite appearances, try to limit my computer time so that my hands don't give me problems. Web site design ends up being a tremendous amount of "stupid hands, just work why don't you?! clickety clickety mouse clickety" and so I generally decline large and arduous and pretty much all requests.
- I have helped set up sites for a few groups using Wordpress (North Dakota NRN, Museum at Dresden, Hampden, etc.). This is not, technically, design. It is merely helping people get started on something so that they can manage it for themselves. I now lean this way and work to persuade people to do it so that, once it is up and running and I've showed them how to use the system, they can take the baby home and feed it an not have to contact me for updates and bother me any more. It is fully their site and in their control. It is also a great way for these non-profit groups to get a site up with low cost that very much serves their purpose. This, I can help you with, possibly. I do expect to be compensated for the time I put in setting it up and teaching you.
- I can help you make some web site graphics. I won't do it for free.
As always, contact me with your request and we'll see if I am able to help you or not.
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 3/29/2008 04:38:00 PM
